"Quote" So last year the department launched a $1,200 study in conjunction with the city’s risk management division to determine whether A) the louder motorcycles contributed to officers’ safety, B) were detrimental to their hearing, and C) complied with noise standards. "Unquote"

$1,200 study!!!  The bloody noise nazis here would want at least a million to say they were bloody right in the first place. Fuck em, the louder the better.

On a serious note. Where I live, apart from the normal road kill ,I've gotta dodge Kangabloodyroos. Loud pipes certainly save my life. It's not fun hittin the bastards. Did clip one 6 or 7 years ago at legal speed limits  and took his nose off. Shit my pants.

It's downright dangerous riding in NE Vic after dusk with all the vermin bouncing around... my loud pipes have moved the oversized mice out of my way enough times to know they work.......

Doing quite a bit of rural riding after dark, I would agree with loud pipes letting the roos know you're coming,

But to me they really come into their own in traffic, with the modern cages, and drivers lack of perception as to whats around them (if its not in front of you, its not there)  the pipes I have on the Road King are loud enough to let everyone know I'm around, and I will keep it that way, to me its a survival thing!

I'm not entirely sure of my current Db reading, but it's the one where you go for a quiet ride through the city and paddywagons start chasing you from 3 blocks away.

Just for information....

If you want to get a ICV (independent constructed Vehicle) registered in NSW and it is a bike, you have to actually pass a drive by noise test in 3rd and 4th gear at WOT and 40-50 kms and be averaging 80dB or less. The stationary test is the easy one to meet. The drive by is the challenge..

Cheers

Mick

Ah..... the 'ol snowball affect

Do Roo shoo-ers work with wallabies? The $64 question!

Maybe how we beat the All Blacks the other night

I've got Vance & Hines Big Radius (2-2), SERT and the SE AC on my 07 Deuce. I got a letter from the EPA (Victoria) a few months back advising a member of Victoria's fattest had reported my bike to the EPA on suspicion of failing to comply with the allowable noise ordinace i.e. exceeding 94Db. Thinking back i do recall exactly where i was and did give it some off the lights, but as i backed off around 55kph i'd bet you the donut he was eating that since he couldn't issue me a speeding ticket he's noted the rego and sent it off to the EPA.

The EPA notice required my bike to be tested at one of their accedited testers (see EPA website for the listing) within 28 days. Testing cost was >$40... cost to remove the BR, install the stock pipes, ride to the tester, get test, then ride back to the dealer and reinstall the BR was about $400. For the record, the BR were tested at 103Db... just a touch over. Considering i was in an industrial area, on a weekend when i was "spotted" what a wank. And the LEO's wonder why people have such a low opinion of them.

So much for compliance plates .......... put my '08 FXDF over the pits today and there is no compliance plate fitted!!!! But had to go buy a $1 red reflector for the rear end, the guy who did it was a bike rider himself and said lots of new bikes don't have them fitted.

keeps the cagers guessing where you are until they see you, then they get out of your space.