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A slightly ammended version of dontpanic's letter to the state:
Originally Posted by Composed by my frined, Chuck (NHFZ1)
Dear Representatives,
I strongly urge you to reconsider the proposed House Bill 95 relative to motorcycle equipment and noise levels. The unintended impact to the state economy is likely to be far more significant than you might have imagined.
1. The immediate impact is likely to be a significant reduction of income to the state's economy. The requirement for tachometers in particular is in contravention of Federal standards, and will preclude the sales of many, many motorcycles in the state. Motorcycle dealers will be impacted. They are your constituents, and voters.
2. The greater impact is likely to be derived from a major decline in attendance at motorcycle week events. You are aware, no doubt, of the economic benefit that this event has on the state, but I suggest that a 50% decline in attendance due to the proposed regulations would have another, major impact on the incomes of your constituents, your voters.
3. As an aside, I find it puzzling that motorcycles are singled out in the proposal. If noise is truly the issue, I suggest the following: amend the proposal to apply the same standards to passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and construction equipment.
4. The proposed legislation would require law enforcement to be familiar with all years, makes and models of motorcycles to determine, by roadside inspection, if there had been any modification to the stock exhaust. I believe this would be difficult to implement, time consuming, cumbersome, and very difficult to enforce.
5. The current laws, RSA 266:59 and RSA 266:59a, are in place to handle the issue of excessive noise. I believe these current laws adequate, fair and merely need to be enforced.
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And all this without any explanation of why the existing statute on the books is insufficient to deal with the problem (they should be amending that law if it isn't working, not creating a new one).
. . . but I was dismayed they didn't stick around to hear some very interesting points made by the people who testified - the sponsors really owe it to themselves and to all of us to get educated on the subject BEFORE they start drafting legislation.
