Re: Ban on aftermarket exhausts?

GBD approved!

With the ever increasing tightening of environment protection acts, all loud(er than deemed necessary/legal) exhausts will be banned, irrespective of the make!
Currently, RE fart canons are explicitly targeted.

Re: Ban on aftermarket exhausts?

Only the bike passed by the RTO is street legal. Any aftermarket exhaust or other modification is considered to be illegal unless approved / passed by the RTO again. Even the upswept exhaust officially sold by Royal Enfield states that it isn't road legal.

Re: Ban on aftermarket exhausts?

Your first post brings the important question of what constitutes noise and what sounds sweet. Absolutely agree with you that an after market exhaust on a single cylinder bike most of the time sounds awful and begins to sound better on twins, triples and fours. Personally, I can't stand the sound of the bullet exhaust and can't understand why others do, especially when you hear it and the rider is all hunched up, riding pedal to the metal and doing a grand 80 kmph and everything else passing it by on the highway. Then there are these squids who put holes in their silencer to increase the decibels, not realising that they are actually making a jackass off themselves. I have a Leo Vince carbon fibre exhaust on my Ninja and more often than not keep the db killer in. This not only makes rides more peaceful for me but also reduces mental fatigue on long rides. Even with the db killer installed, the bike sounds great. Still can't understand what pleasure people get by revving the tits off their superbikes at standstill and is the scene at bike events like IBW and ISF who actually have a moronic competition for the loudest bike.

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I couldn't agree more, I too wanted an exhaust for my cbr 250r, but as time went on, I asked myself, is it worth it? Nope, singles should stay with the stock setup or only use exhausts for the track, as time goes you mature and understand. Coming to bigger bikes, I feel the exhaust is important to let the others know your coming through but not like a mega pipe sound but something sweet sounding with a decent presence and not too loud. I think most sbk owners with aftermarket exhausts should keep a copy of their noise pollution certificate if there is anything like that. I echo your sentiments on ibw and such festivals, I honestly am not enthralled by them, many bikes are just abused for no reason.

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You guys still haven't seen or heard the worst of it. I am living in the Bullet capital of India, Chandigarh (Punjab) and the problem is much much worse here.
For the past 7 years of my time spent in Chandigarh, I have not seen a single bullet with stock a silencer. And they do something to the engine that creates a loud cracker like sound if you rev the nuts off it and then release the throttle. For all other purposes the Chandigarh and Punjab police are very strict in enforcing the traffic laws and regulations, but when it comes to Bullet, everyone turns a blind eye to them. I am trying so hard not to swear or curse these so called wannabe "Men, who ride real metal bikes"

I hope police in North India too take a leaf out of the Bengaluru Police's book and take strict action on these dimwits. Bloody Morons.

Re: Ban on aftermarket exhausts?

I own a Classic 500 with stock exhaust, and I am all in for the ban on after market exhaust if the same law is applicable for everyone.

Why only single out RE's when you have boy racers on Pulsar's, KTM's and Apache's ripping through the streets at the middle of the night waking up my 7month old daughter (a big problem in Mira Bhayander road in Mumbai)? Why only bikers when you have Lancers, zens, etc with wide body and puny tyres and LOUD FFE's going around?

Is anybody measuring the racket caused by Auto rickshaws, transport buses and trucks with rusted exhausts and other falling parts that also endanger the lives of others around?

I feel that any given month if they cannot meet their monthly quota, they simply pick the flavor of the month to enforce and start fining and do social media stunts for more FB likes!! Fine, but treat everyone as equal before the law.

As per section 52 of MV law ANY modification to stock is illegal. So technically I'm still riding an illegal bike with stock exhaust, because of after market headlight I added because the stock lamps were not safe enough for me on the highway. It does not matter if I have aligned it to not blind the oncoming traffic or if I use it only on highway, it is still illegal.

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I second your thoughts on this. First and foremost these after market exhausts are so annoying. And like you, I too had to suffer with them, previously used to stay at an apartment which was near a cross road in Hyderabad and these guys with "Machine gun silences" used to rip the bike at 1 AM and putting an infant to sleep after him waking up shocked and some what bamboozled isn't easy.

For some time I owned a RX100 just for the sake of owning my dream bike in my teens, but when I used to roam around otherwise calm colonies I used to feel guilty of ruining the peaceful environment, sold it!

Secondly, everything that ruins the environment should be banned, not just aftermarket exhausts for bullets! Those Marcopolo buses made by Tata, they let one hell of a smoke at signals in Hyderabad. All those aftermarket exhausts for FZs, Pulsars and now people with Avengers are inspired by Bullets and they too are going for aftermarket exhausts. Rule must be same for all these.

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Forget the nuisance of after market exhausts, especially the ones on single cylinder bikes. The racket created by an auto rickshaw is perhaps the loudest and most irritating one. I pity the citizens and especially the traffic police men who are surrounded by this atrocity day in and day out on any given road in our country. Let's face it, India is perhaps the noisiest place in the world and with the ever expanding population of vehicles on more or less the same sq. Km of roads, we are heading for a serious hearing problem in the near future. I hope our law makers draft and implement laws that address the real problems of noise pollution and not single out bikes as the sole culprit.

Re: Ban on aftermarket exhausts?

Is it ban only on Aftermarket exhausts or even the normal exhausts with cut down mufflers. In fact these exhausts are more noisier than the aftermarket ones. Off-course even aftermarket vehicles have some sound issues, majorly these 600cc above bikes are stopped for this reason alone. Cops stopping bikes with just an aftermarket exhaust doesn't suffice, they need to have a decibel meter to monitor such noise polluting vehicles.

Honda Fireblade with Racefit exhaust sound legal issue

Hello guys,

I ride a Honda Fireblade and here is my bike. I’ve a Racefit carbon slip-on installed and if you know it’s a loud one. I generally ride in my home town in Kolkata and its not a core city area. So far I stopped twice by petrol police on highways and I had to explain them with all papers that’s it’s a 1000cc superbike and it’s a stock exhaust that’s comes with the bike, but they says its not stock etc.

I’ve heard some events where cops destroys Royal Enfield exhaust due to loud sound, So My question is what is the sound limit by govt? or is there any feature I can get a certificate from RTO so I can show then and walk away quickly? Thanks

Re: Ban on aftermarket exhausts?

Actually the cops are not using any type of device to measure the decibel so I would rather suggest you to raise this issue with Honda as they might be able to give you a certificate that it is a stock exhaust else like everybody else you are also on God's mercy.

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Thanks but like I've mentioned its fitted with a Racefit exhaust not stock and that is much more loud from the stock one. But this bike ran easily without having any issue in core city area of our state by the previous owner without any single issue. So if I have to get any certicicare i have to get it from racefit and thats too a uk brand not sure if their certificate will work here.

BTW to avoid this issie I've already installed the stock exhaust so no more issues. I just wanted to clear the issue. I know RTO rules are like 96dbm (as far as i remember but not sure) is max allowed and more than that is offensive. And i know these cops doesn't have dbm measuring device.

Re: Ban on aftermarket exhausts?

It’s 80 decibels .

Re: Ban on aftermarket exhausts?

The problem with RE is that aftermarket loud exhaust for all RE bikes are easily available in the market. i Think RE guys should realize them self about increasing noise & air pollution & use only stock exhaust in their bikes.