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Pipes

Question for Alanrider7-

How are custom bike builders like West Coast Choppers supposed to comply with the law if they manufacture their own exhausts? Just curious.

I'm not sure, but they might qualify for an exemption because they're not producing bikes in volume. One off show bikes might be considered a little differently. If not, the Jesse James is basically telling CARB to fuck off. :laughing
 
You can make something like 50/ bikes a year and it does not have to be compliant. iirc. I read that somewhere.
 
I'm not sure, but they might qualify for an exemption because they're not producing bikes in volume. One off show bikes might be considered a little differently. If not, the Jesse James is basically telling CARB to fuck off. :laughing

As I recall, JJ got popped by CARB for selling non-legal bikes a couple years ago.
 
So exactly when officials start ticketing aftermarket exhausts which don't meet EPA? I just got 2003 SV1000 and am thinking about aftermarket Yoshimura. I see MANY motorcycles with loud pipes still. Some Harley or Jp-made Harley look alike are so loud but they don't seem to get any tickets...not too many of them anyway. My buddy, however, got a fix-it ticket for using a short pipe he bought off eBay. He wasn't using the decibel killer so his GSXR was extremely loud. Still it was as loud as most straight piped Harley.
 
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