Ye shall Jake brake no more, no flowmax, headers, and Chambered exhaust.

[biker]

I will stick up for the cops on this one, it has nothing to do with them. It's a money decision by council and some poor cop will get stuck with administering the program.

Anymore, the "Harley crowd" are a bunch of posers who paid a dealership 2 grand to swap the mufflers on their bikes. I used to love nothing more than a verbal joust with a badass biker wearing a 100 dollar officially licensed ball cap.

 

['70 Z/28 RS]

Looking back on it (back in the day) those Hush Thrush muffler guys might have been on to something! Back in the '70s it was 'the louder the better'. I personally didn't care for quieter mufflers back then. The times they are a changin'. I still don't care for those newer popcorn sounding firecracker mufflers though.

 

[Da_Raabi]

I bet this goes the same direction as the stop light cameras. Down here in Daytona they suddenly started showing up everywhere. You could see the strobing camera flash. Then... they were gone. Apparently the "face your accuser" argument was valid because there was no-one actually there to see the "crime", AND if you demanded to face your accuser in court there was never a rep of the company available (obviously) and the ticket would get tossed. And that was a plainly obvious stop-light camera. This decibel issue could be clearly argued on the grounds of reverberation, angles, ground material, etc. Hence why state laws for measuring such things are so strict.

On the stop light cameras - an interesting note was the incredible uptick in rear-end collisions at intersections. I was doing a corner sign-holding job at the time and saw SO MANY accidents. People would freak out and slam on the brakes half way through an intersection and get rear-ended by the guy trying to slide in behind them. It was wild.

 

[biker]

I bet this goes the same direction as the stop light cameras. Down here in Daytona they suddenly started showing up everywhere. You could see the strobing camera flash. Then... they were gone. Apparently the "face your accuser" argument was valid because there was no-one actually there to see the "crime", AND if you demanded to face your accuser in court there was never a rep of the company available (obviously) and the ticket would get tossed. And that was a plainly obvious stop-light camera. This decibel issue could be clearly argued on the grounds of reverberation, angles, ground material, etc. Hence why state laws for measuring such things are so strict.

On the stop light cameras - an interesting note was the incredible uptick in rear-end collisions at intersections. I was doing a corner sign-holding job at the time and saw SO MANY accidents. People would freak out and slam on the brakes half way through an intersection and get rear-ended by the guy trying to slide in behind them. It was wild.

Yep, there's always unintended consequences to the black and white application of enforcement. Especially by brainless technology.
A well-meaning cop in a cruiser traveling right at the speed limit creates a parade behind them which encourages one or 2 aggressive driving donkeys to make risky passes. Huge risk. Especially when they see the cruiser and cut people off diving back into line.

 

[Fbird]

1 GOLDEN RULE....don't pass the PACE CAR!....

 

[biker]

1 GOLDEN RULE....don't pass the PACE CAR!....

HA! I can tell you that if someone managed to pass me when I was working, they deserved a ticket.