Good for them. It's time to stomp on idiots with stupidly loud exhausts. You can't have open pipes at a race track any more. Why anyone believes he should be able to wake the dead with his toy mystifies me.
There are different classes of idiot though, a bike with a blown out glasspack or a just-over-the-limit custom exhaust is in a different world from a pencil dicked moron with open pipes blatting around to enjoy the racket echoing off houses - they should take those bikes straight to the crusher. Hell, have a crusher beside the noise test stop.
The problem is getting an enforceable and reasonable testing method.
Agree
This is Quoted from the Toronto Star.
Caledon town council passed a revised and amended bylaw this week to control loud motorcycle exhaust noise.
A large audience, consisting of many motorcyclists with smaller numbers of local residents, packed the council chambers on Oct. 5 to hear a lengthy debate on the long-standing noise issue in the Forks of the Credit area.
In a revision to the draft bylaw proposed in August, the council approved that the testing should be done so that motorcycles with standard Canadian-government-approved original or replacement exhaust systems will pass.
It is expected that only motorcycles with straight pipes, off-road, racing, or unbaffled silencers will fail, and be subject to a $150 fine.
Caledon OPP will be equipped with sound test meters and calibration equipment, to allow them to conduct roadside compliance tests. Their testing will be consistent with the method and standards developed by the Society of Automotive Engineers as SAE test J2825.
The standards in this test allow motorcycles at idle to emit sound up to 92 decibels (dBA). Further testing at 2,000 rpm will allow up to 96 dBA for motorcycles with one, two, five or six cylinders. Motorcycles with three or four cylinders will be allowed up to 100 dBA, measured at 5,000 rpm.
The calibrated sound meter will be placed at 0.5 m (20 inches) and at an angle of 45 degrees from the exhaust tip of the motorcycle’s silencer.
The council voted an amendment to the bylaw, to provide a lengthy period of information and education for motorcyclists who are riding in or through the town, which includes popular riding areas like the Forks of the Credit and the villages of Belfountain and Cataract.
While sound testing of motorcycles will begin almost immediately, fines will not be issued for motorcycle noise violations until Oct. 1 next year.
Testing sessions for riders who want to find out if their motorcycles will pass the J2825 standards will be held in Caledon on Oct. 22 from 6 to 8 p.m., and Oct. 23 from 9 to 11 a.m. The location of these sessions was yet to be determined at press time. Other information sessions will be held in the spring of 2011.
Council will also write to the Ontario Minister of Transportation including a copy of the new bylaw, asking that the province consider an amendment to the Highway Traffic Act to establish a province-wide test to measure motorcycle noise.
