[6oclockshadow]

I can get 25 miles, throttle only out of a full charge, but regularly get double that as I am pedaling most of the time.

[vreihen16]

NY State just passed a law on Friday to set noise limits on cars/motorcycles, and raised the fine to $1,000/vehicle for repair shops who install "unapproved" exhaust modifications.

From an earlier news article during the bill's debates:

The new legislation sets the noise limit at 95 decibels for motorcycles and 60 decibels for other vehicles. According to the University of Florida, leaf blowers are commonly 99 decibels and a blender is about 92, so motorcycles would need to fall between those limits. Cars would need to be quieter than a vacuum cleaner, which is 87 decibels on average.

In order to make sure vehicles are following the law, this new legislation requires police cars to be equipped with decibel-reading devices. Proponents of the bill say this will make it much easier for police to identify lawbreakers and pull illegal vehicles off the road.

From too many years managing/working SCCA competition events, I can say with authority that sound control is both a licensed position and a black art. The rules are written with decibel limits at a specified distance from the vehicle (and I believe they also specify the direction but I'm too lazy to go out to the race car hauler to dust off my old copy of the SCCA's GCR rulebook). Different frequencies and environmental surroundings also make decibel meter readings vary, and every single measurement is really a judgement call on the sound control person.

Anyway, my question is whether or not it is reasonable to expect patrol officers to go for sound control certification? This is not like window tint where you point a sensor at the glass and get an indisputable measurement, and isn't something that can be measured from a moving patrol vehicle.

Don't get me wrong, I live in the land of OCC and have suffered for years hearing those bike-building clowns test-riding their open-header bikes on the main road at the end of our street with their TV crew chase cars filming. I welcome enforcement against egregious violators like them, but am concerned with using a decibel meter to do the enforcement without all of the measurement parameters defined for the operator.....

[Sedan_Clan]

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CVtbWfy...dium=copy_link

[ramman434]

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CVtbWfy...dium=copy_link

Damn any CCTV of that crash? That was a bad redlight run

[erickonphoenix]

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

Seen on a wall in Oceanside…..

When you’ve just given up on your graffiti as an art form

[6oclockshadow]

Originally Posted by Onesie

That's pretty cool man, how much for the kit? Where did you source it?

The entire cost was about $1,000 not including the hybrid bike.
The motor, controller, and lcd display is from Eblkling.
I had the battery and bms custom built by an MIT student-that was the most expensive component--about $500.

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by ramman434

Damn any CCTV of that crash? That was a bad redlight run

No, but I wish I did. I think it was a race gone wrong. It happened up in Concord, California.

[ramman434]

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

No, but I wish I did. I think it was a race gone wrong. It happened up in Concord, California.

Damn, I wish the guy videoing had asked for more detail from the people that had said they were in the car behind.
Regardless of how it happened, the one guy that was able to get out is going to have a shock when he realizes that his two friends are gone.

[NorCalAthlete]

Dude in the backseat didn't look buckled up.

I'm still confused over the scenario here and the crash. Someone ran a red light; ok got it...who? Who hit who, and in what direction of travel, etc? It sounded like at one point the dude filming asked "ya'll were drunk, huh?" and got an affirmative from the sole survivor, but I wouldn't trust the cognitive recognition from someone who's just been in a bad car accident.

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by NorCalAthlete

Dude in the backseat didn't look buckled up.

I'm still confused over the scenario here and the crash. Someone ran a red light; ok got it...who? Who hit who, and in what direction of travel, etc? It sounded like at one point the dude filming asked "ya'll were drunk, huh?" and got an affirmative from the sole survivor, but I wouldn't trust the cognitive recognition from someone who's just been in a bad car accident.

They might've been drunk or high.

[6oclockshadow]

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CVtbWfy...dium=copy_link

Graphic Content Warning next time, please. That was horrible.

[IllSic_Design]

saw that posted on sunday in my group IG chat, that video is gnarly a.f., a little gruesome for sure

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by IllSic_Design

saw that posted on sunday in my group IG chat, that video is gnarly a.f., a little gruesome for sure

Originally Posted by 6oclockshadow

Graphic Content Warning next time, please. That was horrible.

My apologies to you guys. I'm so desensitized to tragedy and mangled bodies that those visuals weren't really that bad to me. On average I see at least 4-5 dead bodies a week (…traffic collision deaths, gunshot victims, etc.).

[IllSic_Design]

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

My apologies to you guys. I'm so desensitized to tragedy and mangled bodies that those visuals weren't really that bad to me. On average I see at least 4 dead bodies a week.

I mean it's not crazy gruesome, just some people are not used to seeing kind of mangled bodies or blood like that. The video has a disclaimer that you have to click anyways so people should be prepared before they see it.

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by IllSic_Design

I mean it's not crazy gruesome, just some people are not used to seeing kind of mangled bodies or blood like that. The video has a disclaimer that you have to click anyways so people should be prepared before they see it.

Good point!

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

My apologies to you guys. I'm so desensitized to tragedy and mangled bodies that those visuals weren't really that bad to me. On average I see at least 4-5 dead bodies a week (…traffic collision deaths, gunshot victims, etc.).

I've come across some pictures here. It's truly amazing, once you get past the fact that used to be a person, how the meat bag can bend/twist after the person leaves.

[Sedan_Clan]

Tactical training with 9mm simulation paint rounds. Love this stuff!

[Joekerr]

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

Tactical training with 9mm simulation paint rounds. Love this stuff!

What's pushing the paint? Can't be CO2 right?

I'd be a fan too.

Do they feel any different than a regular paintball when you get hit?

[Fly320s]

Your department uses M&Ps?

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by Joekerr

What's pushing the paint? Can't be CO2 right?

I'd be a fan too.

Do they feel any different than a regular paintball when you get hit?

They are loaded using 9mm primers. They just have paint tips. They hurt far less than paintball munitions.

Originally Posted by Fly320s

Your department uses M&Ps?

Yeah. 2.0's.

[Murf993]

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

Tactical training with 9mm simulation paint rounds. Love this stuff!

That training was lots of fun, some decent welts if you got tagged.

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by Murf993

That training was lots of fun, some decent welts if you got tagged.

I caught one in the forearm today on a two-deputy traffic stop scenario where a "bystander" raising commotion on the sidewalk in an attempt to disrupt my stop began firing at us. I took him out and had to apply a tourniquet on myself. All good training.