Just my 2 cents,
let the bikes be loud, its the sound of freedom, something most of you young people have never had.
Loud bikes saves lives?
Maybe not in the city, but it does out in the country. Argue all you want about that, I could care less what any of you think.
As you guessed it, I hate noise bylaws, I seen that crap first hand in Edmonton.
How would you like to be having a nice sunday ride, maybe alone, maybe with friends, when you turn a corner and a cop jumps out for you to stop and direct you to a special team, this team will go through your bike with no respect to your piece and private life, your bike will be checked for noise, okay so that is a pass, but hold on there rider, how come you don't have any side reflectors? That alone is good for a 150 dollar ticket! Do I really need to go further?
How about being pulled over, given a ticket for doing apparently 60 in a 50 zone? How about the fact that you were beside a van doing the same speed when clocked, the van continues and your hit with another 150 bucks!
For those of you that have never lived in That nice place next door to B.C., yes the same one controlled by Nazi police, the private police force of Edmonton, that has a budget of 280 million dollars a year which is somewhere around 80% of your land taxes, you have absolutely no clue. A city that has two police helicopters, not for fighting crime, but to nab motorcycle riders for speeding to stunting! Photo radar at just about every turn, red light camera's? How about speed on green camera's?
So what about rides in the country, well the RCMP know of all the good roads, and they usually sit in the bush with a radar gun with you guessed it, a road block up ahead! And there is no mercy, now 51 over is pretty fast, and a 12 grand ticket will cure that issue! You only have live in that country for a little bit to see that what wasn't a huge deal on one side of a line is a huge issue on the other.
But then again, you would be nuts to even try riding on roads so rough. That Sunday ride makes you feel two inches shorter after a 100 kilometers!
I lived in Edmonton for a little over 20 years, I wasn't from there, I grew up in the Okanogan.
The only difference between a jail and Edmonton?
A jail has a fence around it!
So yes, some guys are retards and have to have the loudest bike on the block, so what, at least we know when the retard is coming..lol
Don't make up any more rules, when you do, you lose freedom, something we all have very little of because of people complaining about retards.