It's not my fight, not my neighborhood, and I don't know the specifics....but it seems to me this should not come as a major surprise. People like myself who're opposed to straight pipes and "tuned" exhaust racket (on cars as well as bikes, but here in the US bikes are by far the most prevalent and blatant) have been predicting for years that excess noise will come back to bite us all. What's being described sounds more like a gentle gumming than a real bite, but then again I'm still 8000 miles away.
The fact that some of us may have more issues with (choose any three of the following) leaf blowers, chain saws, farm equipment, roosters, or heavy transport trucks--not to mention lumbering RV campers, oversubscribed parking areas, barking dogs, and farting cows--doesn't alter the plain fact that a good many people resent motorcyclists for the noise and other disturbances caused by a select few, and that this does and will affect us all. Many of those effects, of course, will not be "fair" (as it's known), and some will be ridiculously draconian and/or misdirected. That's life.
I'd be interested in hearing more from anyone who knows what's actually going on--where this came from, where it's likely headed, and how large or small the affected area is.
Mark
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