For those of you out there who are getting squeezed by Euro5 emissions, you already know the pain, but here in California, the only state in the US that is allowed to set it's own emission standards, the beginning of the end is being planned. Please see the attached document from today's C.A.R.B.Meeting. In short, if you live in Cali or your state follows C.A.R.B. standards like a sick puppy you better plan on your new 2 stroke bike purchase soon. https://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/offroad/orrec/redstickerworkshop_april2017_final_print.pdf
What a joke. I'm so glad I left that place. To hell with em guys. Pack up and get the hell outta dodge. Northern Nv could use all of ya for the racing and riding scene out here! (P.S. we ride two strokes year round). If nv adopts any of that crap I'll go somewhere else just like when I left socal. I miss the place a bit at times but can't put up with their b.s.
I find myself trying to really look at the ocean when I drive up the coast for work. Wanna burn in the memory for when I move back to the United States. I also try to get to the desert when I can for the same reason.
wait... what!? you're not in the US? I thought your were somewhere in north Sandyeggo county or Orange doing tower work? no? (btw, vis-à-vis your CARB comment in april, AFAIK any state can set pollution standards higher than federal. but I'm not totally positive.)
I live in California like you, but it seems the crazy people who run this state act less American with each passing day.
"I live in California like you, but it seems the crazy people who run this state act less American with each passing day." That is so true! Very unfortunately so!
I didn't see anything that alarms me in that document. I had read before that there was talk of eliminating the red sticker program, but my take wasn't that they were phasing out 2 strokes. I understood it to be a positive thing by going to a 1 sticker program. Of course I could be completely wrong.
what's a red sticker????......................sarcasm. Its a tool to make perfectly legit citizens into scofflaws and to add money into some politicians slush fund.
They're talking about if a bike doesn't meet green sticker regulations it won't be allowed on public lands, period.
Seems threatening to me.... especially since I don't have a few hundred acres of my own to ride on haha
Always wondered why trail organizations bothered fighting an uphill battle and just started buying up land with peoples contributions
we have Baja Ca. a few miles to the south, where folks welcome you and wave to you when you ride your dirtbike through the middle of town.
