Acoustic cameras now!

[biker7]

The latest onslaught against bikers. Acoustic cameras to be tested. Will they work in pinpointing 'offenders'? What about revving, backfiring, horns etc? Rural maybe, but city? Any thoughts?
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Fat Bob (2019)

[Sister Sledge]

I've just half heard it on the radio.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48564995

(apologies for BBC link)

So at what point do they differentiate between tyre noise and engine noise?
What if a loud sound is near you and then weeks later you get a ticket and not the louder machine?
Can we have them for aircraft with no silencers please (those little hobby noisy twats) and so on.

And to quote:

'Dr Jonathan Moore, who chairs a campaign group lobbying to reduce noise along the A32 in the South Downs National Park, said people are "thoroughly fed up" with motorcyclists who drive through villages "hundreds of times a year" at anti-social hours.'

That's right folks - motorcycles have a separate rule whereby they're not allowed to be used at certain times of the day/night.
This is stupid government doing stupid stuff. It's all OK though because it brings in revenue.
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[Jim Mc]

Loud bikes save lives? But can also see it from the residents perspective if there is anti social behaviour going on.

All seems a bit pointless though when electric vehicles are on the horizon, and combustion is being driven off the road with ULEZ and the like.

[Sister Sledge]

Might as well throw in worn diffs on large vehicles while I'm at it. Silent at standstill but noisy when moving.
Bus brakes when reversing only.
Football fans cheering when a goal is scored etc etc.
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

I like the sound of some loud engines but other people don't. I'm probably in the minority - most people just want stuff to be fairly quiet, And now that I think about it my current bike is nearly as silent as a...well, a ninja. Gets rowdy up around 10k, but under that it just wafts around the place in a pretty refined, subtle way. When I first got it I thought fts, I'll chuck a can on it. But pretty soon I came to appreciate the understated "noise" it makes.

Tbh I'm glad most engines *aren't* loud. Imagine all those cars with shit il4 engines and how bloody crap it would sound if even mrs green's micra made a racket.
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[biker7]

Different things annoy different people. 'Boring' meters and bad parenting fines would be ok by me. I'm ok with road noise in the day, in town. Motorcycle racism is an ugly thing though. Met someone the other day who said, 'I don't like motorbikes'. Enough said!
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Fat Bob (2019)

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[linuxyeti]

[kgm]

To be honest as much as I enjoy a noisy can on the right engine when commuting or going for a short hoon the rest of the time I actually appreciate the fact that my bikes are reasonably quiet. I wear ear plugs anyway. The louder cans I've used in the past became grating on a longer run and often made my ears ring, even with earplugs, and most of my runs are full day efforts now.

Outside of motorway filtering I can't say I noticed much difference in driver reactions ahead of me with the loud exhaust.

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[grr666]

What's the betting these sound cameras also take a recording of speed somehow?
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[TbirdX]

I would imagine you could challenge it and then go to some testing station (after you've put the baffles back in) and have it tested.
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[Suntan Sid]

Yet another avenue of revenue generation, pure and simple!
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[Tankie]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[Polarbear]

I presume they would have to be linked to cameras to identify the vehicle in question, and even then how do you prove the noise is actually coming from that one vehicle when it's in a row (or 3 rows on a motorway)of vehicles travelling nose to tail.
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[ThatDippyTwat]

You get some idiots at bike cafe's. Best avoid them in spunktrumpet season. Most people I know simply don't care what others think of what they ride. I don't care either, up to the point someone is so anti-bike that they're a danger to me.

Any fixed noise detectors will just increase adoption of switchable baffles. The whole demented plot sounds like a NIMBY's wanking material, and will never come to fruition bar a couple of pilot schemes at most.
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[Pete.]

[Jim Mc]

[biker7]

Love loud pipes. Just about to have Stage 1 with short straight through pipes. They will certainly be hear me coming. That's why I ride a Harley, for the crack! My last bike was a 200 mph crotch rocket. That was great too with Yoshi cans. Not sure how they will pinpoint the noisy bike in traffic. Adds to the cat and mouse thrill. Love bikes, fast and a bit noisy.
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Fat Bob (2019)

[chickenstrip]

Loud pipes for the sake of loud pipes? Nah. Certain engines sound nice with a free-flowing exhaust, others (a lot of chavvy cars imo) just sound like wet farts.

And on that, at least a noisy, speeding motorcycle tends to be past and gone quickly, whereas the aforementioned chavmobiles seem to linger on the nerves forever.

But hey, I very much doubt that this will affect me much - all good fun for the next generations; enjoy!
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[Easy-X]

[Bhud]

Acoustic cameras in isolated rural areas? That sounds like an expensive operation. I do hope nobody goes out at night with a can of petrol and sets them on fire. That would be terrible! If the equipment is vandalised, it could even mean the plans are abandoned. Terrible!

[hellkat]

That's me fucked on all counts.
Non-ULEZ *and* with loud pipes.
Bah.
lol
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[Grubscrew]

That’s all Harley’s then.
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