Excessive noise?

[myvice]

Wasn’t so much the noise level bollix that concerned me, we all knew it was on its way...
It’s the $250 and the 10 points for having a loud car/bike!
The fine would piss anyone off but to have an over zealous cop do you for that as well as speeding and you could be walking for a while!
It’s odd that no one has ever been killed (to my knowledge) by an overly noisy bike, but you lose 10 points.
And yet they allow cell phones to be used with out any punishment at all?
Who ever dreamt up this needs to live in the real world for a bit!
I don’t mind them wanting to quieten us down within reason, but I thought they would have bigger issues than this?

[davereid]

This is just another of the "attitude test" laws. ie suck up to the cop and you may ride off $80 & 10 points richer.

Testing noise levels is very tricky, you have to eliminate background noise, echos, etc etc... so its just more moronic crap from helen and her socialists.

I understand they are going to have about 6 approved testing sites nationwide, so if you live rurally cheaper to cop the points.

As usual, it will do nothing of value, it'll just make the cops more hated.

Sic Semper Tyrannis
(Death to All Tyrants)

-- Virginia State Motto --

[Kyle]

All this mention of background noise interests me. I mean surely no background noise or engine noise will be louder then the exhaust itself? unless you happen to get pulled over and tested while in the mosh-pit of a rock concert i guess.

[Lou Girardin]

All this mention of background noise interests me. I mean surely no background noise or engine noise will be louder then the exhaust itself? unless you happen to get pulled over and tested while in the mosh-pit of a rock concert i guess.

Noise is cumulative. Tha's why accurate testing needs a noise free environment.
If a C.U.N.T is conducting a test and a bus goes past, you will fail.

[James Deuce]

If another bike rode past you'd fail.

Noise is an incredibly subjective thing. A cello puts out a consistently greater noise level than a drum kit. Drums are all transient peaks in terms of sound levels making the kit appear louder thanks to the brief transitions from no noise to lots of noise. Yet, everyone would agree that a drum kit is louder than a cello. Its dB peaks are. Its spl isn't.

I would suspect the poor bloody cops being made to do this testing will be given training in how the testing gear works, not about the difference between decibels and sound pressure, or the effect ambient noise has on overall spl and dB peaks.

I have a gripe with bike maufacturers and the goody two shoes lecturing about after market exhaust systems. Why does the stock item have to be so freaking heavy? The TRX cans were 9.5kg apiece! The Z750S connector pipe and exhaust can was 11kg! I replaced that with a Micron connector pipe and canister that weighed 4.5kg in total and is only appreciably louder in the last third of the rpm range. Plus the bike runs a whole heap better. O, thats right! It wouldn't have anything to do with bogus noise regulations introduced because so many GS750/850/1000 riders ran round with open pipes in the '70s would it?