So, let's toss another red herring into the mix and keep that rolling pirate ship of fools pissing off the general public for a few more years
Adele, how will BCCOM be looking at a noise snare system?
Is BCCOM going to buy one for $112,000 and then set it up and prove it doesn't work, or ask the lower mainland taxpayers to buy one and then watch thecourt system tie itself in knots for years while the device's accuracy is questioned and your members "freedom to ride" is "protected"
Here's a news flash, the police target MC's because the "Loud Pipes Saves Nothing" crowd are a pain in the ass, and a popular as a white headed zit on the face of a 15 year old girl. This group of under endowed attention whores make the general public despise motorcyclists more every day and BCCOM seems to have an unnatural attraction to supporting their antics.
Of course there is a reliable sound testing system avaialble already as outlined by SAE document J2825, "Measurement of Exhaust Sound Pressure Levels of Stationary On-Highway Motorcycles," meets the need for a practical, consistent roadside sound test. It is also endorsed by many legitimate MC organizations
http://www.americanrider.com/output.cfm?id=2218195
It seemed that BCSB answered your questions on noise last year
http://www.bcsportbikes.com/forum/s...-or-a-bad-thing?highlight=SAE+document+J2825,
Let me share of my favorite quotes on loud pipes from Belt Drive Betty
Please ride safely -
ONLY use your pipes where absolutely neccessary to prevent a crash, be a smart rider who is on the look out for dangerous situations - and remember SIPDE - Scan, Interpret, Predict, Decide and Execute - hone those survival skills - they are still your best defence in preventing a crash!
Belt Drive Betty
Editor & Rider
www.beltdrivebetty.com
www.bustedknucklechronicles.com
Let's see how the Calgary testing of the Noise Snare worked out
Inaugural Noise Snare shakedown much ado about nothing
BY MICHAEL PLATT ,CALGARY SUN
FIRST POSTED: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2012
The modified pickup truck roars past, forcing those at the roadside to shout to be heard — but it isn’t loud enough.
A growling Italian V-twin motorcycle, exhaust pipes only a matter of metres from the bylaw department microphone, doesn’t come close to setting the Noise Snare off.
As loud as the traffic is — and it’s thunderous at times — it remains a very quiet afternoon for tickets along Calgary’s Ogden Road.
Wednesday marked the official launch of Calgary’s new Noise Snare sound-measuring device, and over the inaugural hour of monitoring a noisy rush-hour road, not a single vehicle managed to break the law.
They’re actually just warnings for the first month, before bylaw starts to issue $200 fines for anyone breaking Calgary’s legal sound barrier of 96 decibels.
But zero tickets? That speaks volumes.
“Nothing’s gone over — in the hour I’ve been out, the loudest vehicle that’s come through was a car at 93 decibels,” said bylaw officer Martin Tornberg.
The Noise Snare is a device criticised as heavy-handed and unfair, for forcing people to muffle their motorized monstrosities — yet on a noisy road like this, full of really loud vehicles, it fails to register.
They say a landing DC-8 makes around 96 dB, but until you stand within arm’s reach of rush hour traffic, listening for really annoying vehicles, you don’t get how ridiculously loud 96 dB must be.
As cars, trucks and bikes shake the asphalt on Ogden Road and rattle nearby eardrums, you fully expect Tornberg to tell you the barrier has been broken — but no.
“Basically, we have a threshold level of 96 decibels set up on the Noise Snare device,” said Tornberg.
“I’m after anybody who has a noisy vehicle — it could be a car, a truck, a motorcycle, anything.”
It will have to be a vehicle driven by someone incredibly obnoxious and/or self-centered — because no normal person could emit anything close to 96dB from their tail pipe without feeling vast guilt and shame.
This clearly isn’t a nanny-state move to silence any vehicle making more engine flatulence than a typical Smart Car, as some with modified exhaust pipes like to claim.
To actually understand how loud 96 dB is, is to grasp just how brainless you’d have to be to purposely modify or operate any vehicle to make that level of racket.
In fact, it was one such jerk who helped bring the Noise Snare to life.
“He went whipping by in first gear, at 10,000 rpm, the bike screaming the whole way, and he woke up my six-month-old daughter,” said Mark Nesdoly, an electrical engineer from Edmonton.
“My first thought was violence, but I knew I couldn’t do much from behind prison bars. The I started thinking, ‘you never hear of anyone getting tickets.’”
That’s because there was no reliable way to measure motorcycle noise, leading Calgary Police Chief Rick Hanson to admit in 2008 that the existing noise law was too difficult to enforce.
And so Nesdoly invented the Noise Snare, and after independent testing it’s now officially in the arsenal of Calgary bylaw and being considered for use by police forces across Canada.
It works like photo radar, mounted in an unmarked vehicle, recording sound and licences of violators as they pass.
Public testing of the snare at an open session last month showed 47% of the 469 vehicles registered a fail — but as Tornberg points out, those were people who showed up fully expecting to be too loud.
After the first official day on the road, it seems the average Calgary road user has nothing to worry about from the Noise Snare.
And that, says Ald. John Mar, was the point when he started pushing for the sound law three years ago.
“It’s a big community, and we all need to learn to play together — and if you’re deliberately making a vehicle louder to the detriment of the community, we’re going to enforce the law,” said Mar.
“Now we have a tool to do just that.”
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