SF Police To Issue Tickets For Loud Motorcycles-effective 5.30.09

[Popeye the Sailor]

Limit is 85 db. Stock is 85 db. Anything louder is not up to code. I guess that means no one on the board can ride warning-less in North Beach/the Wharf.

I can 

Allllll stock 

[Zaster]

Reason #686 why i won't live in SF. Enjoy the crack down 

My thoughts exactly

[rafa]

Do'nt ride like a squid! 

[Desmostro]

DQ would have to kill like 17 virgins on a pilgrimage ... 

What ungodly thing have you got going on in your mind! 

btw
DQ's S4R was louder than the D16 WITH race exhaust measured with a DB reader at La Ducati Day.
not saying it's the loudest, just really damn loud.

[trenner]

Allllll stock

We'll soon fix that.

[ducati_tim]

I live in North Beach, and I ride by the cops all of the time. I doubt any of us would have a problem as long as the riding is nice and easy. I know I can ride up Grant Street with cars a few feet away on either side, and I can either set off alarms or not. If you set off the alarms and generally ride around like a crazy hooligan, you get a ticket. If you ride like a nice civilized human being, you get a canoli.

[BikerGoddess]

I live in North Beach, and I ride by the cops all of the time. I doubt any of us would have a problem as long as the riding is nice and easy. I know I can ride up Grant Street with cars a few feet away on either side, and I can either set off alarms or not. If you set off the alarms and generally ride around like a crazy hooligan, you get a ticket. If you ride like a nice civilized human being, you get a canoli.

I like the canoli idea. Way cheaper than a ticket.

[sfarchie]

I live in North Beach, and I ride by the cops all of the time. I doubt any of us would have a problem as long as the riding is nice and easy. I know I can ride up Grant Street with cars a few feet away on either side, and I can either set off alarms or not. If you set off the alarms and generally ride around like a crazy hooligan, you get a ticket. If you ride like a nice civilized human being, you get a canoli.

North Beach is littered with Italian wannabes, so they wouldn't blow the whistle on a Duc would they? So what if a few of these wannabes wander over from a block away, including me when I'm there getting my chow fun. 

[DanTheMan]

The news showed the police in action this morning handing out tickets. Every bike they pulled over was a cruiser. Stating loud moto noise causes sleep disturbance, high blood pressure, increased heart rate, fatigue, and mood disruption. They failed to mention if this was for the rider or people in the vicinity.

[mostrobelle]

The news showed the police in action this morning handing out tickets. Every bike they pulled over was a cruiser. Stating loud moto noise causes sleep disturbance, high blood pressure, increased heart rate, fatigue, and mood disruption. They failed to mention if this was for the rider or people in the vicinity.

   Where were they?  Did they say a street or did you recognize anything?

[DanTheMan]

  Where were they?  Did they say a street or did you recognize anything?

i think it was the embarcardero

scroll through the videos on the main page of the kron4.com website, "san francisco now enforcing motorcycle noise ordinance"

At one point the use a iphone app, guessing a "level", and a baton to show one rider his ape hangers were too high 

[Spidey]

Ha, I watched the vid.  Pretty funny.  Those guys are idiots.  And by "those guys", I mean the people who blame their high blood pressure on Harleys. 

That said, no more hyper-aggressive downshifts while riding around the City unless I'm in the Mission or sumptin'.  My pipes aren't Harley loud, but when I'm riding around like a moron with loud blips and redline-smackin' downshifts, it's basically a mating call for LEOS.

[Desmostro]

 mating with , oiling baby seals...   Hmmm,  same old same old.

... with loud blips and redline-smackin' downshifts, it's basically a mating call for LEOS.

[Desmostro]

0k, Just tell me when there's going to be the effing-loud-pipe-protest-parade.  [moto]

[CharliesAngel]

(Please give us warning when he's going to take on this challenge.  I want to have the red-hot poker ready to gouge out my eyes.)