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LOUD pipes bylaw (Oakville)

DJ Luigi

DJ Luigi

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Hey guys,

Canada recently passed a By-Law to penalize motorcyclists with fines of up to $50,000.00 for excessive noise. We must B.A.N. together to stop this law or at least amend the law for many reasons


The Oakville Noise By-law
2011-100 and addendum 2008-098was passed on December 19th 2011 and will take effect on July 1st 2012.
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Under the by-law, a motorcycle cannot be operated in Oakville if it emits any sound exceeding 92 dBA (decibels) from the exhaust outlet as measured at 50 centimeters by means of a sound level meter while the motorcycle is idling.

The by-law also says a one, two, five or six-cylinder motorcycle cannot be driven in Oakville if its noise exceeds 96 dBA (at 2,000 RPM). A three or four-cylinder motorcycle cannot be driven if its noise exceeds 100 dBA (at 5,000 RPM).

Minimum fine of $400 to a maximum fine of $25,000 for the first offense. The maximum fine for any subsequent offense is $50,000.

We, Oakville motorcycles owners, are concerned citizens who urge our leaders to act now and ban the noise by-law for the following reasons:

 By-law is discriminatory as only motorcycles are being singled-out, targeted.
 The process can have bikers detained up to 2 hours during the testing.
 Businesses in towns where by-law exists will be impacted financially as fewer motorcyclists will venture there.
 Many bikers will reconsider their involvement in charity/fundraising organized rides.
 Costly as many tickets are dismissed in courts for faulty and/or improper testing procedures.

Click Here to Sign the Petition http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ban-by-law/
 
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I have no problem with this by-law if it gets rid of Harley turds with open drag pipes and racer boys using gutted out Growlers. Both are obnoxiously loud and do not belong on public streets.
 
RetroGrouch said:
I have no problem with this by-law if it gets rid of Harley turds with open drag pipes and racer boys using gutted out Growlers. Both are obnoxiously loud and do not belong on public streets.
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I agree with you. some are over the top with their pipes and all.
 
RetroGrouch said:
I have no problem with this by-law if it gets rid of Harley turds with open drag pipes and racer boys using gutted out Growlers. Both are obnoxiously loud and do not belong on public streets.
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I agree with you.
 
How loud do you think 96db is

What's a stock Harley dyna or sportster

What about a 600jap?

Do you guys think any un modified slip on will be over 100db?

Edit.. I should have read the whole post above me

Forget I said anything
 
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I have no problem with the spirit of this bylaw. While I understand what led to this, the reason this bylaw is wrong, is that unfairly targets only a small subset of motorists.

Modified cars, exotic cars, lawn mowers, gas leaf blowers, snow blowers, other 2-stroke motors, large trucks with air brakes, etc also cause excessive noise. Some of these items also cause noise all year round. I think the bigger point is that many times, motorcycles travel in groups where the above vehicles are usually found in singles.

So one way to fight this bylaw is to outline the benefits of motorcyclists. The longer this bylaw stays in force without modification, the harder it's going to be later. Write to all the businesses that would benefit from groups of motorcyclists (restaurants, pubs, coffee shops, charities, hotels) and advise them why you will not support their businesses. Also, if you are a motorcyclist, stay away from Oakville and do not spend any money there.
 
Sorry, but that is such a childish excuse. The problem is the groups of motorcycles. You don't see big groups of trucks conglomerating at Tim Hortons using their engine brakes all at once or groups riding up to Burrito Boyz on their snowblowers.

The reason the by-law only targets motorcycles is because motorcycles are the "repeat offenders", so to speak.

If groups of trucks and rice rockets started making obscene amounts of noise, the by-law would be expanded to cover them as well. But they're not, so it doesn't.

Nobody is saying motorcyclists can't still ride in groups and meet up in the "targeted areas". They simply wan't everyone to stop making so much unnecessary noise.
 
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Major said:
I have no problem with the spirit of this bylaw. While I understand what led to this, the reason this bylaw is wrong, is that unfairly targets only a small subset of motorists.

Modified cars, exotic cars, lawn mowers, gas leaf blowers, snow blowers, other 2-stroke motors, large trucks with air brakes, etc also cause excessive noise. Some of these items also cause noise all year round. I think the bigger point is that many times, motorcycles travel in groups where the above vehicles are usually found in singles.

So one way to fight this bylaw is to outline the benefits of motorcyclists. The longer this bylaw stays in force without modification, the harder it's going to be later. Write to all the businesses that would benefit from groups of motorcyclists (restaurants, pubs, coffee shops, charities, hotels) and advise them why you will not support their businesses. Also, if you are a motorcyclist, stay away from Oakville and do not spend any money there.
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I for one would LOVE to see you come up with a device that limits the noise of dumping the air from your brakes to park a truck. As a former truck driver and knowing the mechanics involved it's simply not possible, nor would it be safe to make such a modification.

They aren't asking for anything obscene. If you're obnoxious about the noise they plan to do something about it. This isn't a shock or a surprise. This SAME by-law was passed in Caledon and trust me as a former resident. It has had NO EFFECT on the NUMBER of motorcycles. Heck just go to the corner of Bush st and Mississauga road on any given saturday or sunday. It's bollocks to think that this by-law is a) coming out of left field, or b)picking on anyone. The fact is that there are obnoxious motorcyclists. There are very few people INTENDING to make excessive noise with their lawnmowers. The ones that are don't typically live in Oakville. They live up in Caledon and other farmland areas where they get together at the fall fairs and race them. Oakville is too "chic" for that.
 
DJ Luigi said:
Canada recently passed a By-Law
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Canada passes by-laws now?

DSevigny said:
I for one would LOVE to see you come up with a device that limits the noise of dumping the air from your brakes to park a truck.
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I think Major is confusing jake brakes with air brakes. Air brakes really aren't that loud, not is the duration of the air purging that lengthy in time. Jake brakes on the other hand...
 
EngineerJoe said:
Canada passes by-laws now?


I think Major is confusing jake brakes with air brakes. Air brakes really aren't that loud, not is the duration of the air purging that lengthy in time. Jake brakes on the other hand...
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And Jacobs, the firm who introduced the "Jake brake" (hence the name) also markets an improved quieter silencer system for their equipment called the "Silent Partner"

AFJ
 
how freakin loud does your bike have to be to get a $25,000 fine on the first offence

this by-law is stupid.

If they want to ban in residential neighbourhoods after a certain time, fine

but all the time, through out all of oakville?

this is just as dumb as the Ontario pitbull ban
 
RetroGrouch said:
I have no problem with this by-law if it gets rid of Harley turds with open drag pipes and racer boys using gutted out Growlers. Both are obnoxiously loud and do not belong on public streets.
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Pretty much any bike with the stock exhaust will pass those tests, and probably most decent slip-ons will too, I am sure my Jardine RT-One will pass it. It's the clowns with obnoxious straight pipes or slip-ons with removed inserts who will get ticketed - good luck to those people.
 
Its basically the SAE J2825 test, which was developed in the states with rather alot of input from the Motorcycle Industry Council and the AMA.

My DL650 with a rather loud unbaffled aftermarket exhaust is well below the limits.
 
My FZR400 race bike with an ordinary straight-thru Hindle glass-packed muffler passes this test. At idle, it was by several decibels.

If you have a 4-cylinder sport bike, I think this test is only going to be an issue if you have an aftermarket muffler in which all the packing has blown out (thus turning the muffler into an echo chamber) or no muffler at all, or one of those stylishly small but obnoxiously loud mufflers, or a muffler that has been cut shorter, or no muffler at all. A normal aftermarket slip-on or full exhaust system with a normal aftermarket glass-packed muffler of a decent size, shouldn't be an issue.
 
I wondering. Say someone were to get a motorcycle and they wanted to get it tested, could they drive it to the police station and have them test it? Or have a police officer come to their home to test it?

I mean, it would suck to buy a bike and later find out it was too loud.
 
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