You gotta read this from the Ca DMV!

[Chris142]

Concerning off road bikes and atv's.

We have green stickers which mean that you can ride year round in legal areas.

We have red stickers which mean that you can only ride in winter in legal areas.

Now we have blue too!
Blue sticker registration allows you to ride the first two weeks of all even months –AND- the last two weeks of odd months. Additionally, if the 8th digit of your VIN number is an even number or a letter between A-M, you can ride the 3rd week of any month containing at least (no less than) 5 full calendar weeks. This additional VIN number limitation doesn’t apply if the 3rd number of your VIN is a: 1, 4, 7, A, L, F or N –OR- if your bike was manufactured between November 2005 – April 2006 –OR- January 2007 – March 2007.

Moreover, Blue Sticker registration is only valid for state-run OHV areas, BLM land & state park land. It IS NOT valid on USFS land. Should you choose to ride on USFS land and your bike is registered with a Blue Sticker, you must also have in you possession (posted in clear site on the left fork of your bike) a notarized exemption form US002-CN4.004s signed by the district ranger. This exemption is NOT required if your bike was manufactured between March 2003 – April 2005.

 

[Gary Allan]

is right

This sounds more like a way to construct a ticket writing campaign than anything else.

 

[moribundman]

Bizarre.

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you can ride the 3rd week of any month containing at least (no less than) 5 full calendar weeks.

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Gotta go get me a calendar of weeks based on ISO 8601 week notation!

 

[oilyriser]

Have you ever heard of social security re-payment withholding?

In Toronto, some places you're allowed to park until midnight; other places until 12:01am.

They have 5 week months in the US? I must have missed that.

 

[Master ACiD]

in good ol florida its like $30 a year for off road registration, it don't matter what you drive what year its made or what engine it has. the only rule is you need spark arrestors to run in parks and state run recreational areas, but its not enforced. i know plenty of guys running bikes and atv's with no stickers or arrestors and no one ever checks.
i also don't run a spark arrestor. i have a 2 stroke that uses premix. the odds of me throwing a lit spark are pretty slim. i've never actually seen a 2 stroke throw a spark. but anyways the places i ride are sandy desert like areas. theres nothing to ignite if i ever did.

cali has some messed up ohv rules. ive heard about those red and green stickers. green sticker bikes and quads are worth 2x as much. yet another reason ill never go there.

 

[tom slick]

This is the first I have heard of the Blue sticker, including OHV sites that I visit. do you have a reference for it?

 

[Tempest]

It's the California--Government...nothing surprising here.

 

[moribundman]

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They have 5 week months in the US? I must have missed that.

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If you have 12 months in a year and 52 weeks in a year, four months of the year will be 5-week months.

 

[oilyriser]

But if a month has five FULL calendar weeks, that's 35 days... unless Sundays have been eliminated.

 

[moribundman]

ISO Standard 8601 says a week begins on Monday and ends on Sunday. Also, the first week of a year must contain the first Thursday of the year or January 4th, because the first week of the year must be at least four days long. Should January 1st fall on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, the first few days of the year count as part of the last week of the previous year.

 

[Al]

Stickers mean nothing if you are an illegal. Just do what you want and Cali will give you even more benefits.

 

[moribundman]

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Stickers mean nothing if you are an illegal. Just do what you want and Cali will give you even more benefits.

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Sometimes the illegal aliens can be very generous: Miwok, Kawok, Tipai-Ipai and many other native tribes of California are still thankful to the intruders for providing cozy reservations, super-education and legal gambling.

 

[Al]

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Sometimes the illegal aliens can be very generous: Miwok, Kawok, Tipai-Ipai and many other native tribes of California are still thankful to the intruders for providing cozy reservations, super-education and legal gambling.

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Hahahaha...true enough. Wish we could do as well as these guys:

 

[wantin150]

I got a headache trying to make sense of that garbage.

 

[Pablo]

Nice. Just shoot off an e-mail to Arnie. He'll fix it.

That's like a bad marriage of Ayn Rand and George Orwell.

 

[XS650]

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It's the California--Government...nothing surprising here.

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I would never understimate the California gumnt's ability to complicate something, but so far it's just an an attributed post on BITOG.

Can anyone actually quote from a valid source?

 

[mechtech2]

Is that for real?

 

[Drew99GT]

That's worse than the AMT...

 

[Gary Allan]

http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1234

 

[GeaugaFletcher]

Originally Posted By: moribundman
ISO Standard 8601 says [argle bargle]...


Thank you, EU. Take your RoHS and shove it. Teach your pedestrians how to cross a street successfully like my 8 year old nephew can. California is evidently catching up to you. If you can't be a _good_ influence, I'm going to send a box of raccoon poop to the UN and another to Brussels.

Hugs and kisses,
MiddleAmerica