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Many municipalities have limits but find it difficult to control loud bikers because when the police attempt to stop them, they speed away dangerously. Enforcement needs to change, but it's likely difficult in the US where my understanding is tickets/suspensions can't be issued just based on who owns the vehicle, they have to be issued to who was operating the vehicle, which is much more difficult to prove without stopping the vehicle.

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I think you're confusing tales of people on sportsbikes running from cops with those on cruisers. Cruisers can't outrun anyone. Cruisers are the ones with the loud rumbly exhausts that most annoy people. Sportsbikes have higher pitched, tinny, buzzy exhausts. Still loud, but less annoying.

> difficult to control loud bikers because when the police attempt to stop them, they speed away dangerously

i don't buy it. people who run from cops get the helicopter called on them. loud bikers have always gotten a pass from cops for some reason. it's another example of uneven enforcement of laws which erodes the confidence and trust people have in police.

You only ever hear about people who run away from cops badly. Motorcycles are usually long gone before the police have a chance to call a helicopter, which they would be able to outrun anyways if they were on a straight road.

To be clear though I don't think that's the reason loudness isn't enforced. I imagine it more has to do with the fact that they aren't watching for it since they don't have any way to easily test it like speed.

What movie is that in?

Loads. They're all on YouTube filmed with Gopros.

Seriously bikes run from cops all the time. They're gone in a flash.

If they have a video with a license plate record of them running away from police, then why don't they revoke the plate and impound the vehicle at the registered address?

I take it you haven't seen the license plate covers popping up all over that basically make it impossible to read a plate from beyond a few feet away?

A representative example off GIS: http://www.v6mustang.com/attachments/dsc00087-jpg.35600/

Why aren't these cars/bikes fined while parked on the street?

I, too, would love to know the answer to that question. I've been seeing them all over in NY, where I understand they're illegal, and have no idea how they're not cop magnets.

Back in the day, I lived on a dirt road, and I never washed my car. So the tag was a little hard to read. But hey, there was nothing obviously intentional about it.

"You can't outrun a radio" is pretty common refrain among sportsbike riders upon hearing a tale of someone running from police.

Said by those that never try, and by cops that believe their own macho BS. Though often successful, I highly discouraged it, because it's very dangerous for yourself and endangers others as well. Additionally, make a habit of it and you'll eventually get caught and enjoy free accommodations courtesy of whatever county you're in at the time.

But one can most certainly outrun a radio.

Good thing we have license plate readers. Impound the bike for noise pollution and a bonus felony for running away from cops!

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