http://www.amadirectlink.com/news/story.asp?id=609

"The single greatest threat to motorcycling in America -- both on- and off-highway, including ATVs -- is excessive exhaust sound. Nearly everyone we talk to in the motorcycling and OHV (off-highway vehicle) community echoes this concern."

"We need to lead by example and convey the idea that it is totally unacceptable to ride an obnoxiously loud machine. Next, we have to stop installing unmuffled exhaust systems on our bikes. Thundering cruisers with straight pipes, howling sport bikes with competition exhausts, and barking dirt bikes and OHVs with unpacked silencers have no place on our public streets and trails."

Riiiiiight, the greatest threat to bikes isn't facktarded cagers who can't drive, and faschist liberal do-gooders, it's the sound of my bike. Of course. The AMA wonders why it has dwindling membership