CA wants to smog check motorcycles

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Zoomie, it's really easy to fall into the "us vs them" trap. You can either believe a conspiracy or you can believe you don't have all the facts. I almost always choose the latter as it's more in line with Occam's Razor: “The simplest explanation for a phenomenon is most likely the correct explanation."

I'm sure your numbers are right - but they don't tell the whole story. Specifically my guess is they are estimates based on pollution numbers from the factories based on stock machines i.e. motorcycles are not a big problem when they have all the CC and pollution equipment installed. In other words, IMO the numbers you quote don't show the current state but the best case state. Seen in that light, the numbers quoted in the article no longer seem like panic/FUD/bias/wrong to me.

Originally Posted by azoomm

They ARE based on those numbers. But, spun so they serve the purpose of panic. Welcome to media.

That doesn't mean CC aren't needed - it means they are a SMALL, itty bitty, tiny set of the problem that should be addressed. But, because we are the re-headed step children of the motor world - and non-motorcyclist that ARE the majority already see us as a problem - they can't save us from ourselves, so they need to save themselves from us.

I'm really tired of it.

Can't tell, can you?