Comments on: The State of California’s Ridiculous Plan to do Smog test on Motorcycles. https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/ Biker and Motorcycle Accident Lawyer, Top Biker Lawyer, Biker Attorney, Motorcycle Accident Lawyer, Motorcycle Accident Attorney, Legal Issues, Safety Tips, Videos, Links to Motorcycle and legal sites, Motorcycle Ride Reports and General Personal Injury! For a Free Consultation on Your Motorcycle Accident Case, Call 800-816-1529 x. 1 Sun, 18 Dec 2022 13:32:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Norman Gregory Fernandez https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/#comment-1688 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:43:43 +0000 #comment-1688 The program is shelved for now. I would bet that it will come back eventually. With respect to stock pipes, you can still be stopped for loud pipes depending upon the aftermarket pipes that you have. They could write a fix it ticket which would require you to put the stokers on to remedy.

Either way it is a good idea to keep the stock pipes!

Norm

]]> By: Norman Gregory Fernandez https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/#comment-1684 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:21:30 +0000 #comment-1684 Kasper long time no hear from my friend. They opened up Angeles Crest all the way through. We have to take a ride soon. I am moving in the next couple of weeks, after that lets ride!

As far as the recession, well I think the grass is greener but we are not out of the woods.

Norm

]]> By: Norman Gregory Fernandez https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/#comment-1677 Sun, 31 May 2009 17:03:28 +0000 #comment-1677 No Walt I did not hear about San Francisco rousting bikers about their pipes. I will look into it and if it is happening, I will write a story about it. I ride Frisco a lot and have never had any problems.

The actual pipe laws are that you are not supposed to modify your stock exhaust system, and if you replace your pipes, they have to be with “EPA” certified pipes. I have never seen a set of aftermarket pipes with a EPA certification on them.

I am glad I kept the Stock Pipes for my Electra Glide!

Norm

]]> By: Norman Gregory Fernandez https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/#comment-1674 Sat, 30 May 2009 11:05:50 +0000 #comment-1674 You got that right Patrick.

Norm

]]> By: Patrick https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/#comment-1645 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1645 This law is the dumbest law to date! The state is laying off workers to meet budget,wanting to release prisioners to meet budget! NOW THEY WANT TO PASS A LAW TO TEST MOTORCYCLES FOR emissions? Most biker’s ride for pleasure! I live in Florida and I only ride 5,000 miles a year! That’s about adverage. How much polution could I put in the air at 5,00 miles a year? I guest my 95″ Deuce must put out alot of emission’s while sitting in my garage under the cover on a battery tender!!

]]> By: Tim https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/#comment-1647 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1647 Patrick, after they release the prisoners, maybe they’ll find these legislature’s and bite em in the arse….What a screwed up system!

]]> By: eliza https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/#comment-1651 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1651 That’s really true.I am in favor of the views that have been posted about this website.I was looking for a website of similar nature and finally i found one for myself
Eliza

]]> By: Patrick https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/#comment-1673 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1673 The new budget calls for closing 50 state parks, and laying off 1500 to 2000
park workers. I think that would reduce emissions greatly! However we want to test motorcycles to make sure the have stock exhaust!! Another great idea!

]]> By: walt martin https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/#comment-1676 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1676 also , did you hear that san fran is writing tickets for loud pipes? $25 and requirement to put stock pipes back on! i agree that straight pipes are too loud but all after market pipes? i want them to hear me coming! i have vance and hines blacked out shorties on my 08 crossbones. do you think this loudness thing is a double-edged sword to force everyone to go back to stock?
damn cagers lose their jobs while the state goes bankrupt, but want to spend millions to implement a smog program for the few of us that ride! go figure???? fools don’t know what important. got their priorties screwed up. know what i mean?

]]> By: kasper https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/#comment-1681 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1681 Is it the end of recession…? Finally some good news.

And in southern California the grass is gray, not green.

]]> By: walt martin https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/#comment-1687 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1687 norm,
i too have my stock pipes in the garage. i figure one day they’ll screw us and i’ll need them. why give them to harley so they can resale them to me or some other poor schmuck. they make enough money off of us without giving them a freebie. keep up the good work! p.s. happy to hear they “shelved” the motorcycle smog program. you are a wealth of info!!

]]> By: Kristine Green https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/#comment-1707 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1707 Thanks for the update. I was reading the AMA site about this and couldn’t quite figure out what they meant by changing the bill. If you read, even a little bit of the text of the bill, you can see that it is mostly about how to implement smog check stations for motorcycles. Changing it so smog checks aren’t required would make the bill useless.

]]> By: Chad https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/#comment-1744 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1744 I’m a little confused about this. I read the amended bill, and the only thing that has changed from the previous amendment is that they will now pay your a max of $500 if you agree to scrap your bike for not passing the smog check. Can someone clarify this? I did a comparison of the old, and new PDF documents, and there is very little change beyond what I mentioned.

]]> By: Kevin https://bikerlawblog.com/the-state-of-california-s-ridiculous-pla/#comment-1762 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1762 This shit is so ignorant. Who sits around and thinks up Bill’s like this. If everyone rode motorcycles even without converters then there would be no smog problem in California. I get 40MPG on my bike. How on earth does this put out more smog then accountants driving around in F250’s and suburbans getting 10MPG. WTF

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