Bike noise

[Motu]

Thanks....now I feel like nothing.....

[Pixie]

I wonder how many standard bikes will pass the test then.......

Interesting only 6 hoon spots in NZ......

Read it again.
If it is standard,it will be the same sound level as a standard example of the model.

Ipso fatso ; it will pass.

[hunt]

If its too loud, your too old.

If its too loud your not going fast enough

[hunt]

and if it cant go fast enough its too loud

[Morepower]

I think there should be a dual rule , There should be an apraisal for quality of noise, a nice V twin or V8 car fine

Obnoxious 4 cylinder noise outlawed

[Skyryder]

If its too loud, your too old.

Life is strange. The older you get the deafer you get. The deafer you get the less you can tolerate noise. One day you will understand this.


Skyryder

[ZeroIndex]

If a cop says your bike is too loud, tell him to wear your helmet and/or earplugs and then see if he says its too loud... I agree on the noisy exhausts on cars thing, but all bikes (even GNs) sound better than all the crappy rice racers

[Troll]

I think there should be a dual rule , There should be an apraisal for quality of noise, a nice V twin or V8 car fine

Obnoxious 4 cylinder noise outlawed

common sense spoken at last

[marty]

I think there should be a dual rule , There should be an apraisal for quality of noise, a nice V twin or V8 car fine

Obnoxious 4 cylinder noise outlawed

obviously haven't heard a yoshi'd/remus'd/micron'd (yes i know they're not real words....) busa on-song as it flashes past you then?

[idb]

I've got noisy exhausts (is there anything more beautiful than the sound of Contis on a bevel twin?) but I make a point of keeping the revs down when I'm going through a residential area.
Not everyone shares my appreciation and unless the listeners are appreciative why would I want to piss them off?

The boy racer law is a perfect example of the reaction to idiots being idiots and shitting in their own nests.
If you like noisy that's fine, just don't piss other people off, it's rude and ultimately counter-productive.

[Paul in NZ]

My wonderful Moto Guzzi has a noisy exhaust. 26 years of thud thud thudding away have destroyed the baffles to the point where they all fell out of the inlet pipe (I kid you not) although I had to help some of the bigger bits 'cos they were rattling about...

It's pretty loud, but not annoyingly so (or so I'm told)... However, if we were getting all measurery, it would fail a 90dB test with new stock mufflers 'cos my Mk2 was not equipped with air filters when new, has a top end rattle that scares Hondas and whines from the straight cut gear box like a fishmongers wife on P...

The Triumphs a little better... It has reproduction mufflers which are slightly quieter than stock but the duplex primary chain makes an unholy racket...

I like a nice exhaust note, always have, always will...

BUT...

I don't tear around my street like a moron at 3am, I don't start the bike in the shed (tune up time) after 9pm because the young fella next door has school the next day and I've been know to coast past horses with the throttle shut on country roads (which usually gets a very positive 'thank you')

It's about being reasonable surely.. Something the young struggle with.

On Sunday, the virgin pillion and I decided to take a stroll up through our nearest bush reserve hill thingy to let the dog show us just how unfit we really are.. We were a good 5km as the crow flies from SH1 and about 750m up vertically in the bush. SH1 could be heard as a low rustle of traffic...

What was the one vehicle you could hear EVERY time.. Yup! HD's with big pipes and no baffles, clear as anything (and trucks with engine brakes). It was worse than rotaries... (an ain't nuttin worse dan dem)

There is noise as in, thass a nicea noise and there is ear bleeding insanity that just plain pisses other people off! At 3am.... And I can understand that..

So sure... Keep up with the moronic noise making you young fellas (On HD's??)... Soon we will all be enjoying our wiffle o matics....

[Ixion]

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It's pretty loud, but not annoyingly so (or so I'm told)... However, if we were getting all measurery, it would fail a 90dB test with new stock mufflers 'cos my Mk2 was not equipped with air filters when new, has a top end rattle that scares Hondas and whines from the straight cut gear box like a fishmongers wife on P...
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Good point that, air intake can be as loud on some bikes as the zorst. Phoebe has a REALLY loud intake noise, a sort of loud whoooming drone if I open the throttles wide at low revs, that completely drowns out the exhaust note (and that ain't quiet)

Petal, oddly, does not do it. Go figure. Of course there's not much around louder than Petal's ringa-dinga-BLOODY_BIG_DINGA-ding. A 750cc two stroke is never going to be quiet, if they bring in rules I may have to invest in some Pink Batts.

But, as Mr Paul in NZ said, I don't make a neighbourhood pest of myself with it.

Gotta admit though, when I was young, there was a certain Jawa....

[ZeroIndex]

I know what you mean about neighbourhood pests... I live at the bottom of a roundabout (on the side that goes up a hill) on an averagely busy street. Get a lot of dumb boy-racers going past at all times of the day, night, early morning etc, including the odd wannabe drifter. They all piss me off imensely, but whenever I hear a bike, I stop whatever I'm doing for the couple of seconds it takes to go past... MMMMMM, I love the sound of bikes

[imdying]

Kwaka induction noise is arguably more addictive than exhaust noise anyway...

One of the coolest things I've seen from a bike was a ZX12R at Ruapuna. It sat on the line (drags), lights went green, bike took off. No noise, no nothing, just a 10 second pass. It was disturbingly quick n quiet.

Noise laws aren't the end of biking, they're well able to build a quick n quiet bike. Whether you take on the law with an aftermarket or modified pipe will still be up to you though

Definitely can see trouble for them though... induction noise and those ghey show off valves are pretty noise too...

[Motu]

When I was a young fulla,my mother used to say on a sunday morning - ''When you come home at 3.00am,do you have to ride around all the local streets before you come up our street? I can hear it all the way around the block,that bike of your's is very noisey y'know?''

Being young is all about being the centre of a very small universe...flying outwards at high speed from the Big Bang.