SOCAL Riders read this!!!!
SOCAL Riders read this!!!!
Isee this guys on their ST1300 scoping out riders, speciall on week-ends.
WATCH OUT!
Guess where me and my boys wont be going any more.
We will spend not a penny in that area.
Anaheim police have gotten serious about loud bikes.
California - The thundering roar of motorcycles racing up and down Imperial Highway could be reduced to a whisper, thanks to a crackdown by Anaheim police and a little-known federal law.
Motorcyclists with illegally loud exhaust systems began receiving citations on Imperial Highway in Anaheim Hills after weeks of warnings.
Anaheim Police Sgt. Mike Zigmund gave a final notice to about 60 bikers at Keno's restaurant the weekend of July 14.
"We told them that this was the last warning," he said. "They were pretty cooperative."
Armed with a decibel meter, resident Ellie Oliver measured the sound of passing bikers. "The noise was deafening," she said. "I recorded readings of 115 to 135 decibels," – 34 to 54 points above the city's 81-decibel exterior noise limit.
This month, Zigmund and his crew took their own readings and began citing bikers.
"The meter really isn't necessary," he said. "The courts have said that most cops can tell which pipes are legal and which aren't."
Anaheim resident Todd Hamo, a representative of Noise Free America's Orange County chapter, said decibel meter readings "have been called into question in court."
"But," he said," there is an Environmental Protection Agency system that removes all ambiguity when enforcing (illegal exhaust pipe) noise."
Known as the label-matching system, the federal regulation requires manufacturers to place two labels on every motorcycle they make – after it has passed a noise emissions test, at the factory. One label is on the chassis, the other on the muffler. Each contains a code that is unique to the make and model of the bike. By comparing them, officers can determine at a glance whether the vehicle has the appropriate exhaust system.
If it doesn't, or if there is no label, the motorcycle is in violation of Section 4909a(2) of the Noise Control Act of 1972.
Zigmund had been unaware of the EPA regulation, but looked it up on www.noisefree.org.
"This might explain why some of the bikers have said that dealerships will not put after-market pipes on their bikes anymore," the police officer said. "They have in the past. Just because the dealer installed them, doesn't mean they are legal, though."
Tustin resident Gordon Pearson has a noise problem in his neighborhood, too.
"Our whole society would be so much better," he said, "if we would just enforce the laws we have."
Source: The Orange County Register
Taken from bainbucket.com
WATCH OUT!
Guess where me and my boys wont be going any more.
We will spend not a penny in that area.
Anaheim police have gotten serious about loud bikes.
California - The thundering roar of motorcycles racing up and down Imperial Highway could be reduced to a whisper, thanks to a crackdown by Anaheim police and a little-known federal law.
Motorcyclists with illegally loud exhaust systems began receiving citations on Imperial Highway in Anaheim Hills after weeks of warnings.
Anaheim Police Sgt. Mike Zigmund gave a final notice to about 60 bikers at Keno's restaurant the weekend of July 14.
"We told them that this was the last warning," he said. "They were pretty cooperative."
Armed with a decibel meter, resident Ellie Oliver measured the sound of passing bikers. "The noise was deafening," she said. "I recorded readings of 115 to 135 decibels," – 34 to 54 points above the city's 81-decibel exterior noise limit.
This month, Zigmund and his crew took their own readings and began citing bikers.
"The meter really isn't necessary," he said. "The courts have said that most cops can tell which pipes are legal and which aren't."
Anaheim resident Todd Hamo, a representative of Noise Free America's Orange County chapter, said decibel meter readings "have been called into question in court."
"But," he said," there is an Environmental Protection Agency system that removes all ambiguity when enforcing (illegal exhaust pipe) noise."
Known as the label-matching system, the federal regulation requires manufacturers to place two labels on every motorcycle they make – after it has passed a noise emissions test, at the factory. One label is on the chassis, the other on the muffler. Each contains a code that is unique to the make and model of the bike. By comparing them, officers can determine at a glance whether the vehicle has the appropriate exhaust system.
If it doesn't, or if there is no label, the motorcycle is in violation of Section 4909a(2) of the Noise Control Act of 1972.
Zigmund had been unaware of the EPA regulation, but looked it up on www.noisefree.org.
"This might explain why some of the bikers have said that dealerships will not put after-market pipes on their bikes anymore," the police officer said. "They have in the past. Just because the dealer installed them, doesn't mean they are legal, though."
Tustin resident Gordon Pearson has a noise problem in his neighborhood, too.
"Our whole society would be so much better," he said, "if we would just enforce the laws we have."
Source: The Orange County Register
Taken from bainbucket.com
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RE: SOCAL Riders read this!!!!
With all of the regulations aimed at bikers, pretty soon we will all be required to wear space suits and seat belts. I'm annoyed as hell at the kids who have the rolling recording studios blasting bass that can vibrate the license plate off a Harley, but I don't pitch a bitch about it. I also can't stand seeing most of a kids @ss because his jeans are down around his knees. If they want to look like idiots let them. I'm almost sure that at one point this used to be a free country...
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RE: SOCAL Riders read this!!!!
Everytime we turn around the Goveremnt and a few Liberal do gooders want to take something away. I am really getting sick of this type of stupidity. Southern Cal is beeing flooded with Illegals. The so called goverment that we pay taxes toneeds do their jobs and spend more time on the real crimes , like illegal imigration and less on stupid crap like a loud motorcycle pipes. Man this makes me angry. You California bikers need become more involved in your goverment. Here in Florida we dont even need to wear helmets ( I do though ). I ve seepeople (morons) ridingwearing flip flops shorts and no helmets riding around here daily. Liberals is what happend to California to make it a sh#t hole. I feel bad for my brother bikers out there. Get into the fight and lobby against the changes.
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Liberals is what happend to California to make it a sh#t hole. I feel bad for my brother bikers out there.
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RE: SOCAL Riders read this!!!!
It easy and no hassle to catch a biker with loud pipes. The officer writes a ticket and it is over with.
It's a lot harder to catch an illegal and then have to transport him, book him, take him to court, deport him and wait for him to return again. Dollar for dollar,they make much more money with the loud pipe thing, and they work less.
The mear fact that illegals are doinga large portion of the crime, taking out money South without paying taxes, and ruining our economy and our nation is only secondary to some people.
And the people that don't live in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California can't relate.
Chase them loud pipes..................
C66
It's a lot harder to catch an illegal and then have to transport him, book him, take him to court, deport him and wait for him to return again. Dollar for dollar,they make much more money with the loud pipe thing, and they work less.
The mear fact that illegals are doinga large portion of the crime, taking out money South without paying taxes, and ruining our economy and our nation is only secondary to some people.
And the people that don't live in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California can't relate.
Chase them loud pipes..................
C66
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RE: SOCAL Riders read this!!!!
i live about 25 mins from this area down the freeway and have received the notices stating that they were gonna start this BS. i was actually on imperial hwy about 3 to 4 weeks ago during the morning and i didnt see any cops but have seen a fair share of them out there. if there are any cops most bikers will give a signal that they are around. so ill lay off the pipes but i always get a little skiddish when they are warning me that the cops are looking for the novelty helmets. no tickets yet though...knock on wood!
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With all of the regulations aimed at bikers, pretty soon we will all be required to wear space suits and seat belts. I'm annoyed as hell at the kids who have the rolling recording studios blasting bass that can vibrate the license plate off a Harley, but I don't pitch a bitch about it. I also can't stand seeing most of a kids @ss because his jeans are down around his knees. If they want to look like idiots let them. I'm almost sure that at one point this used to be a free country...
With all of the regulations aimed at bikers, pretty soon we will all be required to wear space suits and seat belts. I'm annoyed as hell at the kids who have the rolling recording studios blasting bass that can vibrate the license plate off a Harley, but I don't pitch a bitch about it. I also can't stand seeing most of a kids @ss because his jeans are down around his knees. If they want to look like idiots let them. I'm almost sure that at one point this used to be a free country...
You are free.............. to pay taxes, pay fines, pay insurance, pay,pay,pay. Don't even mention the U.S.Constitution.
DougJ
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