does anyone know exactly what 'the disease' can do if they pull you over and are unhappy with your exhaust/visor?. If you can swop your visor and put baffles in there and then are they likely to:
1 - wag a finger and let you on your way
2 -issue a fine and tell you to get it re MOT'd
3 - issue a fine and dish out some points for my license
I think further confusion my reign as I believe each force has different policies for dealing with these monstrous acts of crime.
Depends on where you are, who teh copper is, what mood he's in etc etc
Dark visors are now legal for daytime use i think?
Loud cans are loud cans and whether baffles are available or not, you'd still be able to be done. However if the cans are marked up and a llegal can with baffles in, I doubt many would do you, unless on a mission to pull bikes for noisey cans. They are within their rights to impund teh bike though, unless Im wrong, but I think it would in general be rare for you to get done for the baffles thing unless your cans are like shotguns
Dark visor during good light - they are unlikely to persue the matter.
You'd like to think the exhaust would only merit a warning too - there are worse crimes in life other than a noisy exhaust (although I suspect they don't like being reminded of it )
Al
If I am ever on life support - Unplug me......
Then plug me back in..........
'the disease' came from a Police officer seconded to my unit who recalled the story of encountering some youths who shouted "scarper lads, its the disease". My colleague found it funny, I found it funny, if you can't laugh at yourself...........
If you're a cop you should know the answers to your questions, but for what it's worth, you'd be usually be verbally warned for both offences if your attitude was okay. If you're an a*sehole (or you're stopped as part of a "themed enforcement" excercise near a biking haunt for example) it might be a different kettle of ballgames.
A can with removeable baffles will be e-marked road legal & would normally be supplied with a certificate of road legality from the manufacturer. This makes a "defective exhaust" offence very difficult to prove at court if it's contested. In my experience most traffic cops don't know enough about bikes to tell whether the baffles are in or not anyway(!) and if they do, they know they're highly likely to lose "defective exhaust" offences with e-marked cans so they just give people a bye. Beat cops generally don't give a shiny sh*te about traffic offences because they're far too busy with proper police work and they don't get any credit from their bosses for traffic stuff anyway.
Dodgy visors are usuallly stamped "Not For Road Use", making visor offences easy to prove. However, the vast majority of cops will turn a blind eye to them during daylight hours as it's no different to wearing sunglasses under a clear visor. If you wear a dodgy visor at night, though, you deserve no mercy IMHO.
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