smog bill

[booyasmith]

We need help!!!!! S.B. 435 (the motorcycle smog bill) has made it out of committee and will go to the senate floor probably this week (6/1-6/5) sometime. Please...please call, write, e-mail, fax your senator and voice your oppisition to this bill.

[Rippin]

Even though I dont live in Califonia, I think all of us who ride should help in anyway we can to crush this type of crap!! if this passes in California it will certainly migrate up to Oregon and Washington as well! are you not tired of this shit? clamping down on bikers and there scooters should outrage you!

[Renegade]

Phone #'s and e-mails are in red
call or write and tell them to vote NO or shut up and suffer!!
How long will bikers allow big brother to dictate to you about Motorcycles?
they ARE trying to outlaw them, you just haven't noticed yet!


Oppose SB 435 – Stop Smog Checks
for California Motorcycles

Reach the Transportation Committee Chairman at:

Senate Transportation & Housing Committee
Chairman Alan Lowenthal
2032 Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA 95814
Fax: (916) 445-2209

Chair’s Office Telephone: (916) 651-4027 Chair’s e-mail:

senator.lowenthal@sen.ca.gov

Call & Fax Your Letter to Each of the Other Senate Transportation & Housing
Committee Members & Tell Them To

Vote NO on SB 435:

Committee Member Fax Number Capitol Phone E-mail

Senator Robert Huff (R–Glendora)

(Vice Chair) (916) 324-0922 (916) 651-4029 senator.huff@sen.ca.gov

Senator Roy Ashburn (R–Bakersfield) (916) 322-3304 (916) 651-4018

senator.ashburn@sen.ca.gov

Senator Mark DeSaulnier (D–Walnut Creek) (916) 445-2527 (916) 651-4007

senator.desaulnier@sen.ca.gov

Senator Tom Harman (R–Costa Mesa) (916) 445-9263 (916) 651-4035

senator.harman@sen.ca.gov

Senator Dennis Hollingsworth (R-Temecula) (916) 447-9008 (916) 651-4036

senator.hollingsworth@sen.ca.gov

Senator Christine Kehoe (D–San Diego) (916) 327-2188 (916) 651-4039

senator.kehoe@sen.ca.gov

Senator Jenny Oropeza (D–Redondo Beach) (916) 323-6056 (916) 651-4028

senator.oropeza@sen.ca.gov

S e n a t o r Fran Pavley (D–S. Monica)

(Author SB 435) (916) 324-4823 (916) 651-4023 senator.pavley@sen.ca.gov

Senator Joe Simitian (D–Palo Alto) (916) 323-4529 (916) 651-4011

senator.simitian@sen.ca.gov

Senator Lois Wolk (D–Vacaville) (916) 323-2304 (916) 651-4005

senator.wolk@sen.ca.gov

Vote No on SB 435

B e c a u s e :

• Motorcycles do not contribute enough pollution
to warrant being included in a smog check
program.
• Motorcycles constitute less than 3% of the total
number of motor vehicles in California and travel
less than 25%, on average, compared to cars and
trucks.
• Motorcycles, because of their low mileage usage
and much higher gas mileage than cars and trucks,
represent only 1.5% of the total for all mobile
source emissions.
• Motorcycle smog checks are an unnecessary
intrusion into motorcycle riders’ lives.
• California motorcycle engine emission standards
were lowered drastically in 2008 making California
motorcycles already the cleanest in the nation.
• There is no evidence that motorcycles that have
been modified for performance or gas economy
reasons emit any more emissions than stock ones.
• The cost to implement and conduct a motorcycle
smog check program will cost California more than
the value of the emissions it’s estimated to save.
• A smog check program for motorcycles will
discourage new motorcycle purchases and
encourage owners, who use their motorcycles
infrequently, to stop using them.
• Motorcycle smog checks were eliminated in
one Arizona county after it was proven that the
program did not reduce emissions enough to
continue the program.
• If motorcycles have to be returned to stock
condition, finding original parts for older bikes
will be impossible because historically, not enough
spare parts were made when they were built.

The simplest way to Address your letters to the Committee Members is like this:

Honorable ____________________,
State Senate, State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814

On February 26, 2009, state Senator Fran Pavley (D–Santa Monica) introduced SB 435 that authorizes
the inclusion of model year 2000 and newer motorcycles in California’s smog check program starting in 2012.
This is the most infamous and wide-reaching assault on California motorcycists since the Helmet Law in 1992.
No other state, or municipality in the country, save one county in Arizona has such a draconian
requirement for checking the engine emissions from motorcycles. This bill, as introduced, contains

NO details
about the program, only the authorization for it to begin in 2012. Those details will be left to the regulators at
the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the Bureau of Auto Repair (BAR).
M o t o rcycle owners will undoubtedly have to replace any non-stock emissions parts that were installed to
i m p rove performance and fuel economy, such as carburetors, fuel injection, charcoal canisters, air cleaners, and
non-catalytic convertors or c o n v e rt o r exhaust systems if catalysts came as original equipment when purchased new.
This program will probably work just as the Smog Check Program works forall other m o t o r vehicles. To re - re g i s t e r
y o u r m o t o rcycle after 2 0 11, you will need to provide proof of passing a smog check, or you won’t be able to re - re g i s t e r it.

What Can Be Done to Stop SB 435?

— Write, Fax, Call & E-mail the Chairman and Members of the
Senate Transportation Committee, T o d a y , Telling Them to Vote NO on SB 435 Using the Contact Numbers and
Talking Points Below! Calling and Faxing remain the most effective way of telling legislators what you want.

ABATEPAC, the Political Action Arm of ABATE of California, 10240 7th Ave., Hesperia, CA 92345 (760) 956-1669

[Pixs]

Hi Renagade,

You're always on top of things dude, thanks for the post.

Best to all,

Pixs

[booyasmith]

Well S.B.435 was voted on in the senate today. Passed 22-17 (I think) with the promise that it would not be in the same way as autos. Not sure how that will be worked out in the asslemby. The langauge to limet it to 2000and newer bikes was put back in. However it only applys to 280 cubic inch and larger. GET INVOLVED OR BUY A MOPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!