SF Police To Issue Tickets For Loud Motorcycles-effective 5.30.09

[Princess]

... just upshift to the point where you're gonna stall and ride past... it won't be very loud.

what iPhone app? is this for noise db measuring? I'm curious how much louder than a jet engine my motor is.

I think it's the pressure wave of the audio frequency that hits the car to set an alarm off.

I saw this on the net... shows you how Left-leaning most of these people are... they've never even met a rider but I believe their hostility is directed towards the HD riders.

http://tribes.tribe.net/oaktown/thread/1bff3cef-7c10-4545-9cca-b5b0161b6bcb

[Desmostro]

There was a study done in Italy because this is a huge problem there. Bikes out number cars 10 to 1. Most are little scooters or 50CC mopeds with the mufflers hacked so they're loud as hell.

They figured that one moped with no muffler passing through Florence at 3AM woke up around 10,000 people. 

The car alarm thing is a stupid indicator IMO because a tiny breeze or a kitten meowing will set some of them, off.
Then it's the car alarm making the noise.


Now for the 64million$ question:
Why aren't CAR ALARMS illegal then?   

[x136]

Now for the 64million$ question:
Why aren't CAR ALARMS illegal then?   

What a wonderful world that would be.

[Princess]

I tried out the iPhone app (dB measuring app).... appears that it's quite interesting b/c I checked out my own exhaust dB and also SloMotion's as well... very informative

[mostrobelle]

So how loud?

[Drunken Monkey]

Now for the 64million$ question:
Why aren't CAR ALARMS illegal then?   

They are, sort of.

Three complaints about your alarm within a certain period and they site you.

Mind you, by the time the cops show up, the alarm is off, so you have to be a particularly egregious offender to actually get a ticket.

[DanTheMan]

do they even go off like they did when they first came out?

Cant remember the last time i heard a car alarm.

[Desmostro]

Fek-me they still do. The street down behind me houses a P lot where they seem to spawn.
I want to throw boulders at them when they go off at 3AM.

Plus, I set them off 3 at a time in the city just riding around. I've got termi's but this SBK ain't that loud. 

do they even go off like they did when they first came out?

Cant remember the last time i heard a car alarm.