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Another motorcycle crack-down in Quebec!

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A friend of mine was recently stopped and given a $166 ticket and told his bike is non-conforming. Why? Because his slip-on is not stamped OEM HONDA. They didn't even bother doing a db check. The officer sternly told him we are not allowed to modify our bikes. No 24hr warning! Straight ticket! Apparently he came across another area on the way home and saw a bunch of police and 20+ bikes pulled over :(

QUEBEC IS ANTI MOTORCYCLING!!
 
Dustin said:
What the hell kind of crap is that? Time to move to BC, where you get your bike impounded and license taken away for going 40 km/h over the speed limit
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There is no logic here:tdown: just saying/venting. His bike is not loud. There are cars + trucks rumbling down the roads here spewing fumes and noise all over in Quebec yet they are not pulled over in mass police operations. We already pay big dollars just to license our bikes whichhas discouraged many people I know from riding.
 
Go to court and fight it. If the muffler is within a described db level they don't have a leg to stand on. Cars and motorcycle use aftermarket parts all the time and no one can tell you that you can't use a particular part. Say your buddy drops his Honda and smashes his muffler. The OE muffler is $1,000 bucks but the aftermarket is $300. How could the court tell you that a Honda part has to be used? The muffler just has to have the same db level as the original. Now on the other side of the coin, if he's running essentially an open pipe muffler which is extremely loud he's up sh!t creek without a paddle.
 
Is there a big MC population there with known criminal activity/connections? I've been watching videos like the show 'Gangland' and the number of MC's in the world that cause problems seem to have created a fervor in the police/politics community to shut down all things motorcycle. I dunno just a thought
 
Ruggybuggy said:
Go to court and fight it. If the muffler is within a described db level they don't have a leg to stand on. Cars and motorcycle use aftermarket parts all the time and no one can tell you that you can't use a particular part. Say your buddy drops his Honda and smashes his muffler. The OE muffler is $1,000 bucks but the aftermarket is $300. How could the court tell you that a Honda part has to be used? The muffler just has to have the same db level as the original. Now on the other side of the coin, if he's running essentially an open pipe muffler which is extremely loud he's up sh!t creek without a paddle.
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That could prove to be difficult. There are very few (count on one hand) after-market exhausts that are legal on the street. Almost all of them you purchase all have a disclaimer that they are for race use only and not allowed on the street. I can vouch for Two Brothers as none of their exhausts are street legal. Here though, the police only care about the noise level and not the stamp on the can. ;)
 
Cobalt said:
That could prove to be difficult. There are very few (count on one hand) after-market exhausts that are legal on the street. Almost all of them you purchase all have a disclaimer that they are for race use only and not allowed on the street. I can vouch for Two Brothers as none of their exhausts are street legal. Here though, the police only care about the noise level and not the stamp on the can. ;)
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So makes me wonder how many on the forum have had problems with police in regards to the noise level of the aftermarket muffler? Almost all of us have tossed the Yamaha 12lb butt ugly can. I just installed a Vance & Hines CS One today and better not have wasted $450 bucks!
 
I wish the police in SoCal cared about db Levels, I have a neighbor with a few harleys, and harley riding friends who all have straight pipes and cannot seem to figure out how to leave his address without revving it to the limit for each gear change (which means about 5 gear changes just to get to 50mph)
 
Klurejr said:
I wish the police in SoCal cared about db Levels, I have a neighbor with a few harleys, and harley riding friends who all have straight pipes and cannot seem to figure out how to leave his address without revving it to the limit for each gear change (which means about 5 gear changes just to get to 50mph)
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Hahah...that's my impression of how things are here in Oslo as well. As long as you've got a Harley, everything is allowed. I live in the city centre and my window panes are quite literally rattling every time a Harley drives by. My FZ1 is just a whisper compared to that.
Personally, I've got a Yoshimura R77 carbon slip-on bought by the previous owner but I'll probably have to let it go, though....and yes, it hurts like hell to think of it. The original muffler is seriously one of the ugliest things I've ever seen on a bike and that's a tall order if you look at how ugly motorcycles BMW are capable of spewing out. I use the word "motorcycle" in its widest possible sense here.


Einar
 
The law here allows the police to stop a bike at any time and do a sound check. In the old days I ran a WOLF pipe on my 900 ninja which was too loud for the city so I'd puddle around town. I was never stopped! My friend was stopped at a red light only because the cop noticed the aftermarket stamp. He saw the cop coming so he wasn't misbehaving.
 
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