Motorcycle Makers Must Cut Emissions

Honda Motor Co., Harley-Davidson Inc. and other motorcycle makers must cut tailpipe exhaust by 60% starting in 2006, U.S. regulators said in the first such change since 1978.

The rules require so-called highway motorcycles, including Honda’s Gold Wing and Harley’s Fat Boy, as well as scooters and mopeds to emit less smog-forming hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides, the Environmental Protection Agency said.

After 2007, the EPA will require fuel hoses and tanks that curb pollution from gasoline evaporation, the agency said.

From Bloomberg News