Citations, anyone?

I picked up an old issue of SR and it happened to be the pipes review that AT did a while back (great job btw AT), and he mentioned a very good point that alot of the popular aftermarket systems produce noise outputs that don't comply with the 95(?) decibel limit. Has anyone ever been cited for riding with a loud pipe/slip-on? Just wonderin.....  
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stuff like that normally doesnt get you in trouble unless you really piss off the cop....
couple years ago at bike weeks some harley riders got wrote up for roll ons at lights...  

Iv'e never seen it happen. If it did, it better be the cruisers that run straight pipes in downtown WPB and then actually feel the need to constantly blip the throttle between the buildings while people are trying to eat dinner at sidewalk cafe's  

Depends on how friendly/unfriendly the political and law enforcement climate is towards motorcycle in your city/town.

In Chicago, they have done random sound meter checks on motorcycles and cited people for overly loud exhausts. They have even tried banning motorcycles from scenic Lake Shore Drive. Arbitrary and unjust? Perhaps but realize motorcyclists are in the minority compared to other roadway users. Out of 260+ million Americans, only a small percentage are riders.

If people insist on using loud race-only exhausts/straight drag pipes on their sportbikes/cruisers and blasting up and down roads near residential areas, you can be sure, in time, there will be some sort of negative response

Just use common courtesy and you can avoid a lot of potential issues with The Man. Know the right time and place for having fun (e.g., no full throttle runs down residential streets at 2am or blipping the throttle incessantly down a busy drag full of restaurants, sidewalk cafes, etc.).  

The buzz out here is that the police are ticketing sportbike riders with aftermarket exhausts, as part of their crackdown in the Angeles Forest and out by Malibu.

There are a couple of interesting threads here:

http://www.socalsportbikes.com/

A couple of sportbike riders have said they've been pulled over and ticketed for just the loud pipes, nothing else. And that the Harley riders are left alone.

AT

Oh yeah, glad you liked the pipe test, thanks. It was a lot of work and I still have nightmares!  

There was a town with in the greater Kansas City Metro area that proposed a law to ban (forgot the exact wording) loud aftermarket exhausts on bikes (and they made no mention of cars in this proposed law).  I think several radio stations got together and organized a pretty good size ride up to that town's city hall.  The law didn't pass.

I say the cops should right tickets everytime they see some *** (usually a squid with a D&D pipe) revving their bike at stop lights for no reason or some redneck in a camaro whos just running headers etc.  Write 'em up every single time.  For the cruiser who has a loud exhaust whos just passing through, let it slide.  Now if he starts going up and down the same street over and over again, drag racing, doing burnouts, then write him tickets until you run out of ink by all means.  

I live in Greenville SCWe have a strict noise ordinence in the downtown area here. It is pretty confined 2 lanes thru town. on the weekends young people cruise main street.
Greenville City Police will issue a ticket if you rev your engine at a red light or try to get attention of onlookers..
They are very strick about it. I hear fines are 25 dollars for 1st offence. But I also heard it can get upwards into the hundreds of dollars. But what puzzles me is that it seems to only go for sport bikes. I see Harleys with NO Muffler to speak of come thru with no problem.