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My German friend with a harley tells me that loud motorcycles are very strictly controlled in his part of Europe, especially Austria, which is popular to transi
by zanderz 7y ago
My German friend with a harley tells me that loud motorcycles are very strictly controlled in his part of Europe, especially Austria, which is popular to transit through on long tours to the Alps. He says Austrian police will confiscate a motorcycle on the spot if it is deemed too loud and/or illegally modified. I wish they did that in my neighborhood, where some motorcycles are loud enough to set off car alarms right outside my window.
- ska 7y agoEurope has fairly strict sound limits on motorcycles (and they are getting stricter) in euro4/euro5. This constrains the manufacturers, but aftermarket enforcement really varies by location. These days a lot of manufacturers homologate to meet multiple standards, so we get euro4ish stuff in north america too, stock at least.
- andrepd 7y agoYep, it's not so much the production limits (still, they could be pushed gradually lower and I'm sure the manufacturers would manage), but it's the often grey-are of aftermarket modifications.
- noir_lord 7y agoAll I can say as a motorcyclist myself is good. After market exhausts that aren’t engineered to be deliberately louder are stupid and annoying to other people.
- ska 7y agoI suspect you meant engineered to be quieter? Excluding intentionally loud exhausts, the intake on a lot of bikes generates more sound than the pipes, at least at speed.
- glogla 7y agoAlso, I think European houses and apartment buildings are built from brick, stone and concrete, while in US most of "homes" are wood and drywall, which doesn't isolate as well.
- diydsp 7y agoWe have those limits on sound where i live in the u.s., but the police feign ignorance on testing procedures and treat it as lowest priority.