invading illegal alien hordes destroying the state, OK... loud pipes, off with their headsMH ping!
You think you should be allowed to make as much noise as you like?
Hell no.
I’m amazed at the sound levels some bikers get away with. Pretty sure that any car making that much noise would be pulled over and ticketed.
I still remember a group of yuppie bikers revving their fancy bikes in a national park. Obnoxious as hell!
If you thought soccer moms didn’t look out for motorcycles now, just wait.
79 db's NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know.
It sometimes seems that liberalism is at its simplest, nothing more than an ideological hostility, to testosterone.
It’s not the pipes the SOBs object to. It’s the men on the bikes. Too manly. Too rough. Not fagotty enough, sissy enough, liberal enough, or scared of their own shadows. Libs aren’t going to be happy until half the women are butch and all the men are faggots. It’s easy to see which way we’re going. Look for them eventually to outlaw urinals, and peeing while standing.
Unnecessary law...just enforce existing law...aftermarket pipes/headers are already regulated by CARB and the California Vehicle Code:
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/vc/tocd12c5a2_5.htm
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/aftermkt/motorcycle1/motorcycle1.htm#Q1
Problem is that nobody is writing tickets for violations of existing law...so the pressure for additional law rises.
Girly Gov’s last hurrah!
Horrible law. I gave up my motorcycle long ago after a minor accident. But . . . I took some of the baffles out of the muffler for safety reasons. Cars hear you even if they can’t see you.
Yesterday I was using a plastic gas can to fill up a dirtbike.
Because some dumbass from the gub mint mandated that cans can have NO breather hole like they use to it takes forever.
This is the kind of crap the gubmint has NO business getting in to.
Get the gub mint off our backs and out of our walletts.
One more thing Terrence, 2002 H.D. Electraglide here.
‘10 Electra Glide. Well we bikers can be good neighbors or not. I worked in Navy engine rooms for 20 years - ear plugs and all and noise of any sort bothers me. My hearing is very good considering. So on my street is a house where a woman lives who has parties mid-week all hours of the night. These parties generally include a bunch of bikers on Harley, Victory, and other v-twin bikes - many of them have removed the mufflers for straight pipes.
I have a job and can’t party on Tuesday till 2 AM so it pretty much pisses me off when these folks leave the party and have no consideration for me or anyone else on the street. The cops are never around at 2 AM by the way.
At off hours I roll my bike to the street before I start it and almost idle out of the neighborhood. I am considerate of others.
Most bikers are, but there is that small minority (I don’t give a damn if you like the noise or not attitude) who have created this problem. The solution to the problem will affect everyone, not just the inconsiderate.
This has nothing to do with manliness, or macho, or being a biker - it has to do with being a neighbor and consideration.
I expect all states will eventually have such laws which will be enforced and if just enforced on Harley’s then it is because a few inconsiderate asses brought it upon ourselves.
Loud pipes = gangsta rap. Deal with it.
Try a little personal responsibility in that cup of freedom your drinking from.
Many are clearly exceeding a reasonable decibel limit. I rode bikes for years and love them but in our downtown some of the bikes are so loud you have to pause your conversation.
I am not for making them quiet as a purring Honda but there are limits and I am not a communist for supporting them.
invading illegal alien hordes destroying the state, OK... loud pipes, off with their headsI want a tiny government that’s out of our hair, but I can hardly express my level of contempt for those guys who go blasting that noise across everyone else’s property.
In this case, good for CA!
