VIC Police have 4 day blitz on m/cycle from 14FEB - focus Rego & Licence

Does staintune have its own licensed tester?

 

....How loud are they?

Staintune pipes decibel range will vary depending on the bike, and
whether or not you use the sound restrictors. On average, as a general
rule, the pipes run in the *low 90's* with the restrictors in place and
just over 100 with the restrictors removed.
http://www.staintune.com.au/faq6.htm

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:08:35 +1100

From http://www.mccofnsw.org.au/a/174.html

"In July 2000, the Environmental Protection Authority (now part of the
Dept of Environment and Conservation) introduced a retrospective law
demanding that aftermarket replacement motorcycle exhausts be
specially labelled and then authorised the Police to issue fines of
$200 to riders who didn't have this label.

In it's justification, the then EPA claimed this labelling requirement
allowed the Police and EPA officers to readily identify less effective
mufflers that may exceed the prescribed noise limits

EPA made no provision by which riders could obtain such a label.
Riders referred to this law as the sticker tax.

However, after 6 years of protest by the Motorcycle Council of NSW,
Clause 19 from the Protection of the Environment Operations Regulation
has now been repealed.

The regulation was published in the Government Gazette No. 35,
(11/2006) pp 1379 & 1380 on Friday 17, March 2006. It does not appear
in any Parliamentary Hansard or Notices, as it seems our State
government would prefer to see this change go unnoticed."

Zebee

 

Hi Zebee.

Is it true that the replacement rules came into force 1 March?

These are the rules that give the police person's opinion of a bike
being noisy sufficient supposed accuracy for a ticket to be written.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:57:21 +1100

I know they were mooted. I don't know if they have actually been
gazetted, I'll find out.

Zebee

 

Thanks Zebee.

I'd try myself, but I'm not good at the rules and regs hunting, and, my
cheap broadband is in "shaped" mode. :-(

regards,
CrazyCam

 

I've got a copy on the home PC I meant to send it to you guys last
night but ran out of time. Zebee, the url in the note sent out on the
MCC list is broken, but if you have a look at it you should be able to
figure out the correct address (I'm not deliberately being obscure I
just can't remember what I did to get it to work)

JL

 

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:20:30 -0800 (PST)

I don't think I still ahve the note.

Chris Turner says that the cops always have been able to say "too
noisy", I think they just couldn't say "definitely violates ADRs".
waiting on more info.

Zebee

 

In aus.motorcycles on Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:03:35 +1100

My understanding (pending confirmation) is that one of the MCC's wins
on this was to have motorcycles exempted.

Zebee