Comments on: Jesse James Fined for Non Compliant Motorcycles

By: ace

ace — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:42:19 +0000

Been there, donethat managed a rasther large budget for equipment procurement in the AF… If you didn’t spend ALL of last years funds you lost the difference. poor performance reports were revcieved for balancing the biudget..Which lead to alot of 11th hour calls from other ‘acccount managers ” hey Im so and so from such and such can you guys spend X hundred thousand dollars by friday????? Thanks, saved my butt,send me the account #…
I associate CARB with Joan Claybrook(?) nhtsa safety witch who designed the “safe ” motorcycle in the early 70’s that looked like giant hamster ball.. I don’t want any government tryingto protect me from myself thanks…
Carb was clearly vindictive here.as was noted the bikes are still “polluting”. They claim there’s a “huge” problem with 49cc 2stroke weed whackers…and other lawn equipment. Strains credibilityto the breaking point.Less gov thank you…

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:55:25 +0000

Personally, I experienced the governments wise choice of conservation in the Navy. If we wanted an increase in supplies, we would have to show need. More often than not, needing more supplies AND getting them was solved by throwing overboard the supplies we had left before entering port. This by orders from the Captain, a gov official. We had to use ALL supplies in order to “re-up”, understand? These are the people paying thousands of dollars for, say maybe, four screws and one toilet seat. Why are they going after easy self-employeed prey who save our precious gasoline, and not going after the smog generating coporate airlines, trains, lots of factories, the trucking industry and the list goes on. Of course they pay more in re-election campaign monies (coporations) than Jesse James, or even Harley Davidson for that matter. Government for the government, by the government and………..gee, we forgot. Most be another department of the government that can finish that statement. Before I am wisked off to parts unknown, this is the best government in the world. Just ask me or any other Vietnam Vets.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:14:16 +0000

CARB supposedly fined Jessee because they were worried about clean air. Since Jessee paid the fine and the bikes are still not pollution compliant does that mean the owners can also be fined. Are these bikes being fined twice…first Jess, 2nd the owners? Sounds like CARB is incompetent, about money, or both. Good example you set there CARB!

By: discontinuuity

discontinuuity — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:26:49 +0000

I’m having trouble making heads or tales of these new environmental regulations. They seem full of loopholes and red tape that have the potential to make the air cleaner for everyone, but at the cost of screwing over a lot of the small custom shops. Part of me wants to make a lot of noise and “stick it to the man,” but then I take a walk down the (not very busy) mainstreet in my town and inhale a cloud of nasty exhaust from diesel trucks, poorly tuned old jalopies, and cold catalysts. That usually makes me hope for even more regulation and testing.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:46:06 +0000

i’m admittedly new to the whole bike thing, but cars i know pretty well. ever read a car mag that deals with modifications? most of them are based in California. a few of them even preach AND practice clean emissions on their street cars. the point of this is – cars can be made to be quite fast and streetable – above their standard factory configurations – while still maintaining strict CARB regulation. now why can’t bikes be, first allowed by CARB to do so, and then by the tuners themselves?