Lights and reflectors?

[CDNRatMan]

LOL years ago I was stationed in Cold Lake AB. My best buddy was returning to the Middle east on a peacekeeping mission after spending Christmas home with his family. I offered to drive him to Edmonton to catch his flight.....my boss was aware of it and that I might be a bit late getting to work. So here we are 0300 in the morning on the 4th of Jan. Moonlight night, road was dry and clear, I come on to the top of the valley I could see all the way across, not a light for miles, speed limit is 90 km, I am cruising along at 115...120 down the hill into the valley, as I go past a cross road I see the Mountie and yup he gets me........I stop he comes over and starts to lecture me about speeding, so I ask if he can skip the speech and give me the ticket because I am going to be late  for work....well that got him going more.....then the good lord should have slapped me......I asked if he had gotten laid before his shift......
I did pay the fine which was rather high, and I think the Mountie could have been more understanding, but I think he was in timmies withdrawal at the time.......pays to shut up sometimes.......

[Tfrank59]

Again they do not stop everyone, they are targeting a select few. They are looking for the dumb a$$'s.
Couple years ago we went for a group ride over to the QC side of the border. I will say half the group had after market pipes. The SQ were right on the Main Street of the small town we were riding through, and one lad decided to impress the 12 and 13 year old girls on the sidewalk and rapped it and rapped his throttle hard. So the group got stopped he was singled out. after the testing of his pipes he was given the option of turning around and going back into Ontario, or having his bike taken to impound....he could chose.....

It's true going out of your way to attract attention isn't smart, but I was reading about some guys that were riding between cities here in Washington state, minding their own business (presumably not breaking any laws), got pulled over by our state patrol and the one guy got a "fix-it ticket" for not having a rear deflector.  Of course he felt he was unfairly singled out but the fact remains he was just riding along on the highway and got pinched. It happens. Most would say it just depends whether the cop had his donut and coffee.

[Tfrank59]

Again they do not stop everyone, they are targeting a select few. They are looking for the dumb a$$'s.
Couple years ago we went for a group ride over to the QC side of the border. I will say half the group had after market pipes. The SQ were right on the Main Street of the small town we were riding through, and one lad decided to impress the 12 and 13 year old girls on the sidewalk and rapped it and rapped his throttle hard. So the group got stopped he was singled out. after the testing of his pipes he was given the option of turning around and going back into Ontario, or having his bike taken to impound....he could chose.....

Yes getting pulled over and shaked down by the police always impresses the girls

[RockinRollin]

When I had the safety on my bike I had to put reflectors on the rear side fenders, then I put bags on that covered them up and have never had an issue with law enforcement. Probably the same in the US as Canada, if you purposely go out of your way to attract attention from law enforcement they will find some reason to give you a ticket otherwise you're fine.

[CDNRatMan]

Again they do not stop everyone, they are targeting a select few. They are looking for the dumb a$$'s.
Couple years ago we went for a group ride over to the QC side of the border. I will say half the group had after market pipes. The SQ were right on the Main Street of the small town we were riding through, and one lad decided to impress the 12 and 13 year old girls on the sidewalk and rapped it and rapped his throttle hard. So the group got stopped he was singled out. after the testing of his pipes he was given the option of turning around and going back into Ontario, or having his bike taken to impound....he could chose.....

[Tfrank59]

Sure yeah that does it for me, thanks. I'm gonna stay south of the border. I do like those round reflectors better than the square ones in fact I've got some round ones on order. Oh yeah I've heard how they check your noise level on the spot.  Just guessing, my bike would probably not pass.

[CDNRatMan]

  Now to see if I can get this correct for you. If the bike is bought with the reflectors on then they are supposed to stay on. But guys will remove them and say they never had them. The rub here is some place and each province is slightly different, some Service centers that do the Safety checks will insist that the vehicle have reflectors for their safety check. Then people remove them.
I swapped my square ones out to round ones over the winter because I like to have as much visibility at night as I can have. Same as the stickers on the bike other than the VIN number plate they can be removed, like the ones about the chain and then the ones on the back fender they can be peeled off.
Signal lights on the front have to be clear or amber lens, rear ones if they are a combination marker signal light they need to be in red, only signal light then amber or clear. So my front ones are amber, my rear ones are red.
Now as far as riding your "American" bike in Canada,now this is normally they will not bother you for something so simple as reflectors, same as my spot lights are on all the time, I have never been stopped for that or questioned about that in all my rides. Now that being said.....you can not be an a$$ hole and be doing dumb a$$ stuff.
In Quebec you can be stopped and your exhaust checked with a hand held device for db levels, you can just pass and if the Suerte De Quebec (State Troopers) want to be pricks they then ask to see your helmet and it had best be a proper DOT approved lid or you are getting a taxi home......lol...
Does that answer your question......

[Tfrank59]

 So this is kind of a weird one but do you guys up there in Canada have to have reflectors on your bikes to be legal? Down here in the US and as far as I know that's most of the states but definitely here in my state of Washington we have to have side and rear reflectors or we'll get ticketed. Reason I ask is I see videos on YouTube of what I think are Canadian bikes and you guys don't have to have, or maybe you do but have removed, the stock reflectors, and you've changed over some of your signal light lenses to other than amber.  Are you guys pushing the envelope or is that OK with law enforcement up there?  I'm trying to do some things to my bike, not quite stripping it down to a bobber, but remove unnecessary stuff and I wish I could take off those darn side reflectors.   I don't really want local law-enforcement to pull me over for anything, even something as minor as equipment.