New noise regime.

[Wolf]

I'm generally opposed to having laws for practically everything, but I'm also for this particular law.

It seems they're making a fairly liberal law that looks like it will target the real nuisances for once rather than blanket cover everyone who doesn't own an electric vehicle or have three mufflers in a row on their pipe.

If it cuts down on the noisy wankers who're just being a nuisance without cutting back on those who have installed decent after-market cans that improve performance without making the vehicle sound like an approaching squadron of B52s, I say go for it.

Sick of having my house invaded by the noise of inconsiderate pricks who're using obnoxious noise as a prop for all their personal inadequacies. I have young kids who need their sleep, I need my sleep and I like to be able to hear the DVD I'm watching without having to turn up the TV to the point that the neighbours call noise control.

If people were considerate, we wouldn't need this law. But regrettably there seems to be an overabundance of wannabe gangstas who have seen Too Fast, Too Furious one too many times and seem to think that lotsa noise makes their puss-bucket rotaries and Subarus go faster. The "Image Over Substance" crowd.

If people don't want a "Nanny State" then certain sectors of society need to look to themselves and ensure they don't do things that might prompt the govt to make new laws. The gods know that the govt is quite capable of dreaming up ridiculous laws on its own without furnishing it with ideas!

Probably half the laws we have on the books wouldn't even be there if people thought of the consequences of their actions.

[Wired1]

Yes I take your point, I live out in the wop wops and the main road is 400m away and a really nice straight of about 10km so it is a popular spot for opening her up. It is OK when it is a nice vee twin rumbling away but when some of those pesky sports bikes scream along I find myself wishing the plod would camp out at the end of the road once in a while.

[Shadows]

i think they test at 5,000 rpm at one of teh 'special' testing stations with a noise tester thingamewatzit

If some arsehole sits on my bike and holds it at 5,000rpm with no load on it the fucker had better know a good dental surgeon...

[Shadows]

Noise measurement is a complete cunt anyway so I doubt these fuckwits will get it right.

Are the tests free field tests? In a dead room? Is that 100dB @ 3m?

Horseshit just like every other useless fucking law this dickhead government have introduced.

"I know how to improve NZ society, let's legalise prostitution, allow fags to get married and tax the fuck out of motorists"

Dyke bitch. I hope she fucking dies of AIDS.

"You must spread some reputation around blah blah blah...."

[Clivoris]

Am I reading this right, the Aprilia gets tested at 4000rpm yet my CR would get tested 6000? Obviously it doesnt need to be tested, but regardless . . . that seems a bit strange to me.

That seems fair to me. Anyone that resorts to owning an Italian bike is obviously a bit challenged and deserves a break from the Gumint every now and then. Still, best I avoid getting my "race use only" cans tested.

[scumdog]

If people don't want a "Nanny State" then certain sectors of society need to look to themselves and ensure they don't do things that might prompt the govt to make new laws. The gods know that the govt is quite capable of dreaming up ridiculous laws on its own without furnishing it with ideas!

Probably half the laws we have on the books wouldn't even be there if people thought of the consequences of their actions.

The trouble is that those who create the need for this type of regulation are the same ones that stand around with their mouths open saying "shit, I wonder why they brought that law in? Bloody government"

They seem not to think (Now THERE'S a true statement!) that their action might cause a reaction that they might not like. Effwits.

[Wired1]

I don't know about needing a dentist, but I have another idea - that thing looks a bit like a rectal thermometer to me...

[Lou Girardin]

If some arsehole sits on my bike and holds it at 5,000rpm with no load on it the fucker had better know a good dental surgeon...

2500 for Sporty's. Read the file.

[Squeak the Rat]

All you guys wooohooing about your bikes high redlines etc better read the instructions again. The way that I read it, the "default" rev's they use to measure are used if the tester does not have information about your bikes peak power.

So unless I've got it wrong, if they do have this information then the tester uses the rpm that is 75% of peak power. eg if your bike has peak output at 12,000rpm, then it will be tested at 9000rpm.....

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a) in the case of an engine that has a manufacturers engine speed maximum power (ESMP) that is known to the LVV certifier, 75% of that figure

[Wolf]

All you guys wooohooing about your bikes high redlines etc better read the instructions again. The way that I read it, the "default" rev's they use to measure are used if the tester does not have information about your bikes peak power.

So unless I've got it wrong, if they do have this information then the tester uses the rpm that is 75% of peak power. eg if your bike has peak output at 12,000rpm, then it will be tested at 9000rpm.....

The XT225 has no tacho. You can hook up a test tacho to it but other than that it's pure guess work. So far as the specs from Yamaha go, it red-lines at around 8.8K - based on a table that says in 6th gear 135km/h is red-lining at 8805rpm, in 4th gear 95km/h is 8790.953 rpm and deemed safe.

I guess I won't be getting any aftermarket can unless I can guarantee that it either sounds quiet to the ear or that the testing centre has the appropriate test tacho.

Not that I can afford an aftermarket can, anyway.

[scumdog]

Once again KBs resident Chicken Littles rally around the topic........

[Squeak the Rat]

Once again KBs resident Chicken Littles rally around the topic........

My sky is fine, i just like watching every one else look up.....

[Motu]

. Read the file.

It appears they can't - it's the Chinese Whisper effect....they hear a rumour and every bike in NZ has to have a new exhaust system,they make a big stink - but no one ever bothers to actualy read what is written.

[Ixion]

,, every bike in NZ has to have a new exhaust system,they make a big stink - ,,.

No, no. It's only vehicles after 1985 . And not just bikes, cars too. But bikes with standard exhausts in good condition are exempt. So it's only post 1985 bikes with after market exhausts, they'll all have to get a certificate. Better book in quickly , with only 11 certification centres (for bikes AND cars) there'll be big queues.No point waiting until you get picked up, and green stickered.

[Wolf]

The trouble is that those who create the need for this type of regulation are the same ones that stand around with their mouths open saying "shit, I wonder why they brought that law in? Bloody government"

They seem not to think (Now THERE'S a true statement!) that their action might cause a reaction that they might not like. Effwits.

Ahh, that's because it is their inalienable right to behave in an annoying or dangerous fashion. How dare people take umbrage and complain, how dare the gummint get fucked off with the complaints and carnage and make an unfair law forbidding them from doing it, how dare the pigs charge them for it, sniffle, sob, so hard done by...

I'm generally a mild person when it comes to dishing out retribution but at 4am, when jarred from my sleep by a retard in an RX7 progressing up the street by bursts of throttle rattling out through an illegally modded exhaust, I seriously feel like taking a stroll down to the prick's house and taking to the engine area with a large axe.

That said, curses do work - especially when uttered with total sincerity (and there is little in this world more sincere than a curse uttered at 4am after one's sleep has been rudely interrupted) - and the prick blew his engine up as per my desires. I had great delight coming up behind an RX7 under tow and seeing it turn into the house down the street that I had previously identified as the home of the offender.

Stupid cock. Him and others like him are responsible for a large number of the nanny laws we have here.