Michigan DNR ticketing for aftermarket?

bluehammer said:
But then the law would have to be specific in that it would have to read at what rpm level or at how many feet from the meter, kinda like how they measure open exhausts on go fast boats.
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I think that they are trying to avoid this measurement by ticketing anybody with an exhaust system that is not stock. I would imagine that almost any judge would drop this. (Also, DNR tickets don’t carry much power in court as it is)

I really do hope this whole thing causes people to restrain from making all kinds of unnecessary noise when in town or residential areas.
 
I like it when I see a sign when you come up on some private property that says " Welcome to --So and So's --property. Please enjoy the trail but please be respectfull by staying on the trail" I thinik these signs are a good idea. It makes you thankfull that someone has given permision to use their land for a snowmobile trail;. The lease we can do is be quiet around their house and stay on the trail. I don't think tickets are the way to go either, but hey if it allows me to keep using trails by keeping the landowners happy I'm for it. The 5-10 hp gain by using the pipes I can live without. If I want to do some radar runs than thow a set on.
 
i was almost tickited last year in vt...had a aftermarket bender silencer on, came across some cops jsut checking registration and coasted in with my machince shut off...as they were checking our stuff a polaris went by with the same silencer and the cop said they had just fined the guy $365 for the silencer!!! we waited for them to leave before we started up our machines...
 
i have an mbrp silencer on my viper, ride with others with same or similar systems.... yes they are louder than stock, but we have never had a problem around home or in the UP...... again, if you dont burp the throttle in the residential areas and follow all the common courtesy rules about those areas, loud exhaust isnt reallly that much different than stock.... now on the fun lever yes it is... but again, in the crowded, populated areas, the rules prohibit such use of the fun lever....

the key to trails being open/closed is entirely up to the rider of the machine, not the machine itself..... if we as riders are courteous around our non sled riding friends, ie landowners and residents, then they will not care wether our exhaust is 10-20 dB louder than stock, in fact they probably wont even know....

and in town, when my canned viper fires up at the gas station, fellow riders will say, i bet that sounds sweet when he is in the throttle, and landowners and non riders will just walk by, not even paying one red cent of notice....

just my .02.........
 
bluehammer said:
So another question comes to mind: Will they be qualified enough to recognize what's stock and what's not? Did they take a 4 hour class on exhaust systems that covers 40 years or so of this sport or perhaps a picture book of what stock systems look like? It should be interesting to see what happens when one would refuse to raise the hood and chase this into the court systems. I would think that the only way to pull this off would be for them to measure Db levels with a meter. This would be their way out. But then the law would have to be specific in that it would have to read at what rpm level or at how many feet from the meter, kinda like how they measure open exhausts on go fast boats.
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Will they know my old 540 came with twin pipes? I thought the limit was 78 db's at so many feet ? If they lower the db level will older sleds be grandfathered ?
 
when it right down to it this will be hard for Police or anybody to make this stick. Will the recognize a modified exhaust or not. What machine came with triple pipes...or twin pipes. If someone has the stock exhaust ceramic coated is that modified?????
Right now I think they are trying to discouarge people from making mods.
 
yamyrider said:
when it right down to it this will be hard for Police or anybody to make this stick. Will the recognize a modified exhaust or not. What machine came with triple pipes...or twin pipes. If someone has the stock exhaust ceramic coated is that modified?????
Right now I think they are trying to discouarge people from making mods.
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I know somebody with a ZRT 800 with stock pipes an silencer that got ticketed for having triple pipes. Took the ZRT literature to court with them and got that thrown out in a hurry. ;)!
 
Living 500 feet from a spur trail I can understand these laws. I can barely hear a stock sled even when they get on it hard (the trail crosses a highway by my house followed by a LONG straight stretch) but a few BAD APPLES (mostly GREEN apples :D ) are so loud that I swear they just flew through my basement at 100mph.
 
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