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Old 22 Nov 2013
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As far as unlawful and the police are concerned, well I grew up in a middle class neighbourhood in the sixties and seventies. Yet unlawful and dangerous are great terms to describe a fair amount of our fun activities in our misguided youth. My kids think I had an awesome time as a youngster.
Wearing my liberal hat there is something in that if you have the patience to survive it. About ten years ago (ish) we had similar problem with teens / early 20's on noisy bikes (and some cars) - although admittedly not at 4.30am, but it eventally went away when the kids grew up / moved away / got married. These days all we get is their pre school offspring demanding "sweets with menaces" at Halloween.
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Is it my imagination or has this problem got much worse?

Every morning at 04.30 hours my partner and I are being woken by a moped being furiously driven past our house at excessive speed!

It has one of those damn expansion cans fitted and makes the most annoying noise - like a HUGE Bumble Bee... We hear the thing coming from a mile away...

That idiot must be waking thousands of others including small children in their beds.

This kind of exhaust fitment is without doubt UNLAWFUL yet the local plod around here seem to not to care. The police do possess considerable powers in these cases.

I'd like to know why these expansion chambers (cans) are being lawfully imported and sold in the first place to all these little twats.

Nearly all these automatic scooters / mopeds are ridden by youngsters. They fly around the streets taking enormous risks taking into account their riding ability etc.

I consider ALL motorcyclists who fit unlawfully loud exhausts to be ruining the good name of the majority decent, responsible, law abiding riders.

Most importantly, why would anyone wish to wake & upset people they have never even met let alone know?

It's becoming the bane of our lives around here.

The police (Toy Town) are bloody useless.
Im not sticking up for them but i was young once like all off us and had a honda MT5 for 1 month at 16 until it went bang and had a loud pipe, i think its part of growing up as a kid doing stuff like this but yes i understand your point and now if i was a father and it would be waking my child up i would be alittle angry but also i know i did stuff like this

Nearly all these automatic scooters / mopeds are ridden by youngsters. They fly around the streets taking enormous risks taking into account their riding ability etc. = Well thats because they only have passed a CBT so cant ride a bigger bike hence youngsters 16/17

I'd like to know why these expansion chambers (cans) are being lawfully imported and sold in the first place to all these little twats.= its not a hand gun but a loud pipe you can buy from any shop or from ebay

Maybe its better for kids (16/17) to work and get job to be able to buy scooters ect ect rather than do crack or get smashed on street corners.

A 2-stroke sounds loud anyway and more so early in the morning (my car sounds loud early in the morning when i leave at 4am and some street lights go on as i go down the road)
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The push back is a lot of communities are passing noise ordinances and even the feds are looking at all exhausts MUST retain the EPA factory emboss stamp on the pipes to register it (enforced by starting to require smog tests, something never done before...)...at least that was article I read from the AMA a few years ago....

anyone remember that article?...
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The push back is a lot of communities are passing noise ordinances and even the feds are looking at all exhausts MUST retain the EPA factory emboss stamp on the pipes to register it (enforced by starting to require smog tests, something never done before...)...at least that was article I read from the AMA a few years ago....

anyone remember that article?...
same is starting to happen here too now. Supposedly an exhaust that produces more noise or more emissions than factory standard will be banned. IN some countries, virtually any modification to a vehicle from the manufacturers original spec, or endorsed by them is banned and, because of the idiot few, I can see that happening here too.
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Dyou know? I too was a bit of a lawless wankrr when I was young but I've never, then or now, seen the appeal of loud, high pitched, buzzing cans. They seem so...geeky, the moto equivalent of being bespattered with acne. Even as kids we preferred something more mature in the exhaust note dept.
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