- Feb 9, 2004
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After traveling 187 miles on Saturday to go riding at Stonyford Calif. we unloaded, suited up and fired the bikes up, no sooner did i push the choke in and a forest ranger pulls up in a truck, this guy has long hair and a mouth full of chewing tabaco (it looked like a huge turd in his mouth after eating 10 bowls of shredded wheat with half of it stuck to his teeth :ohmy: ) he nicely asks if we would like some maps of the park which i needed anyway so i shut the bike down and walk to his truck as he pulls out some maps from a storage tool box, he then begins to ask me about my bike and what kind of pipe im running, he then walks over to check it out for himself.
We run FMF Factory 4 Titanium pipes on all of our 4 strokes with the so called "Silencer" you purchase after the first time you ever hear it fire up and realize how load it is, Now i knew the pipe was not going to be 96db when i bought it however i specifically asked before i spent $300 + - bucks if I was to purchase the silencer they sell would it make it close to legal and i got some B*llsh*t about how they (The Forest Service) have a book with every pipe MFG listed in it and they base the sound test on the MFG specific pipe outputs and not the 96db STATE LAW.
Mr wheat teeth asks me to under go a sound test and pulls out his unit with a clown nose attached and we begin the test, I was blown away by the results, 107db @4500rpm with the silencer!
One look at the results and i told him there is no way the stock pipe conforms to 96db either because it wasn't that much quieter with the stocker on and he agreed.
I was informed after doing over 2000 sound tests on dirt bikes the only pipe that conformed was a FMF Q series or you could use the stock pipe and get a Pro Moto Billet cap that worked equally as well.
He exclaimed that no other pipe on the market conformed to law, even though they say they do no of them conform.
Wheat teeth did not issue any tickets to the family but did tell us we couldn't ride in the State Park and sent us home after a 3.5 hour trip one way which really sucked, There were a ton of other bikes set up the same way we where but when they seen the ranger truck they headed for the hills (Smart)
I wouldn't mind running the Q except they are a little ugly and they make my bike sound like rototiller.
After riding set up like this all year this is the first time we were ever caught for a sound test, it looks like we going to have to by another setup and keep it in the Motorhome for safety.
We run FMF Factory 4 Titanium pipes on all of our 4 strokes with the so called "Silencer" you purchase after the first time you ever hear it fire up and realize how load it is, Now i knew the pipe was not going to be 96db when i bought it however i specifically asked before i spent $300 + - bucks if I was to purchase the silencer they sell would it make it close to legal and i got some B*llsh*t about how they (The Forest Service) have a book with every pipe MFG listed in it and they base the sound test on the MFG specific pipe outputs and not the 96db STATE LAW.
Mr wheat teeth asks me to under go a sound test and pulls out his unit with a clown nose attached and we begin the test, I was blown away by the results, 107db @4500rpm with the silencer!
One look at the results and i told him there is no way the stock pipe conforms to 96db either because it wasn't that much quieter with the stocker on and he agreed.
I was informed after doing over 2000 sound tests on dirt bikes the only pipe that conformed was a FMF Q series or you could use the stock pipe and get a Pro Moto Billet cap that worked equally as well.
He exclaimed that no other pipe on the market conformed to law, even though they say they do no of them conform.
Wheat teeth did not issue any tickets to the family but did tell us we couldn't ride in the State Park and sent us home after a 3.5 hour trip one way which really sucked, There were a ton of other bikes set up the same way we where but when they seen the ranger truck they headed for the hills (Smart)
I wouldn't mind running the Q except they are a little ugly and they make my bike sound like rototiller.
After riding set up like this all year this is the first time we were ever caught for a sound test, it looks like we going to have to by another setup and keep it in the Motorhome for safety.