NEW NOISE LAWS FOR COLORADO!

[Phantom]

This is why the route taken in Quebec actually makes more sense. There it is illegal to ride with modified exahust period. Leave it the way it came from the factory and you have no problems, modify it and you will be fined if caught.

That is the way the law is in New York but as long as the DEC or Sherriff don't hear you for a half hour before they see you they don't really push it.
A buddy of mine just put a Hauck (The loud one) on his Apex... I can't wait until he gets his first ticket!
I already told him he's riding in the back and if it's too annoying (i'm sure it is) I won't ride with him anymore.

We have a saying in the off road motorcycle world...

Less Sound = More Ground

 

[baknblk]

The problem with that.Mountain riding is whole different game. Most guys don't gert exhaust to make a sled loude rout there it's to make it lighter.That's why so many companies are making under tunnel exhaust for the 4 strokes it for weight loss.

So what? If the end result is that it is too loud then it is a problem. I don't care why someone feels the need to do it. By the way, saving a couple of pounds of weight is not a NEED. It is a want.

This is America is it not ?

I am not bashing you but just because you do not care for modified exhaust does not make it right.

A blow dryer and a gas lawnmower are louder than 88dbl maybe we should ban them. Oh and that farmers tractor is 105, go figure. The problem is the small group of people that decide what is best for all when the whole group should decide.

 

[baknblk]

Whats wrong with that? You gotta be loopy to willingly make your sled loud, and stock noise level is well within the limits.

Nice wisdom and respect calling people names.

 

[LazyBastard]

The problem is NOT farmers tractors or hair dryers. The problem is with snowmobile trails that run close to people's homes. I know of lots of places here in Ontario where snowmobile trails run RIGHT UP THE SIDES of people's houses (so close that you can reach out and touch it). More commonly though, are trails running up hydro corridors and such that are bordering on people back yards. Now when people are trying to sleep at 2:30 in the morning and some drunken nutjob with a modified exhaust goes by, it can be very difficult to sleep. Also sled trails that run by people's businesses/offices. Imagine being on a call with a client during the middle of the day and having a hundred noisy sleds run by. There are precisely TWO solutions to this problem; 1) reduce the noise from the sleds, 2) remove the sleds.

Next point; a gas lawnmower and hairdryer are louder than 88, at WHAT DISTANCE? Have you EVER heard your neighbor using her hair dryer through closed windows? Old lawnmowers, yes, they used to be pretty loud, newer ones (the ones made in the last 15 years) are very quiet, especially good ones, like Honda, which are barely a whisper. Also, people only need to use them once every few weeks, not hundreds of times every day.

A farmer's tractor 105... running out in the middle of a field in a RURAL area. Its not running back and forth behind people's houses.


How about those people's houses. America, right? They have to listen to your noisy junk all day and all night? YOU would subject them to it?

 

[JDKRXW]

But where I ride THERE IS NO ONE THEIR TO HEAR IT.

I'm curious.... fill out your profile so we can see where one gets to ride with no-one else around.

 

[Convert]

. If you ride in a sound sensitive area then go quiet But where I ride THERE IS NO ONE THEIR TO HEAR IT.

And maybe if you fill out your profile we will all know where that is : )

I'm for whatever keeps us sleddin

 

[Convert]

But where I ride THERE IS NO ONE THEIR TO HEAR IT.

I'm curious.... fill out your profile so we can see where one gets to ride with no-one else around.

LOL you beat me too it

 

[Paul_C]

The only problem that I have with it:

IT WAS DRAFTED BY THE COLORADO SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION!

Nothing like taking a dump in your own back yard, eh?...........

It sounds to me as if you have a good snowmobile association that is trying to get ahead of a problem that may be causing some landowners to refuse snowmobile access on their properties.

If the choice is quiet pipes or no snowmobile trails, I vote quiet pipes. Beats spending the winter staring at a snowmobile that can't be ridden.

 

[QCRider]

Well said Paul_C, that's the way I see it.

 

[RXB-1]

Done
Sorry I did not notice that..
Have never seen a house yet while riding...........
Just spoiled I guess
Now thats a wide distance apart in perspectives. Some ride so close they can touch a house and have never seen one.