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The Rock
8/8/2016 11:17am
8/8/2016 11:17am
Say what?
Certain venues the sound testing procedure actually aggravates the neighbors (Petco being a prime example) so in these cases sound testing is actually counter productive.
My vote is to go to more random testing at these particular venues. Keep up the heavy testing at the first couple of SX races for both East/West series but then transition to random.
All sounds hunky dory yeah? It is but things get sticky when the subject of post race sound testing is brought up so we will save that nugget for a rainy day.
Certain venues the sound testing procedure actually aggravates the neighbors (Petco being a prime example) so in these cases sound testing is actually counter productive.
My vote is to go to more random testing at these particular venues. Keep up the heavy testing at the first couple of SX races for both East/West series but then transition to random.
All sounds hunky dory yeah? It is but things get sticky when the subject of post race sound testing is brought up so we will save that nugget for a rainy day.
I mean they sound test every time at my B class races here in tiny Finland.
AMA's Tim McAdams and others have a good ear for flagging offenders during practice. It is my perception (can't say it is reality) there isn't much post race sound testing. More on that as I get more edumacated.
The Shop
Don't get me started on Lurch's screaming at the starts.
Don't give such well off promoters any leeway, nor to the teams.
Less noise testing, suggested by a bloke that I've deduced has a bit to do with noise attenuation systems, seems strange, Rock.
I read, fairly often, people complaining about noise levels at SXs, so very often, people that are pretty devoted to Motorcycles, at that.
Bikes can sound great, without being obnoxious. Noise levels should be reduced. The company / manufacturer that can get noise levels down, while still getting great power, well, more power to them ( please excuse the deliberate pun).
People are farther away from the bikes now!
I like drag racing, nascar, monster trucks.....does Feld do sound testing on Monster Trucks?
Btw, I'm not saying sound testing should be eliminated based on our current state...I'm stating the progress I've noticed the past few years and that I like these improvements.
SX / MX, at the highest levels, have a very direct relationship with the Bikes ridden by the Dirt Bike riding public. Noise is one of the main things the mongrels who want to restrict our sport
, target.
The highest levels of the sport, need to be a good / better influence on the 'general' levels of the sport.
I love the sound of IC dirt bikes, but not obnoxiously loud ones. That old saying / decal from the 70s, "less sound = more ground" should still be promoted.
Yes, the pricks who want to stifle / stop our sport have found many other reasons and ways to do so, but giving them such an easy target, with overly loud Bikes, shows 'our' general idiocy. Perhaps we deserve to be so targeted, with, seemingly, so many loving their obnoxiously loud Bikes, and being so proud of the racket they produce?
As I've said , I love the sound of IC Engines, but we seem intent on shooting ourselves in the figurative foot, by having overly loud Bikes / races.
Perhaps the simplest thing to do, would be to sound test the Bikes In the Stadium, and not out in areas that lead to complaints from those outside of the Stadiums, that The Rock seems to be mainly on about? Surely that could be done?
Pit Row
Most people are upset that F1 has had the sound reduced by the electric additions.
The yelling in some of the football stadiums by the fans for 2 hours is louder than moto.
SX Motos are 5 to 18 minutes, I miss 42 2 strokes singing wide open in the outdoors.
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