Vehicle noise tests - New rules

[xwhatsit]

Another Harley owner that hates me, (sigh) never mind, I can handle it. Be safe and have a happy and prosperous new year to you RDJ

Honda rider sez: I think you're a twat too

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Like anything else, it all comes down to enforcement. I've got clip-ons instead of normal bars (through triple-clamp bar clamp thingies). Against the rules. WoF tester thinks the welds are good -- and he used to have a 250RS with a 500 motor when he was a youngster. So I get a pass.

There was a Vespa running up and down Parnell Rd last night (or the night before?) with a guy and a girl with no helmet. On the footpath. No headlight. Police car drove past and kept on going.

I think most people who are being reasonable (if in the grey area of the law) will continue to find ways around the law. What worries me is what you see on a larger scale in the US with things like the PATRIOT Act. Slow, small changes, but that eventually add up to grievous erosions of personal choice. If they continue to make small changes like this, individually they're nothing to worry about, but they add up.

[huck farley]

Honda rider sez: I think you're a twat too

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Me thinks that the Honda rider is a bigger twat!!

[FJRider]

None. The objective noise test must be done by a LVV certifier approved for that purpose. Normal WoF places can't do it.

There are a grand total of two (yep, two) such certifiers for the Auckland district. Expect lonnnnngggggg wait times!

If the WOF tester thinks your bike is over the noise limit,it will have to be proved by YOU is not. THUS YOU get it tested,at your cost, AND no WOF untill you do.
Bike shops will have to be seen to OBEY the reg's, or testing authorisation would be cancelled.

[Motu]

Yep - first AVI that gets dragged through the vat of acid because he passed a system that was later found to be too loud will start a domino effect.That means no one will pass a remotely non standard system.You hold the key.Use your brains.

[sAsLEX]

Yep - first AVI that gets dragged through the vat of acid because he passed a system that was later found to be too loud will start a domino effect.That means no one will pass a remotely non standard system.You hold the key.Use your brains.

Keep the standard system for WOF time!

[FJRider]

Keep the standard system for WOF time!

Yep. or put the baffles back in.

[Ocean1]

Yep. or put the baffles back in.

Which, (I understand) have to be welded in.

Good eh?

[huck farley]

I have a Remus aftermarket on my triple. Sounds sweet. Went for my first wof But before I did I slipped the removable baffle in. took me 5 minutes. (No welding at all. It is retained by a huge cir clip) The removable baffle reduces the note by a good 50% as a result my can never even raised an eyebrow. And my bike just flew through.


Mitre ten will selling a heap of chicken wire as one bloke commented on as a solution to quieter exhausts. But those Idiots that drilled the original pipes out on their swines, will need more than chicken wire to shut em up!! HD (hand over your dollars) will be rubbing their hands together as a few new exhausts will be sold!!

[homer]

when i got my bike it dont have any original pipes just the scorpion
hey not my problem , just got a wof yeaserday and nothing even said about to much noise

I dont think its to loud anyways

[Ocean1]

Which, (I understand) have to be welded in.

Good eh?

I slipped the removable baffle in. took me 5 minutes. (No welding at all. It is retained by a huge cir clip)

If the new regulations state that all baffles must be welded in place sooner or later you'll get a failed WOF, whether the circlip was standard issue or not.

[scumdog]

Mitre ten will selling a heap of chicken wire as one bloke commented on as a solution to quieter exhausts. But those Idiots that drilled the original pipes out on their swines, will need more than chicken wire to shut em up!! HD (hand over your dollars) will be rubbing their hands together as a few new exhausts will be sold!!

MY 'mufflers'?

As mentioned, a stock Harley muffler with the tapered end section cut off and a tasty stainless end cap held in place with equally tasty stainless button-head allen bolts (Take not of that McJim!).

No chicken wire, no 'packing', no 'removable baffles' - just a hollow can.

No problem with a WOF - the tester even said it was quieter than half the Buells he tested.

[Ocean1]

No problem with a WOF - the tester even said it was quieter than half the Buells he tested.

Trouble is SD, if any tester or any cop decides it's "too noisy" then under the proposed rules they can require you to have the system certified. At your cost, compliant or not. And perhaps again next week.

Now, if the "complainant"/tester/constabulary responsible for the order to test the system was also responsible for the cost of the certification maybe I'd think it was a better piece of legislation.

[talicachick]

You don't have to be Einstein to work out that the idiots riding Harley's with straight pipes, have fucked it up for everyone.

When will these no brainers wake up. First thing they do when they buy a new piece of shit Harley, is to put a fukn great drill up the pipes. So now they have this shimmering, shaking, jack hammer, piece of gutless, shiney, shit roaring it's heads of, the fact still remains that they are a gutless heap of shit, that wouldn't pull a soldier of your sister.

OK, now that they have pissed everyone of, with the racket they make. The law makers are bringing in new laws that fuck it for everyone.

Harley owners want shooting with a ball of their own shit. IMO
grrrrrrrrr!!
Huck Farley

Not all harley owners look at switching pipes. I have factory pipes on mine and have a sweet sound. I do agree ther open straight pipes sound like a piece of shit, and are just feckin noise for noise sake and a real look at moie attitude. Dont group us all in the same boat huck cos some of us just get harleys cos they are what we like to ride.. it dosent matter what ppl ride we all enjoy it. Just some ruin it for everyone... id rather not be shot wit a wad of my own shit thanks..

[Rogue]

Dont just pick on Harley's there are a few jappa and Itie V twin owners out there who should be worried and what about the old brit twins some of them can be loud,not to mention the neighbours dog, truck exhaust brakes, my wife's snoring.............:katman: