marauder@fluke.UUCP (Bill Landsborough) (01/24/86)
It seems that between Joan Claybrook (I have been corrected regarding her name) and Stuart M. Statler of the Consumer Product Safety Commission we motorcyclists are in for some interesting "accessories" on our future motorcycles. The current drive in California is to require catalytic converters on all street motorcycles sold in the state. Does anyone know what the latest is on this? The last I heard was it was postponed for more studies. What will they think of next? Bumpers??? Bill Landsborough ---- "Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world." 1John 4:4
darryl@ism780c.UUCP (Darryl Richman) (01/26/86)
I suspect that we Californians will have to submit to cataclismic converters
eventually. The state has been consistently pushing down the hydrocarbon
emissions regulations and now a recent review of previous studies indicates
that lower hydrocarbons by themselves won't do much good -- NOx has got to
go as well. Another bad development was the Yamaha RZ two stroke, which
"proved" that catalytics can be applied successfully to motorcycles. It had
been a popular claim that they were too expensive and too dangerous to put on
bikes (gee, sounds like Detroit 10 years ago).
--Darryl Richman, INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.
...!cca!ima!ism780!darryl
The views expressed above are my opinions only.