Your Bike and the EPA

[John21]

I am posting this on more than one sight.

I have read quite a bit about guys swapping out cams, re-jetting carbs, remapping injection curves, and modifying anything to gain a performance edge. All I can says is that a lot of you will have consequences to pay in the future.

My two motorcycles were registered in Arizona. Arizona is very strict on polution inspections. If you do not pass, you cannot get plates. It's that simple.

I keep my bikes 100% stock. I don't modify my jetting or remap my injection. I don't even swap to a K&N air filter.

When your motorcycle came from England, it met certain standards for each year. If you modify anything, it is extremely wise to go to a cycle shop and make sure you can pass the inspection. If you cannot pass, better remove the mod.

Maybe of you live in states where checks are not performed? At this point, so do I. But, I know they are coming in the near future to all 50 states.

If you modified your motorcycle, you will face two choices. Never ride it again or spend a lot of money to put it back and get it approved in the EPA emissions test.

Back to states requiring an emissions test, when buying a vehicle that is used, people doing the purchasing are requiring that the vehicle can pass the SMOG test. If you can't pass this tests and think you can sell the bike to someone else in that same state, better think again. If you buy any used motorcycle and don't check first, no matter how fast that motorcycle is, you could have bought a major lemon.

Just my thought (or warning)

John

[OGSpeed3]

John, you are wrong in that it is not the persons responsibility who buys the car to have it pass smog, it is the seller, at least in california that is a fact, and your thoughts on not modifing anything on your bike are ok, but if they do decide to start smogging bikes, more than likely they will grandfather in all the older bikes

I'm not worried

[seumas]

No smog test here for bikes; my '94 F250 with 200K miles which burns a quart of oil every 500 miles passes smog check. I'm not too worried about the bike.

There are a lot of smog-legal mods you can do for cars and trucks, including cams, exhaust etc. I'm sure smog-legal parts would become available for bikes too, if they ever start testing them.

[Turin]

I live in Arizona as well and take my bikes through inspection every year. They all pass every time, and all of them have been modified. (pipes, jetted/chipped, K&Ns etc.) It's not like the inspectors are motorcycle experts judging a concours show.

[Skullza]

No worries here in Massachusetts either. I agree that if it ever comes to this (and there are NO indications that it will) there will certainly be a grandfather clause. (And, I still have all my original components in boxes.) I believe I read in American Motorcylist that Denver is considering forbidding use of any non OEM parts - not OEM-like, but REAL OEM - related to emissions, from intake to muffler. However, there is an uproar and AMA Legislative team is on the case.

[RI_g®eg]

it'll never happen