ICE motorcycle engines are incredibly loud. Going electric therefore makes them harder to spot.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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Also worth noting that outside of war motorcyles are incredibly loud too, and I hate them for it, why can't my big ass car make more noise than a tiny ICE engine?
What the hell kind of nonsense normalized motorcycles with zero effective noise mitigation on them?
My least favorite experience while standing on top of a beautiful mountain is managing to still somehow hear a stupid Harley Davidson from like 30km away accelerating onto the highway. When your silly midlife crisis vehicle with a tiny engine makes more noise than 18-wheelers engaging their jake breaks, you are officially an asshole.
I can't wait for the day motorcyles are all electric, the amount of silence that has been arbitrarily demolished by unnecessarily loud motorcyle engines is suffocating lol.
Daaaang, somebody needs to clone that trailer design for ebikes. A flatbed with an optional waterproof cargo container would be sick. Axle looks kinda pinner tho
Kinda looks like a car topper on a small bike trailer. Probably wouldn't be too tough to make one.
They know it's not oil. But they have the necessity of stretching that oil as far as they possibly can.
I don't disagree with that assessment, but from that perspective one of the broad longterm drivers for the onset of full-on-war in 2022 was driven by the structural dead end that russia set itself up with with regards to the green energy transition leaving them in the dust with hardly any domestic industry focused on it.
Setting themselves up to fail, they could only see Europe's attempt to begin to slowly move away from dependence on fossil fuels, russia's included, as a direct impetus to war because they were already out of options.
In other words, launching the "3 day special military operation" was part of that stretching.
These were choices russia made and committed to in their stupidity that made the warpath the only path they would accept in their hubris.