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What a pro-motorcycle law looks like
An extremely rare event, Virginia has signed a pro-motorcycle bill into law. HB 187 will prevent law enforcement officials from establishing motorcycle-only checkpoints on public roads. C. Todd Gilbert (R-Shenandoah) introduced the bill after Arlington police exclusively targeting motorcycles for safety inspections during a POW/MIA ride. “If officials are really concerned about motorcyclists’ ...
06 March 2012
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It’s legal to sell dirt bikes to kids again
On Friday, President Obama signed an amendment to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 into law, categorically excluding motorcycles and ATVs from the list of lead-containing, child-targeted products banned from sale. We broke the story that CPSIA would ban children’s bikes back in January, 2009, a move that’s estimated to have cost the industry up to $1 billion a year in lost s...
15 August 2011
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How to steal a GSX-R
Five seconds is all it takes for this cop to hot-wire a CBR. A GSX-R isn't much harder. Snap the steering lock, plug in a "pigtail," and off you go. This video, which appears to be from 2007 (judging by the bikes), was uploaded two weeks ago and shows just how easy it is to steal a bike. It's just as unnerving now as when it was shot.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwtMQLnT7k&sns=fb On January f...
02 May 2011
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New Jersey gets serious about motorcycle safety
There’s a host of motorcycle safety laws that’ve been rolled out nationwide recently. Oregon is mandating MSF-style training for all new riders by 2015, California now requires under 21s to complete an MSF class and Utah only allows you to operate a motorcycle as large as the one you test on. Now New Jersey is defining license tiers based on engine capacity and creating a new classification fo...
04 February 2011
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Arnold terminates loud pipes
The Governator has signed into law California Senate Bill 435, giving police the ability to cite motorcyclists for running non-EPA stamped exhausts. Calm down, the law’s not all that bad. Cops’ll have to find another excuse to pull you over in the first place and the max fine for a repeat offense is only $250; it only affects model year 2013 bikes and newer. We have ourselves to blame. Full te...
29 September 2010
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The facts behind Europe's pending 100 HP motorcycle limit
There's a lot of sensational misinformation surrounding proposed European Union regulations that could see all motorcycles sold there restricted to 100 HP, so we've asked Norwegian journalist Ivar Kvadsheim to break things down for us. Even if the power limit doesn't become law, it looks like mandatory ABS and linked brakes could.>Background: - EU is working on new legislation for motorcycles. Loa...
31 March 2010
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Denver to possibly designate bike parking
While the city of New York continues enforcing crazy anti-biker Draconian laws, Denver's Director of Development Engineering Services, Rob Duncanson, is on the verge of getting 20 dedicated bike parking zones put in place throughout downtown Denver. That's right. A large city in the United States is actually considering modifying its street-parking infrastructure to accomodate motorcycles and larg...
06 May 2009