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AMA supports new sound test standard

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acecycleins · 06-19-2009, 11:17 AM

Yep- I can see Joe Patrol holding the meter i inch from the pipe- dead center. "Son, your bike's too loud. We're gonna have to impound it."
How do you argue that? Cops aren't going to worry about placement of the dB meter. Hopefully, cops just won't care at all, but I see bad things from this.

seruzawa · 06-19-2009, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by acecycleins

Yep- I can see Joe Patrol holding the meter i inch from the pipe- dead center. "Son, your bike's too loud. We're gonna have to impound it."
How do you argue that? Cops aren't going to worry about placement of the dB meter. Hopefully, cops just won't care at all, but I see bad things from this.

Ace, I've seen the annual cop bike rally the Salt Lake County cops host each year. I doubt I've seen that many open drag piped Harleys in one place.

MOKE1K · 06-19-2009, 11:37 AM

Great what now safty inspection stations?

acecycleins · 06-19-2009, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by MOKE1K

Great what now safty inspection stations?

Yep- You roll in once a yr and pay $10 for a sticker that states you're in EPD/DOT compliance.

I'll be opening my shop this fall. 1 dB meter and a computer to print the stickers. Open for buisiness for under $1000.

pushrod · 06-19-2009, 12:56 PM

Hey, there's another beer!

"Ace Holes Tailpipe Stout"

And another one I thought of: "Ace Holes Cylinder Head Porter"

MOKE1K · 06-19-2009, 01:14 PM

When I inspected in Hawaii everyone and their brother would come to us because we'd over-look the fact that they had an after market exhaust installed. When I'd ask my boss about them catching us he'd reply" Just tell'em they had a stock one when I gave them the inspection? I did them all, he never did any of the inspections.

acecycleins · 06-19-2009, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by pushrod

Hey, there's another beer!

"Ace Holes Tailpipe Stout"

And another one I thought of: "Ace Holes Cylinder Head Porter"

Ace Holes Injected Ale, Ace Holes Triple X Stout, Ace Holes Dragon Chaser Pilsner, Ace Holes Knee Down Lager, Ace Holes Dubbel Apex Belgian.....

sarnali2 · 06-19-2009, 01:49 PM

Once again, why spend money on a bullsh*t program when you have federal regulations covering this already in place. Any street motorcycle sold since at least 1980 has an EPA stamp on the silencer stating it's a violation to tamper with the intake or exhaust in such a way as to increase noise over 88dba....infact I think they lowered it to 80dba. All officer friendly has to do is look at the exhaust. No stamp and you're in violation, simple as that.

It's like these "No street racing" zones in industrial areas, you already have a posted speed limit, if you're exceeding that then you're speeding., 20mph over the posted limit is reckless driving....why f*ck around writing 300 laws to cover the same god dam* thing? Idiots I swear and we voted for these dildos?

MOKE1K · 06-19-2009, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by sarnali2

Once again, why spend money on a bullsh*t program when you have federal regulations covering this already in place. Any street motorcycle sold since at least 1980 has an EPA stamp on the silencer stating it's a violation to tamper with the intake or exhaust in such a way as to increase noise over 88dba....infact I think they lowered it to 80dba. All officer friendly has to do is look at the exhaust. No stamp and you're in violation, simple as that.

It's like these "No street racing" zones in industrial areas, you already have a posted speed limit, if you're exceeding that then you're speeding., 20mph over the posted limit is reckless driving....why f*ck around writing 300 laws to cover the same god dam* thing? Idiots I swear and we voted for these dildos?

Anything to make more red tape!

06-19-2009, 10:34 AM	#1
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06-19-2009, 11:17 AM	#2
acecycleins Founding Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: North Georgia Posts: 4,125	Yep- I can see Joe Patrol holding the meter i inch from the pipe- dead center. "Son, your bike's too loud. We're gonna have to impound it." How do you argue that? Cops aren't going to worry about placement of the dB meter. Hopefully, cops just won't care at all, but I see bad things from this. __________________ "Slack" - a state of being in which everything flows smoothly.....a frame of mind so at ease that the universe naturally cooperates.

06-19-2009, 11:37 AM	#4
MOKE1K Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Kalapana, Big Island Posts: 3,935	Great what now safty inspection stations? __________________ "YOU CAN'T BOLT ON SKILL" "The only thing limiting your bike, is you" We survived Bush you'll survive Obama! "the most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive." --thomas sowell

06-19-2009, 12:56 PM	#6
pushrod Founding Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Baja 'Bama Posts: 3,424	Hey, there's another beer! "Ace Holes Tailpipe Stout" And another one I thought of: "Ace Holes Cylinder Head Porter" __________________ You would not understand, this is not how I am... I have become - Comfortably Numb.

06-19-2009, 01:14 PM	#7
MOKE1K Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Kalapana, Big Island Posts: 3,935	When I inspected in Hawaii everyone and their brother would come to us because we'd over-look the fact that they had an after market exhaust installed. When I'd ask my boss about them catching us he'd reply" Just tell'em they had a stock one when I gave them the inspection? I did them all, he never did any of the inspections. __________________ "YOU CAN'T BOLT ON SKILL" "The only thing limiting your bike, is you" We survived Bush you'll survive Obama! "the most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive." --thomas sowell

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06-19-2009, 01:49 PM	#9
sarnali2 Aging Cafe` Racer Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Sittin' down by my window, lookin' at the rain. Posts: 7,960	Once again, why spend money on a bullsht program when you have federal regulations covering this already in place. Any street motorcycle sold since at least 1980 has an EPA stamp on the silencer stating it's a violation to tamper with the intake or exhaust in such a way as to increase noise over 88dba....infact I think they lowered it to 80dba. All officer friendly has to do is look at the exhaust. No stamp and you're in violation, simple as that. It's like these "No street racing" zones in industrial areas, you already have a posted speed limit, if you're exceeding that then you're speeding., 20mph over the posted limit is reckless driving....why fck around writing 300 laws to cover the same god dam* thing? Idiots I swear and we voted for these dildos? __________________ "Carpe` Throttelum -Loud Suits Save Lives" "All the BMW riders in the room, I want you to leave. Now. Out. "