Although at its face the results seem obvious, a recent study by [Sandrah Eckel] et al. on the impact of electric cars in California is interesting from a quantitative perspective. What percentage …
Yeah, I feel you. Where I live bikes are super popular and half of them have illegal exhaust. From what I gathered police can’t really do anything because they have valid technical revisions. They change the exhaust for the revision and change it back after. Police can’t invalidate it just because it sounds laud (even if it’s obvious). I was reading about Singapore. They had the same problem, changed the laws and now it’s getting better. What you have to do is simply make possession and sale of illegal/modified exhausts illegal. In EU no one cares. EU has general noise guidelines and acts as if changing them will help. Meanwhile bikers simply ignoring the guidelines.
The safety argument is bullshit. Motorbikes are dangerous because people ride them like idiots. I read articles in local newspaper all the time about dead bikers and most of the time they just lose control and hit the barriers. Laud bike is not going to save you from your own lack of responsibility. It they would drive below speed limit and stopped squeezing between cars all the time they wouldn’t need loud bikes to be safe. On top of that most accidents happen on weekend when people are simply riding bikes for fun. If your hobby can’t be practiced safely without harming others it’s a stupid hobby.
Yeah, I feel you. Where I live bikes are super popular and half of them have illegal exhaust. From what I gathered police can’t really do anything because they have valid technical revisions. They change the exhaust for the revision and change it back after. Police can’t invalidate it just because it sounds laud (even if it’s obvious). I was reading about Singapore. They had the same problem, changed the laws and now it’s getting better. What you have to do is simply make possession and sale of illegal/modified exhausts illegal. In EU no one cares. EU has general noise guidelines and acts as if changing them will help. Meanwhile bikers simply ignoring the guidelines.
The safety argument is bullshit. Motorbikes are dangerous because people ride them like idiots. I read articles in local newspaper all the time about dead bikers and most of the time they just lose control and hit the barriers. Laud bike is not going to save you from your own lack of responsibility. It they would drive below speed limit and stopped squeezing between cars all the time they wouldn’t need loud bikes to be safe. On top of that most accidents happen on weekend when people are simply riding bikes for fun. If your hobby can’t be practiced safely without harming others it’s a stupid hobby.