At least here in Australia, any new bike you buy off a dealership has to meet the noise regulations, and under normal use they're almost as quiet as modern cars. The noisy ones you hear are all modified or old, perhaps both (a bike needs to be pre 1972 in Australia to be completely exempt from modern noise restrictions.)
There are even fully electric motorcycles available, but they're really not prime time "just go down to a dealer and buy one, and get it serviced everywhere" ready yet.
(Full disclosure, 2 or my 5 motorcycles have noisy exhausts. Not "hear from half a kilometer away" loud, but technically illegally loud and definitely loud enough that I take extra care arriving or departing home very late or early, out of respect for my neighbors. Interestingly for this discussion, the 3 bikes with quiet, factory stock, 100% road legal exhausts are all Japanese - in fact all Hondas. The noisy bikes are both Italian - a Ducati and a Cagiva.)
I'm just a little salty because I just went to two baseball games in kumamoto where my son was playing, and there were motorbikes somewhere, just doing laps I guess, for four hours straight. Everyone had to raise their voices when talking. I couldn't see any bikes, or even any well paved roads around the park. Just four hours straight of noise.
I will never understand why that is perfectly okay but talking loud in a restaurant will get you fired and ostracized. shrug cultural stuff I guess
> Given the body's vital requirement to maintain a core temperature of approximately 37 °C (99 °F), a sustained wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F) — equivalent to a heat index of 71 °C (160 °F) — is likely to be fatal even to fit and healthy people, semi-nude in the shade and next to a fan; at this temperature human bodies switch from shedding heat to the environment, to gaining heat from it.
in those conditions, your body can no longer cool itself down by sweating and having the sweat evaporate. simply being outside, or inside without air-conditioning, will result in potentially fatal hyperthermia.
but I'm sorry to hear that there's motorcycles driving past your house.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_...
And they really look like idiots when for example I easily pass them on my road bike in the Shonan area on road 134 because the roads are too narrow there to pass any cars even on a motorbike (mostly just the roadbikes are able to pass there), and they are just inching forward in the traffic with 2 km/h while revving their engines. Absolute losers.
And the longer summer definitely encourages these idiots to be a nuisance longer
It’d be nice if it didn’t mean the rest of summer is hotter too.
SeanAnderson•3mo ago
It's a cool piece of data because it's been tracked for over 1100 years. We don't have a ton of sources of information like that.
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"Climate change has no scientific evidence"
"Climate change is only peddled by quack researchers"
"Climate change isn't widely accepted yet"
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https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/japans-cherry-trees...
Looks like the 20 year average is around 2 April.