Quiet, but not BS approved exhaust on M/C

[hertsbiker]

What's the gangs view on a quiet, but not kite marked system on a bike? I'd like to fit or make something a bit dfferent, that may not have approval. Is this a problem?
cheers
Carl

[Plotloss]

No idea.

But hello stranger

[BigGriff]

Suspect you will have to find a switched on bobby who would be looking to 'do you' for something else to pick up the lack of a kite mark and add that to their primary concern.

I've looked at the TVR exhaust cans and they dont have a kite mark so technically I'm probably in the same boat as you.

If it's a quiet exhaust realistically what are the chances of a pull on the basis of a non kite marked exhaust; almost nil I suspect.

Richard

p.s. you get caught I'm not paying your fine!!!

[catso]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RACE-ROAD-LEGAL

[Deltafox]

Just stamp one into the can mate.

[donteatpeople]

Bit of a “guy down the pub” story but I believe it to be true.

I was chatting to this guy last night and he told me he and a group of 4 others were pulled on a “routine spot check for cans and plates”. He had a slightly cut down standard plate which he got away with. However he also had a quiet aftermarket can on which was not EU approved or kite marked for which he received a £30 penalty.

So you can get a fine for a quiet can and you don’t have to be riding silly for it either.

I agree with the above post though.

[Hollywood Wheels]

Deltafox said:

Just stamp one into the can mate.

[Fat Richie]

So is it then part of the Constrcution and Use Regulations that a motorcycle exhaust has to be kite-marked?

[vonhosen]

Fat Richie said:

So is it then part of the Constrcution and Use Regulations that a motorcycle exhaust has to be kite-marked?

Yep Reg 57A The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 & Schedule 7A

Edited by vonhosen on Thursday 22 June 00:03

[hertsbiker]

thanks all. Shame that common sense is overridden by technicality. Thought that noise was the issue, but obv. some plod don't think so.

[Mr E]

BigGriff said:

I've looked at the TVR exhaust cans and they dont have a kite mark so technically I'm probably in the same boat as you.

Cars don't need one.

[splatspeed]

Mr E said:

BigGriff said:

I've looked at the TVR exhaust cans and they dont have a kite mark so technically I'm probably in the same boat as you.

Cars don't need one.

cool

[supersix]

Forgive me - newbie biker here - but cans must be kitemarked then? The bike I bought a few months ago and have since MOT'd has a Micron carbon can with no kitemarks. At the MOT (pass) I asked the chap if it was legal. He said yep, as it doesn't say "not for road use" or "competition use only". So that's another urban myth then?

[catso]

Doesn't seem fair that bike exhausts need a BSAU or similar when a car doesn't, isn't that 'Bikeist' but if a biker is pulled for a 'noisy' exhaust but the exhaust has the appropriate BSAU marking and no 'race use only' stamp then what?......

[Smart Roadster]

Find an old can, cut out the kite mark bit and weld it on to your new can. Job done.

[catso]

Smart Roadster said:

Find an old can, cut out the kite mark bit and weld it on to your new can. Job done.

Easier to get a sticker or rivet-on BSAU strap, (see the ebay link a few posts up), or a set of letter/number punches not that I'm condoning that sort of behaviour of course, because that would be wrong.....

[Pigeon]

Get an old bike, then the regs don't apply