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They roar mostly by night, speeding through city streets and rocketing along thoroughfares, leaving behind deafening decibels of unnecessary noise. They disturb the peace, annoy thousands and often run in packs of young men living out fast and furious fantasies.

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Why they get away with it is beyond me.

Motorcycles with rigged and often illegal exhaust systems can be observed and heard everywhere. They ride up and down the Yonge Street strip, especially on weekend nights, revving and pumping their over-powered engines, or along Kingston Road in Scarborough, through the main arteries of Brampton, and along local Toronto streets on their way to or from the Don Valley Speedway.

I have seen and heard these rumbling and screeching vehicles — Yamahas, Hondas, Harley-Davidsons — in all these locations, but especially outside my downtown condo building, which happens to be on one of the main routes out of town for motorcyclists who have rattled eardrums along Yonge or slowly growled through Yorkville and are now heading back to the ‘burbs from which they came.