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Contact: JD DePaolantonio, MRF Director of Communications and Information
jd@mrf.org (e-mail)
December 10, 2005
#05NR32 - MRF and American Iron Magazine address EPA Issues
The Motorcycle Riders Foundation, in conjunction with American Iron Magazine
is requesting the help of all motorcycle shops, builders, parts and engine
manufacturers, and custom motorcycle owners in protecting your right to
legally build and ride custom motorcycles.
We are asking you to furnish the information necessary to persuade the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make changes to the new highway
motorcycle emissions regulations. We will be asking the EPA to allow
individuals to build more than one EPA exempt custom motorcycle in their
lifetime and to allow small volume manufacturers and shops to build more
than twenty-four custom EPA exempt motorcycles per year. Our proposal to EPA
will incorporate a "non-conformance payment". In addition, our efforts will
include legally modifying existing motorcycles under the same type of
program.
The published article also highlights the possible effects on the
aftermarket industry of a Motorcycle Industry Council (MIC) request asking
EPA to issue a "letter of guidance" which would allow MIC member companies
to sell EPA certified engines for use in kit bikes.
Read the full story in the January 2006 and February 2006 issues of American
Iron Magazine, the January issue of MRF Reports, or online at
http://www.mrf.org/epa.php and the American Iron website at
http://www.aimag.com/. The questionnaire will appear in the January 2006 MRF
Reports, the February issue of American Iron and on the MRF and American
Iron Magazine websites. Your participation is critical to the success of the
project. Please complete the questionnaire today and return it to the MRF at
the address listed. You are encouraged to make copies and give them to your
friends and shop owners in your area.
"The Motorcycle Rider Foundation is the only national motorcyclists rights
organization working with EPA to preserve your right to build and ride the
custom motorcycle of your choice" said Dave Dwyer of the MRF Board of
Directors.
"We have been involved with EPA from the beginning of the rulemaking process
and we intend to keep working with EPA officials for as long as it takes to
effect meaningful change on the rules. The lifestyle choices of our members
depends on the survival of the motorcycle aftermarket industry and their
survival is dependent on our success in securing the creation of a
non-conformance payment program for custom and modified motorcycles".
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permitted with attribution. The Motorcycle Riders Foundation, incorporated
in 1987, is a membership-based, national motorcyclists' rights organization
headquartered in Washington, DC. The first motorcyclists' rights
organization to establish a full-time presence in Washington, DC, the
Motorcycle Riders Foundation is the only Washington voice devoted
exclusively to the street rider. The MRF established MRFPAC in the early
1990s to advocate the election of candidates who would champion the cause of
rider safety and rider freedom.
The MRF proudly claims state motorcyclists' rights organizations and the
very founders of the American riders' rights movement among its leading
members. The MRF is involved in federal and state legislation and
regulations, motorcycling safety education, training, and public awareness.
The MRF provides members and state motorcyclists' rights organizations with
direction and information, and sponsors annual regional and national
educational seminars for motorcyclists rights activists, as well as
publishing a bi-monthly newsletter, THE MRF REPORTS.
