well i got the jardine exhaust installed on the bike yesterday. i rode it about 20 miles and man, it sounds much better! i will be giving the bike to my wife on her b-day which this saturday. so we will see how she like it! i'll post some pics of the bike with the exhaust soon.

and like i said i will keep the factory exhaust just in case she wants to put it back on.

the suzuki dealership i ordered it from assured me that this exhaust was 100% street legal. they said that jardine can't sell it as a street legal exhaust if it wasn't. but hey thats just what they said, and i always take what a dealership says with a grain of salt. but you know, we'll see. i know my bike is twice as loud and i've never had any problems...

The dealership is lying through its teeth. If an exhaust is ANY louder than stock it is not legal under Federal laws. Period. The law won't be enforced locally - probably - but the exhaust is still illegal.

I saw an item the other day pointing out that state and local governments are having problems with revenue. That item mentioned that stepped-up traffic enforcement, including noise regulations, might be a solution. And I'd bet every state has some sort of regulation prohibiting "excess noise." Even more interesting, there was comment that the enforcement people were asking offending riders where the illegal exhausts had been installed. Then they were going after the dealers or mechanics who had done it, and hitting them with much larger fines.

what does that mean?

verslagen1 wrote on 03/11/09 at 11:16:25:

I made only the most casual of references to state and local laws. There are fifty states, lots more counties, and untold cities and villages. Any of them may make their own laws. But the Federal regulation still says if it is louder than stock, even if it otherwise would pass under the decibel requirement, it is illegal. States and cities don't usually enforce the Federal rules, because they can't collect the fines. But some localities are enacting their own ordinances echoing the Federal rules, and then enforcing them. Allegedly, some have gone as far as impounding bikes with loud exhausts, not just writing fix-it tickets. Every loud pipe out there causes ill will for every motorcyclist, not just the loud guys.

Hmmmm  I'm wondering what decibel level our stock bike really is.

   My friend has a Stock Honda Spirit 750 and it's louder than the stock LS650 .......  

Or in other words,  there is a Fed sound limit and I'm wondering if Suzuki over engineered it for a considerable margin .  

Does anyone have a stock bike and a sound decibel meter (that is in calibration)????

yeah cool!

thats basically how i figure it. hopefully she likes the sound of the jardine. and i will have the stock exhaust just in case we will need it. but if she doesn't like the jardine then someone here will get a good deal on a practically new exhaust that sounds great!

rodeoman wrote on 03/11/09 at 18:42:18:

mrplease wrote on 02/26/09 at 21:15:46:


So.....  we are waiting with baited breath.... did she like it????????

T Mack