One of the problems of trying to enforce emissions laws or noise laws is that you have to have the proper equipment to measure it, the proper training to use the equipment and the proper upkeep of said equipment. It all costs a lot of money. In turn, you are then put in a position where you have to go out and try and hunt down enough tickets to cover the cost of all that. If you don't get the tickets then you get accused by the taxpayers of wasting money on equipment you didn't need. How do you win?
On the loud bikes- I used to write a lot of bikes. No baffles or muffling whatsoever, really loud and in residential areas where people rightly complained. I'd right the ticket which automatically came with a Correction Slip that allowed the owner to have the issue fixed within 24 hrs and the ticket would be dismissed. The guy would take the bike to the Harley dealer who ALWAYS signed off on them as being just fine. The ticket would be turned in, dismissed and the bike would be just as loud. I'd write him again, same story. We could never get the dealer/inspector in trouble over it even though it was obvious he was either falsifying the statement of correction or was totally deaf. How do you win?
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Today's Featured Article - Bad Vibes - by Curtis Von Fange. One of the strangest ways to communicate with our tractor is to ask it how it feels. "Ask it how it feels," you say? Yup, ask it how it feels. Now, as with the other articles in this series one has to be able to hear what 'ole blue' is trying to say in response. The nice thing about our old iron friends is that they are usually quite consistent in their response, rather unlike some people I know who might change what they say due to the weather or other mitigating circumstances. But since t
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