Here is a quick short story on the HD thing Juras if you wanna know. Basically EPA and some other law places are trying to close out the custom bike scene for good. So they are saying in 2006 California law will be that noone can have more than 1 custom chopper or bike that doesn't meet the new inspection laws in their lifetime and that they can't sell the custom bike until they have had it for 5 years or more. Then by 2010 it will be like this throughout the entire US. I thought maybe it was a joke or a rumor but so far it's true (it's on that Club Chopper, gotta just search for it and it's all over there too). They said that HD is trying to help EPA pass this law since HD already uses their crappy cat back exhausts and all the new emissions parts on their bikes so they don't care and that way it will be better for them because either people will have to buy from them or nothing. So basically it's like they are shutting down all their competition and it will make their job easier than ever.
That is not the only thing and I just skipped tons of info, etc but you get the deal. To me it's a bunch of bull and they are trying to get all these people on this site to sign some thing and send it in and all but I hear that wont work and wont change nothing. Stupid tree huggers, I swear. They think cutting down on emission laws will help, it never will, air is already polluted it wont get better and it wont stay the same so no point in doing that.
Now if this is true then I wonder what will happen to hot rods in about another 50 or so years. Most guys here wont care about 50 or 70 years down the road since (not being mean) they wont even be here but I sure hope to live that long and if they do something like this then they can just kill me because all I will have left that I like is guitar and drums, that's it.
Sorry to babble on about this and yeah it probably sounds like a bunch of crap to you guys but the chopper forums isn't the only place I am hearing this around.