Maine Citizens for Quiet Motorvehicles

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Maine Citizens for Quiet Motorvehicles

The difficulties with finding the EPA label on the muffler isn't an obstacle to effective enforcement as proven in Denver. If a state adopts the EPA label law, it's a simple matter to require that the loud biker show the police officer where the label is located on the muffler or mufflers.

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COMMENT- only one; NOTE: changing wording "EPA label" to "CFR 40-205":

Larry Deal The problem is, it doesn't take much for the police and the state policy makers, who are reluctant to tackle the motorcycle noise problem at all, to be turned off from implementing any proposed enforcement method that requires effort on their part to carry out. To them, looking for the EPA labels is not as easy as falling off a log. They are seeking a method that takes no effort at all. This 'study' that the bikers put together is more than enough to spook the state officials. They have poisoned the EPA label law and the word "label" is where the bikers poison is concentrated.

The state officials can't see the forest for the trees. That poisonous "label" word is blinding them. Hey guys, I stronlgy suggest we stop using the term "EPA label law", and selling the adoption of CFR 40-205 based on finding the EPA label of compliance. Until the EPA gets of their behinds and forces the manufactures to put the label where it belongs, we are not going to be very successful in selling the "EPA label law".

Have you noticed that I always refer to CFR 40-205 as the" EPA regulations for motorcycle exhausts". That is intentional. I am avoiding the poison word, "label". The state officials have to be made to realize that they should simply be prohibiting non-EPA compliant exhaust systems. Those mufflers are much easier to spot. As I have been trying to make everyone over at MECALM realize, over 90% of the after market motorcycle exhaust manufactures are known not to offer a single EPA compliant muffler in their product line, and nearly all of them plaster their logo in very readily visible places to advertise their illegal products. This is what we should be selling.

So, if the state adds this prohibition to their law, the police will have another enforcement choice. They can determine which takes less effort, conducting a road side sound test, or glancing at the in-your-face, look-at-me, look-at-me, I'm an after market non-EPA compliant muffler. Which do you think takes less effort? And which do you think takes less money to implement? Yesterday at 9:33am