Lets ban noisy scooters (NOW)

[dave411]

While your at it,can you ban noisey barking,yapping dogs as well.Cheers.

[Strummer10]

HA.....yes no noise from scooters or dogs AND whilst at it no 'drunken singing ' in our high streets please !! Incidentally I ride a GTS 300 to commute to work on every day (sorry guys for that admission.............BUT I confess I never use it for a scooter rideouts or rallies lol as I'm a hardcore traditionalist) but on the GTS point, I will have to change the exhaust on it as it's far too quiet, and as such the car drivers who sideswipe me can't hear the engine running (sounds like an electric scooter)...........so its actually more of a concern if the bike is too quiet

[northern*pete]

Well....I've got a reverse cone big bore exhaust on mine,so best I not pass comment

[Adam_Winstone]

Someone local to me has a sodding rooster that wakes everyone up at 4:20am!!!!!

[timexit17]

How many replacement 'pattern' exhausts are road legal?
I can't recall buying any clubman that has a BSAU mark/stamp and none would probably pass such draconian noise regulations.

As another poster has said 80db is hardly 'loud' in the real world (that these complainers obviously don't inhabit).

80db or over examples =dishwasher, average factory, freight train (at 15 meters). Car wash at 20 ft (89 dB); propeller plane flyover at 1000 ft (88 dB); diesel truck 40 mph at 50 ft (84 dB); diesel train at 45 mph at 100 ft (83 dB). Food blender (88 dB); milling machine (85 dB); garbage disposal (80 dB).
80 2 times as loud as 70 dB. Possible damage in 8 hr exposure.

So, I'll do these people a deal, you don't moan on the 50 or 60 times in a whole year I ride my bike up the street, not revving the nuts off it and taking as little time as possible outside your house and I won't complain every time you use your dishwasher/lawnmower/food mixer etc ok?


It's high time some of these people got a life frankly, if we get our hobby interfered with or outlawed because if these pathetic nimbies I'm going to find a really, really LOUD and anti social hobby to replace it and another when they ban that, and then another.......!

Train driver, I am sure, can give examples of the farcical noise and shut down regulations near some stations where the train is limited to it's start/running times by a few local busybodies (whose house wasn't even dreamt of when the railway line was built), it always gobsmacked me they dared complain -after all you can SEE the bloody line from their house!

[Toot-oasc]

Someone local to me has a sodding rooster that wakes everyone up at 4:20am!!!!!

The joy's of living in the countryside Adam, the animals and birds let you know when it's time to get up (or at least when THEY think it's time to be up and about)

Roll on the dark nights and morning, at least in the countryside you get a decent long sleep.....

[warts]

Not round here you don't - with the Gangmasters tearing about picking up and dropping off the poor sods who graft away picking our veg. Gotta be in the fields at first light!
Then there's the tractors, crop sprayers & muck spreaders and various harvesters. A bit later the few people who have a proper job. Finally the mums taking the kids to school; be a few more when they close Welney Primary.

Anyone know what the dB's are of one of those JCB highspeed tractors at full chat? They seem really noisy!

[tonydevon]

the limit is 99dbA for VOSA on motorcycles over 175cc

we do actually have one of the highest noise level limits in europe as far as I understand it