“BRAAPAH......”

I pull up to pump #3 at the gas-station up the street to fill the gas-can for my lawnmowers.
Suddenly behind me: “BRAAPAH; BRAP! BRAP! BRAP! BAP-BAP-BAP-BAP-BAP........”
“Uh-ohhhhh,” I think. “Sounds like one a’ that ‘loud-pipes-save-lives’ gang, arriving on his noisy Harley.”
Suddenly, deafening silence. Bap-bap has shut off so he can gas up at pump #2.
I glance over.
Surprise! It ain’t a Harley.
The cylinder-spread on that V-twin looks like 72 degrees; not the 45 degrees of a Harley.
Probably a Yamahopper.
Sure sounded like a Harley.
Harleys pass our house full throttle with no muffling at all! What a statement! “BRAAPAH......”
The speed-limit in front of our house is 40 mph. They’re probably doing 100!
Wide-open State Route 65 does a big turn southward just north of our house. Motorbikers have to slow for that turn, and then loudly assault the heavens.
Once a year the American Legion up the street holds a poker run, or is a stop on one.
89 bazilyun blatting GeezerGlides roar by, most at full song.
A chance to terrorize the cows.
“BRAP! BRAP! BRAP! BAP-BAP-BAP-BAP!” Bap-bap idles outta the gas-station.
“BRAAPAH........ BRAAPAH........ BRAAPAH........ BRAP!”
Out on 5&20 towards town, and up through the gears.

• RE: “Cylinder-spread on that V-twin looks like 72 degrees; not the 45 degrees of a Harley......” —The two cylinders of a V-twin engine are separated by 45 degrees on a Harley-Davidson, 72 degrees on a Yamaha, and 90 degrees on a Ducati (“dew-KAH-tee”).
• “Yamahopper” equals Yamaha.
• We live on NY “State Route 65” in the small rural town of West Bloomfield in Western N.Y.
• A “poker run” is a run of about 100 miles, with stops where each participant picks up a card to add to a poker hand. The participant with the winning hand at the final stop wins. —“Poker runs” are usually done with motorcycles, and usually benefit some charity.
• “GeezerGlide” is what I call all Harley Davidson ElectraGlide cruiser-bikes. My loudmouthed macho brother-from-Boston, who badmouths everything I do or say, has a very laid back Harley Davidson cruiser-bike, and, like many Harley Davidson riders, is over 50 (52). So I call it his GeezerGlide.
• “5&20” is the main east-west road (a two-lane highway) through our area; State Route 5 and U.S. Route 20, both on the same road. 5&20 is just south of where we live.