Removing baffles - the law?

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

And, to a certain extent, I'm all in favour, however some people, I rather think, do not consider the feelings of others when they ride an outrageously noisy motorbicycle. When I'm out on my bike, sometimes I cringe with embarrassment when a nob-end screams his 4 into sod-all up the high street, I see the shaking heads and it's all too apparent they're not shaking at him alone, but at all of us on bikes.

Soulkiss overtook you then

sent from the shredded wheat factory

[Sid Squid]

Originally Posted by andrewsmith

Soulkiss overtook you then

Soulkiss only overtakes me when I run out of fuel

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

Soulkiss only overtakes me when I run out of fuel

and have had a cig, ate your lunch, then refueled and kitted up again

[Red Herring]

It's not necessarily the amount of noise you are making that causes the problem, it's the how, when and where that will get you grief. Riding a IL4 (or even an SV for that matter) with a loud can up a residential street at 40 mph in 1st gear is plain antisocial, especially so if you do it in the middle of the night. Ditto if you insist on riding around your favorite roundabout complex that just happens to be next to that new housing estate at 6am on a Sunday morning you can expect a few phone calls to be made. If you don't give anybody cause to look at your exhaust it doesn't matter if there's a baffle in there or not.

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

Soulkiss only overtakes me when I run out of fuel

My myum always told me to be respectful of my elders and let them go first :P

[MJC-DEV]

Originally Posted by Red Herring

It's not necessarily the amount of noise you are making that causes the problem, it's the how, when and where that will get you grief. Riding a IL4 (or even an SV for that matter) with a loud can up a residential street at 40 mph in 1st gear is plain antisocial, especially so if you do it in the middle of the night. Ditto if you insist on riding around your favorite roundabout complex that just happens to be next to that new housing estate at 6am on a Sunday morning you can expect a few phone calls to be made. If you don't give anybody cause to look at your exhaust it doesn't matter if there's a baffle in there or not.

This is very true, I live near a bike pub in a village and the number of bikers who think that 70mph in a 30mph zone on open pipes (Harley's and IL4) is macho is unbelievable. It's not great at 10pm or a Sunday afternoon, or indeed any time!