TheSlashFiveTourer
Original 1973 LWB R75/5
News Item:- Vancouver Sun (4 August 2006)
NOISY BIKERS FACE STIFF FINES
Police officers, some armed with decibel readers, are set to crack down on heavy metal thunder from the illegally reverberant pipes of tricked-out motorcycles.
The Vancouver police department plans to attack acoustic assault over the next five days by issuing $109 tickets to motorcyclists with bikes making noise well over the average range of 93 decibels.
The cityÔÇÖs limit on noise at construction sites is 85 decibels.
ÔÇ£We get hundreds of complaints every summer from people in the West End about noisy motorcycles,ÔÇØ said a police spokesman.
Fines for noisy motorcycles arenÔÇÖt new but the level of enforcement will be said the spokesman. Some officers will have decibel readers while others will simply target bikes making a flagrantly harsh clamour.
The target area of the police campaign is the echo canyon of the downtown peninsula where the roaring vibrato of a motorcycle can crank out quite the cacophony.
At the corner of Thurlow and Robson, bikers park at one of the two Starbucks and take in some sun and high-octane coffee before revving up their engines and heading off. The racket is familiar to a sales associate at Banana Republic across from one of the Starbucks. ÔÇ£It usually happens in the evening. The corner seems to be a place where people with really loud bikes like to congregate. It gets pretty loud. ThatÔÇÖs how they show off, I guess. ItÔÇÖs a way of drawing attention to themselves. It can be pretty bad. Especially if the bikers let it rip as they drive out.ÔÇØ
The problem is that many bikers remove or modify the muffler tailpipe to make them louder.
A local specialist in soundscape awareness from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver states there has always been a connection between noise and the biker culture. ÔÇ£There is a general ethos that noise is power. That the louder the roar of the beast, the more powerful it is and the more wary you should be of it.ÔÇØ The specialist said the traditional roar of a Harley-Davidson is almost part of its brand. He went on to declare that the issue of noisy motorcycles is a tricky one, where the balance needs to be reached between the bikersÔÇÖ right to indulge in their hobby and the noise-sensitive publicÔÇÖs right not to be offended.
The specialist concluded that city garbage trucks in the West End of the city probably make more noise than motorcycles.
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TodayÔÇÖs Readers Digest words of choice in this article are:
1. "illegally reverberant"
2. "vibrato"
3. "cacophony"
4. "ethos"
5. "soundscape awareness"
So there. ` ` `
NOISY BIKERS FACE STIFF FINES
Police officers, some armed with decibel readers, are set to crack down on heavy metal thunder from the illegally reverberant pipes of tricked-out motorcycles.
The Vancouver police department plans to attack acoustic assault over the next five days by issuing $109 tickets to motorcyclists with bikes making noise well over the average range of 93 decibels.
The cityÔÇÖs limit on noise at construction sites is 85 decibels.
ÔÇ£We get hundreds of complaints every summer from people in the West End about noisy motorcycles,ÔÇØ said a police spokesman.
Fines for noisy motorcycles arenÔÇÖt new but the level of enforcement will be said the spokesman. Some officers will have decibel readers while others will simply target bikes making a flagrantly harsh clamour.
The target area of the police campaign is the echo canyon of the downtown peninsula where the roaring vibrato of a motorcycle can crank out quite the cacophony.
At the corner of Thurlow and Robson, bikers park at one of the two Starbucks and take in some sun and high-octane coffee before revving up their engines and heading off. The racket is familiar to a sales associate at Banana Republic across from one of the Starbucks. ÔÇ£It usually happens in the evening. The corner seems to be a place where people with really loud bikes like to congregate. It gets pretty loud. ThatÔÇÖs how they show off, I guess. ItÔÇÖs a way of drawing attention to themselves. It can be pretty bad. Especially if the bikers let it rip as they drive out.ÔÇØ
The problem is that many bikers remove or modify the muffler tailpipe to make them louder.
A local specialist in soundscape awareness from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver states there has always been a connection between noise and the biker culture. ÔÇ£There is a general ethos that noise is power. That the louder the roar of the beast, the more powerful it is and the more wary you should be of it.ÔÇØ The specialist said the traditional roar of a Harley-Davidson is almost part of its brand. He went on to declare that the issue of noisy motorcycles is a tricky one, where the balance needs to be reached between the bikersÔÇÖ right to indulge in their hobby and the noise-sensitive publicÔÇÖs right not to be offended.
The specialist concluded that city garbage trucks in the West End of the city probably make more noise than motorcycles.
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TodayÔÇÖs Readers Digest words of choice in this article are:
1. "illegally reverberant"
2. "vibrato"
3. "cacophony"
4. "ethos"
5. "soundscape awareness"
So there. ` ` `
But most folks run for the PC response that they have met all these great HD riders. 
Yes they are around. There are those who's pipes are not window breakers and they do not always look pissed off while riding. Only I am seeing less and less of happy santa type HD guys .
But I have not always been as nice to others as I should. 
