Tue Jun 17 20:41:25 1997 - Message No. 1065
From: Markus Zoechling

Subject: Re: [Fwd: LA0697:Austrian night bike ban?]


Hi @-Fans!

In Linz, a town 250.000 people town between Salzburg and Vienna, there's

a night-time ban for powered two wheelers since 5 jears.
This is in some zones, with 30km/h speed limit and the night ban above
11 pm. That's not acceptable.

At night driving with my bike in theese zones I had never problems with
the police. When you drive in theese zones at night with a bike, you
have double problems with the police.

I know, that there are some bikers with loud pipes. Some of them say:
"Loud pipes save lives"  [  :-)  ]
The police should better look forward to get theese 5% of bikes, that
have too loud pipes. Especially I mean the HD's and other coppers whitch

slow engines and loud pipes. The police accepts their noise emissons,
because Harleys are very modern now. The most bikes eg. CBR or VTR1000
habe no noise emissions at 30km/h.

In Vienna there are a lot of bikes and cars with loud pipes. The police
should better have a look at theese drivers. Besause banning the bikes
out of Vienna would not solve the problem, because of the cars with the
loud pipes. Especially I mean some cars from East Europe. Bikes with
loud pipes will still wake up people at night when they drive on the
roads from where they are not banned.
 Vienna has a
traffic and a parking problem. Using bikes instead of cars is one way to

solve theese problems. Bikes need less petrol than cars and have less
exhaust gases. Bikes need not to drive ten times around the block to get

a parking place.

Louder pipes increase the engine power only about 5%. So the bikers
shuld look forward to use original or silenter  pipes.

An (original) @ has no noise emissions at 30km/h.


Ride red ....

Markus Zoechling
d9356864@gunther.smc.univie.ac.at



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