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Originally Posted by 1cylinderwonder
Do you own any modern, recent, bikes, besides CB's? A lot of the exhaust pipe and canister laws are rather new.
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If by "rather new" you mean they started in the 80's or so then yes, they're rather new. Just messing with you some, but the labeling laws are about that old. There have been laws written more recently that allow officers to cite and judges to rule based purely on the labeling to eliminate the judgment call of an officer without a decibel meter to be able to enforce exhaust noise laws. It used to be that if the exhaust was 'of similar construction' to the original and passed a decibel test it was ok. Since most cops can't conduct a roadside noise test that meets the requirements they couldn't enforce noise laws effectively. Now, at least in CA., they can just go off just the labels and the actual noise doesn't matter. They can also go after emissions compliance and have done so for many years, but they usually reserve that level of screwing for a problem person or street racers. If they ding you for emissions compliance it becomes very complicated and expensive to get your vehicle out of impound, they're often destroyed. Whether the vehicle is retrieved or not, the owner is liable for any costs incurred for the towing and storage and those bandits get around $200 for a tow and daily storage around $40 or so.