California is no different than the rest of the US in this. Probably because motorcycles account for nearly nothing in terms of actual miles driven/ridden. It’

California is no different than the rest of the US in this. Probably because motorcycles account for nearly nothing in terms of actual miles driven/ridden. It’s incredibly common to find 10+ year old bikes with <10k miles on them. This is ignoring that bikes are basically declining in sales overall too since the 90s. People just notice them because bikes are novel when on the road. No different than seeing an exotic car. See: https://www.bts.gov/content/us-vehicle-miles https://www.bts.gov/content/us-vehicle-miles They’re less than 1% of miles accounted for. Trivial amount. I still think we should adopt Euro5 type standards or something but it’s just not worth fighting over for most of the US. Especially since a large portion of the motorcycle audience is boomers on Harley’s - and that would go counter to their whole lifestyle.