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I came a cross this article whilst browsing my through my 'nostalgia pile' and thought it may amuse/bemuse/surprise you folks. Once more the wheel has been re-invented - or at least a way of getting at the owner of said wheel has ;)

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There's one planned near us. Seeing as I'm exempt I'm going to sit there for half an hour tuning the beast. That'll confuse the s*ds!
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I love the second paragraph where some considered mirrors are for sissies!
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Back in the sixties I was fined for noise. It was late at night in Orpington High St, Kent and I was riding a Norton 650SS with goldie silencers. I must admit to giving it some wellie but the noise was amplified even more in an empty high st echoing round the shop fronts and doorways.
PC plod stepped off the pavement in front of me and shone his torch - good job the brakes were ok!
The charge was "causing excessive noise which could have been minimised by careful driving". £60 fine and no points.
So you can be fined without any measuring equipment if the police consider you are making too much noise.

BTW I know someone who has a La France vintage fire engine which never had silencers fitted from new - just straight pipes. If that is the way it was built then AFAIK that is the way you can run it. I wonder what the outcome will be if he runs that past a noise camera.

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A £60 fine was a lot of money back in the 1960s!
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In 1979 I bought a Laverda Montjuic, a road legal(ish) proddy racer. Full race cams, two enormous Dellorto pumper carbs and an open megaphone race exhaust system. It was noisy!! On the road between Watton and Dereham in Norfolk (travelling considerably faster than I should have been), I was flagged down by one of our boys in blue and directed into a layby. They just wanted to know what the hell it was.... they'd never seen one before (unsuprisingly). After some time spent chatting, I was let on my way after promising to try and keep the noise down and stay within the speed limit... Some chance!!
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Pharisee wrote:In 1979 I bought a Laverda Montjuic, a road legal(ish) proddy racer. Full race cams, two enormous Dellorto pumper carbs and an open megaphone race exhaust system. It was noisy!! On the road between Watton and Dereham in Norfolk (travelling considerably faster than I should have been), I was flagged down by one of our boys in blue and directed into a layby. They just wanted to know what the hell it was.... they'd never seen one before (unsuprisingly). After some time spent chatting, I was let on my way after promising to try and keep the noise down and stay within the speed limit... Some chance!!
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That brings back memories. I knew two local lads who owned Montis in 1985. One still owns one (with 600 barrels if I remember).

I had a Guzzi 850 T3 aged 21 then. Racing back from the pub on Saturday afternoons. I had the Guzzi up to an indicated 120mph, the Montjuic flew past me! Gorgeous, light and quick with sure handling. :)
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thornebt wrote:A £60 fine was a lot of money back in the 1960s!
Certainly was! On my Bantam in '63 I was chased along Brighton seafront by a very bolshie copper in a Panda car (pale blue Morris Minor) then I tried to lose him around the backstreets, finally getting done for 45mph. A £5 fine, (more than my weeks wages as an apprentice motor mechanic) plus an endorsement.
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Plugsnpoints wrote: I had a Guzzi 850 T3 aged 21 then. Racing back from the pub on Saturday afternoons. I had the Guzzi up to an indicated 120mph, the Montjuic flew past me! Gorgeous, light and quick with sure handling. :)
I had mine tuned even further by Cropredy Motorcycles who at the time looked after the the production racing Jotas. Stupid thing to do, really, with hindsight. It would hit the red line at 10,200 in top gear... approximately 131mph. Incredibly fast for a 500cc machine back then. I had the best and worst of motorcycling on that bike but could only live with it for a couple of years. Howling along Six Mile Bottom in the early hours of a summer morning was magic.... Trying to get it through Wimbledon on a Saturday afternoon was an absolute nightmare!! It wouldn't run cleanly below 3000 rpm (30mph in 1st gear) and had very little power until you hit 6000 then all hell broke loose. Slipping the clutch overheated it, making it drag and made finding neutral almost impossibe. Ho hum.... In my defense, yer honour, I was young!!
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SPRIDDLER wrote:
thornebt wrote:A £60 fine was a lot of money back in the 1960s!
Certainly was! On my Bantam in '63 I was chased along Brighton seafront by a very bolshie copper in a Panda car (pale blue Morris Minor) then I tried to lose him around the backstreets, finally getting done for 45mph. A £5 fine, (more than my weeks wages as an apprentice motor mechanic) plus an endorsement.
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Ha ha! My mum was pregnant with me on that date! :lol:
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