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Giles wrote: "...hasn't Calif banned 2 stroke sales there or is planning on doing so?"

You know, you're question has made me think I need to do a longer post on the whole Two-stroke FUD thing. A quick Google search on "california two-stroke ban" turned up all kinds of wild rumors and half-truths, with only a bit of real data mixed in. It's kind of hard to find the truth anymore, which means something in and of itself. And when you get to the truth, it's nothing like the rumors.

So I'm going to write a speculative/op-ed piece on how the two-stroke FUD got started, why it is so pervasive, and how we will move past it. It will not be definitive, and it will be subject to much correction if people point out errors. But it will be based on as much truth as I've been able to learn over the past year from research and personal conversations with industry people, tied together with what I know to be provable patterns of behavior in big business.

We'll see how it turns out.