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You must be running out of room with all those bikes. As a personal favor I'll let you store it at my house, free of charge. I'll even bob it for you.....No, don't thank me... it's what I do.....
Did the ton on my Dyna on my way to work this morning at 0-dark-30 to ring in the New Year. 110 mph, 45 degrees and raining. My annual mud check LOL. took a little longer to get there than on my Triumph but just as much fun.....
Did the ton on my Dyna on my way to work this morning at 0-dark-30 to ring in the New Year. 110 mph, 45 degrees and raining. My annual mud check LOL. took a little longer to get there than on my Triumph but just as much fun.....
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Something coal-fired, or maybe spend some of those hundreds of thousands they get for their rolling trainwrecks to develop a hi-tech oil-injection/combustion system for the exhaust so they can have something that rumbles around belching noxious clouds of jet-black smoke from their ear-splitting open pipes.........
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This really is a crock of sh|t. Laws have been on the books forever and not enforced because it would be difficult and expensive to do but it still irks me to no end that a bunch of self important bureaucrats from the EPA and the United Nations think that they know what is good for us concerning our motorcycles. Our motorcycles do not contribute to global pollution in any measurable way and to be told that I can't modify my bike infuriates me. This used to be a free country, we should start acting like it again. It just may be time for another tea party only this time it will be against the very officials that we have elected.
Kick them out starting with the UN, then Congress and the Senate.
Kick them out starting with the UN, then Congress and the Senate.
Don't worry guys, just like you all spend so much time putting |||| and **** or @@@@ into the M|ddle 0f @ll your [email protected] w0rd$ so the sensorship police won't squash you, people will get around this to. Say a company comes out with a new exhaust; then get it CARB certified, or an intake, or just a k&n, all comes to the same thing.
Just like the little ricer guys. All those cars still have to pass CA emissions, and it won't be much longer before they start tailpiping our bikes too.
Boy won't that be fun. There will be a special machine, with four gas analyzers (for quad-tipped bikes), and there will only be one or two within like 400 miles of you, so you'll have to ride it there, you'll get a flat, and end up staying at some rundown motel 6 for the night, all in all your smog test runs you about $450.00 every couple years no big deal right?
ACK! That's all my bikes worth!
Just like the little ricer guys. All those cars still have to pass CA emissions, and it won't be much longer before they start tailpiping our bikes too.
Boy won't that be fun. There will be a special machine, with four gas analyzers (for quad-tipped bikes), and there will only be one or two within like 400 miles of you, so you'll have to ride it there, you'll get a flat, and end up staying at some rundown motel 6 for the night, all in all your smog test runs you about $450.00 every couple years no big deal right?
ACK! That's all my bikes worth!
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What, you used the word "*******" and the cencorship did not pick it. Maybe the software was U.K. origin where they use "arsehole"?
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>Modern vehicles are better in every way & generate about 1/20 th the pollutants.
Not so fast. I just read from a car mag a "comparo" between an early ´50s chevy pick up with a recent one. They were just shy of 50 years of age difference. The new one used 50% more gas. OK so it was a V8 vs. straight six, A/C etc etc, but still. 50 years!
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Not so fast. I just read from a car mag a "comparo" between an early ´50s chevy pick up with a recent one. They were just shy of 50 years of age difference. The new one used 50% more gas. OK so it was a V8 vs. straight six, A/C etc etc, but still. 50 years!
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Plus, at that rundown motel 6, in your drunken stupor, you bonk some frequent flyer pregnant. This would handily exceed your bike´s worth, not to mention your wife´s settlement would have the bike anyway.
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To all you people who think this doesn't affect you: Regardless of your reason... you ride an old bike..., you think too many people ride loud bikes..., you believe the laws won't get enforced, etc..., you're not thinking this through. This encarnation may not affect you, but the next one will. Don't think they'll pass one law and stop there.
This is a classic example of how the incremental erosion of our FREEDOMS happen. They start with something common sense, that the least number of people will resist. Once that foothold is established there's no going back. They gradually add to the original (seemingly benign) law, a few lines at a time, until one day you wake up and they've added a clause that does affect you.
Wake up people! It's not a huge leap to imagine the day when helmets are mandatory (not just in Cali), engine dispalcement and horsepower are limited, or even, old bikes (polluters) are outlawed.
This is a classic example of how the incremental erosion of our FREEDOMS happen. They start with something common sense, that the least number of people will resist. Once that foothold is established there's no going back. They gradually add to the original (seemingly benign) law, a few lines at a time, until one day you wake up and they've added a clause that does affect you.
Wake up people! It's not a huge leap to imagine the day when helmets are mandatory (not just in Cali), engine dispalcement and horsepower are limited, or even, old bikes (polluters) are outlawed.
It's not really an issue. New bikes are increasingly difficult and unnecessary to modify, so new laws about tampering with new bikes is just not an issue. It's the old bikes that can be modified and are fun to modify, but new laws are rarely, if ever applied to older machines. Anyway, it's already against the law in California to modify any part of the engine system since way back. But, the laws are not enforced. And this is not trivial. Local law enforcement and especially Highway Patrol are stretched so thin they couldn't possibly stop the illegal bikes.
DMV could make you test your bike for emissions to get a tag, the way they do cars, but it'll take years to define the test, set limits and license the shops to do the testing. And even then it would be for the new bikes not the old ones, just like the way they phased-in testing for cars.
Worry about something else.
DMV could make you test your bike for emissions to get a tag, the way they do cars, but it'll take years to define the test, set limits and license the shops to do the testing. And even then it would be for the new bikes not the old ones, just like the way they phased-in testing for cars.
Worry about something else.
"This is a classic example of how the incremental erosion of our FREEDOMS happen."
It's also a classic example of how a minority of a$$holes catch the public's attention, leading to calls for politicians to "do something."
Every time some idiot pops a wheelie in traffic or blasts a baby's eardrums with his open pipes, he succeeds in drawing the attention he so pathetically craves. And the rest of us who are smart and secure enough to fly under the radar end up suffering.
"To all you people who think this doesn't affect you..."
Oh, but I do. That's why these a-holes pi$$ me off.
It's also a classic example of how a minority of a$$holes catch the public's attention, leading to calls for politicians to "do something."
Every time some idiot pops a wheelie in traffic or blasts a baby's eardrums with his open pipes, he succeeds in drawing the attention he so pathetically craves. And the rest of us who are smart and secure enough to fly under the radar end up suffering.
"To all you people who think this doesn't affect you..."
Oh, but I do. That's why these a-holes pi$$ me off.
"This is a classic example of how the incremental erosion of our FREEDOMS happen."
It's also a classic example of how a minority of a$$holes catch the public's attention, leading to calls for politicians to "do something."
Every time some idiot pops a wheelie in traffic or blasts a baby's eardrums with his open pipes, he succeeds in drawing the attention he so pathetically craves. And the rest of us who are smart and secure enough to fly under the radar end up suffering.
"To all you people who think this doesn't affect you..."
Oh, but I do. That's why these a-holes pi$$ me off.
It's also a classic example of how a minority of a$$holes catch the public's attention, leading to calls for politicians to "do something."
Every time some idiot pops a wheelie in traffic or blasts a baby's eardrums with his open pipes, he succeeds in drawing the attention he so pathetically craves. And the rest of us who are smart and secure enough to fly under the radar end up suffering.
"To all you people who think this doesn't affect you..."
Oh, but I do. That's why these a-holes pi$$ me off.
OK so it was a V8 vs. straight six, A/C etc etc, but still. 50 years!
This "comparison" is so flawed it's usless! Show me a comparison of a BASE model, light duty pickup with the exact same options as the 50s model.
I wonder why you didn't mention the test results
in the following areas:
Cold starting
Emissions
Drivability
payload capacity
comfort
saftey
handling
braking
Old trucks are nice - as long as you don't have to use them on a daily basis.
This "comparison" is so flawed it's usless! Show me a comparison of a BASE model, light duty pickup with the exact same options as the 50s model.
I wonder why you didn't mention the test results
in the following areas:
Cold starting
Emissions
Drivability
payload capacity
comfort
saftey
handling
braking
Old trucks are nice - as long as you don't have to use them on a daily basis.
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We aren't allowed to change our tires anymore? This article sounds like senseless hype driven by someone's vested interest in the custom chopper business. I tell you this, where I live, no one much cares what you do to your bike, certainly not the DMV. About the only thing that might get you a ticket is a fully open exhaust. And possibly a lack of license plate or tail light (though even riding a full-on racebike doesn't generate the attention that one might suspect, as it turns out.)
Those states that actually enforce such nonsense are the domain of the people that live there. Get it changed. If you can't, move.
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