1985stang

I don't know what it's like other places, but I don't see how a cop can give a loud car a ticket when harleys and other loud *** motorcycles are riding around. They're way louder than any street car i've seen.

telsonman

yeah i was thinking about that myself earlier. every harley i've seen was loud as hell, and sometimes annoying because of that. but cops don't care. i wonder how they get around being so loud...

67mustang302

I know here in California there's completely different noise requirements for motorcylces than cars

1985stang

Yeah, that's total bs if you ask me. What does it matter what the hell the noise is coming from... If it's loud, it's loud.

OnyxCobra

so true, there are so many rediculously loud bikes around here, i hate it.

monkeyboy

Here in Indiana. I had a buddy that got 5 tickets for disturbing the peace. He went to the court house and told them he got mufflers(he didn't). They just tore the tickets up. But he smarted off to the cop and the cop got smarter. The cop wrote him a ticket for not having any catalytic converters. He had to pay that one. So... I guess mufflers don't matter here. But the cats do.
As for the loud *** harleys.... They get annoying when you live right out of town on the highway. There's semi's using the j-brake that are quieter.

67mustang302

lol That's true. The reason for allowing louder bikes I imagineis prolly an engineering constraint, bikes are smaller and simply don't have the room for effective muffling, plus the engines are so small that you have to be careful about an exhaust restriction, cuz it could strangle the engine pretty quickly. I do find it fun though, when some big hairy dude on a Harley with horridly loud pipes thinks he's the bomb on 2 wheels, and then gets smoked by a car that at WOT still ain't as loud as his bike at idle

steiner_5000

I live in the middle of Iowa and have had several "loud exhaust" tickets in my 1970 Ford pickup. It makes sense though because my 390 with straights is damn loud!!

1985stang

[]Why do you run it with straight pipes? You're giving us Iowans a bad name

monkeyboy

I'm guilty of having straight pipes too. My 2000 silverado's got'em. But it's relatively quiet. It's still got the cats on it. So it's about as loud as an old hot-rod with flowmasters on it.