This is honestly an entirely valid complaint. There are way too many motorcyclists who replace their mufflers with aftermarket ones that are illegally loud, in some cases loud enough to cause hearing damage to pedestrians.
The vehicle seems to loud -> perform a check -> if it is too loud, confiscate to have it examined and fine the driver -> if vehicle is found to have been tampered with using illegal parts, don't return it and fine some more
Then bring it back into a legal state and auction it off anonymously
I have a performance exhaust on my bike. It comes with a decibel reducer which I keep on for daily use, and remove for road trips. Making noise in urban areas is a 100% dick move.
As a friend likes to say: " Look! there goes a son of a bitch riding a noise"
I don't ride either anymore, but it's not that hard to just cover the horn while you're around more dicey situations. I loved my CBR500 because it actually sounded like a car horn.
But loud pipes save lives. When a buddy of mine died some years back, doctors said it was because he'd neglected to ear-rape his entire neighborhood while pulling into the garage at midnight.
Meh, this is our life on Enmore Rd in Sydney on Friday and Saturdays nights until the early morning. Not sure if it's already been designated an entertainment precinct but it's meant to be. For some reason that attracts people with loud cars and bikes.
I don't think any zoning laws anywhere in Australia would allow for this on public roads.
Happy to be corrected, but this shit takes it's toll on everyone else's wellbeing.
When I lived about 5 km from the city (Melbourne), I'd hear some arsehole (cars, as well as bikes) ripping it down the road at least every 20 minutes, all fucking day.
I do not give a shit what your hobbies are, but they had better not be giving me heart disease...
These fuckers deserve to have their bikes/cars confiscated for putting on illegal mods on the second offence. Not per vehicle, per fucking lifetime.
You get one chance, then you had better start keeping receipts so you never have an illegal mod ever again...
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Permitted noise should be inversely proportional to vehicle size (and legally, it kinda is). Too many idiots on the road that can't see over their own bonnet.
Also, get off reddit. Especially that shithole of a sub. It's probably full of drongos who take 2.5 tonne utes into school dropoff zones.
Not all of us are privileged enough to work daytime hours. I used to go to college during the day, sleep in the afternoon, and work 11pm to 7am. On weekends, I would pass out the moment I got home from work.
GET FUCKED. I don't even need to justify it with swing shifts, night shifts, fuck, if I'm retired I STILL DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOUR MANHOOD COMPENSATION SYSTEM FARTING THROUGH MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
Edit: I have no idea how anyone could take this seriously, I was just slightly mocking the original post... I'm sure I'm missing something here but I genuinely have no idea; I'm sorry, I guess.