The American Motorcylist Association reports that the California Air Resources Board completed an investigation of the Power Commander ignition module produced by DynoJet Research, and found it to be in violation of the agency's emissions standards...

CARB said that the installation of these devices would adversely affect the emissions control systems of vehicles that were certified by the original equipment manufacturers to comply with the agency's emissions standards. Dynojet has now certified a California version of the "Power Commander" and has agreed to pay $1,000,000 in penalties to the California Air Pollution Control Fund.

Labels: California Motorcycle Laws, Motorcycle Emissions

This afternoon a couple of buddies of mine and myself came up with a way to reduce carbon emissions from motorcycle clubs.

The idea came up during a discussion on how people are spending hundreds of dollars each year buying up green energy credits with the understanding that someone is going to put more green energy into the power grid.

Our riding club will sell energy credits to the public in exchange for buying more efficient motorcycles. When you purchase energy credits from us, we promise to save up the money and replace our air-cooled Harleys with modified exhausts and intakes, and replace them with eco-friendly, water-cooled, fuel-injected, metric bikes, with stock exhausts.

We'll then be riding bikes that produce less emissions, get better gas mileage, and produce less noise.

So, who would like to buy some credits, and help us save the planet?

Labels: Green Energy, Motorcycle Emissions

A short article published by Auto Express says that motorcycles are 16 times more polluting than cars, based on a new study.

The study conducted at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Testing and Research in Dübendorf found bikes emit far more noxious hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide than cars.

Not much information is provided, but I suppose provides some food for thought.

Labels: Motorcycle Emissions