Noise Cameras?? Oh yes! Check this out

[spudchucka]

Would noise also be the reason that HD use belt rather than chain on their bikes?

Perhaps they just shake and vibrate so much a chain just keeps falling off the sprockets??

[Lou Girardin]

Hope NZ follows Victorias lead and refunds some $14 million in fines dues to faulty speed cameras. Also another $6 million to people who have lost there license as a result of incorrect speed cameras.

Nah, not a hope. Even if NZ speed cameras were faulty the Govt would bang through some legislation declaring them, like the Pope, infallible.

No way, if Insp John Kelly is typical of Police hierachy, he maintains that our Stalkers are more accurate than the manufacturer does. Then goes on to confuse K and Ka band frequencies. (Autocar December)

[spudchucka]

No way, if Insp John Kelly is typical of Police hierachy, he maintains that our Stalkers are more accurate than the manufacturer does. Then goes on to confuse K and Ka band frequencies. (Autocar December)

I wouldn't think Inspector Kelly would be overly concerned about how the things work, as in what band they utilise. He should only be concerned that the things do work and are being used as per the manufacturers guidlines. It isn't as if he is out there issuing tickets.

[pete376403]

There is a song called "My God, how the money rolls in" to the music of "MY Bonnie" This verse seems appropriate:

My mother asks home politicians
To play in a night full of sin.
My father pops in with a camera.
My God, how the money rolls in!
Chorus
Rolls in, rolls in, my god how the money rolls in, rolls in!
Rolls in, rolls in, my god, how the money rolls in!

[danb]

I think it’s a good idea if it can work properly.

I am sick of the bloody hoons in their cars revving the shit out of them and doing burnouts down my road.

Instead of cameras use people. There are plenty of the unemployed in Auckland etc to do this and would be more accurate in the first place.

I also think there should be some rules in what type of exhaust system you have on you car.. Good test to have when you get your warrent.

[pete376403]

How loud is loud? How are you going to measure it? How much noise is background / how much is the vehicle? What if there's more than one vehicle, on who's authority are you going to get all the others shut down? And so on.
There are too many worms in that particular can.

[Coldkiwi]

I think it’s a good idea if it can work properly.

I am sick of the bloody hoons in their cars revving the shit out of them and doing burnouts down my road.

Instead of cameras use people. There are plenty of the unemployed in Auckland etc to do this and would be more accurate in the first place.

I also think there should be some rules in what type of exhaust system you have on you car.. Good test to have when you get your warrent.

2 things....
1) measuring sound is not as easy as you would think. uneducated people are not the best choice. I've been doing it for 2.5 years now and I still make mistakes
2) there are rules on exhaust noise... do a search on the site and you will find some very long and informative threads about the whole shooting match. It came up last year and was obviously of concern to a lot of us.

[spudchucka]

All that is needed is clear and concise legislation, (bloody near an impossibility in this country) and an easily understood set of guidlines for exhaust modification. Just testing noise is too subjective unless it is in a controlled environment, (unless it is a rotary with a big bore, they should be written off the road because they sound bloody awful).

[danb]

All that is needed is clear and concise legislation, (bloody near an impossibility in this country) and an easily understood set of guidlines for exhaust modification. Just testing noise is too subjective unless it is in a controlled environment, (unless it is a rotary with a big bore, they should be written off the road because they sound bloody awful).

I just think when a "supped" car goes buy what a bloody fool, Seriously they spend all there money on there cars and what does it prove. Big Sweet nothing. Its not so bad when you have heeps in the bank, you have a house, makeing ends meet very nicely etc. I mostly refer to the people in there teens and 20's etc. I mean for bikers its like a learner on an R1 or ebullient as well. They have all these magic cars and what do they do... End up round a power poll and annoy the bloody residents of this country.

Its the trouble with teenagers they are all like sheep, want to copy each other and having to prove them selves to each other. I’m only 18 and I just think its joke. I have a Toyota corolla 1.3l "tank" (shit in the steering ) and I just drive the thing. Its luckily if it even get a wash every month . I have done no modifications or anything to it either. I couldn’t give a shit if some one laughs at me saying I drive heap of shit around town. It does the job and that’s all I it need to do.
Sure people take pride in there hobbies and stuff like that, just the same as Bikers would do, but casing a nucence in the community and putting other people on the road at risk is just going too far.

[PZR]

wouldn't have thought so given how much racket the dman things make anyway. Dunno what the advantages in a belt are other than less cleaning?

I think they have belts so they do not have to clean all that excess chain lube off the shiney bits. Sounds like too much hard work to me.

SHAFT DRIVE RULES!!! Oooooh Yeah