[sirmaxwell]

Originally Posted by culcune

Boom! somehow has those Baodiao bikes EPA/DOT and California CARB certified on the same certification as the Vader. I think Venom had them listed as "75 MPH" and kept insisting they actually do hit that speed. Venom has a VERY good reputation, but that claim combined with insisting that they will hit 75 MPH did bring it down a notch in my mind. I mean, why double down on something that far-fetched? Belmonte is the same company as Venom, BTW.

It's funny you brought up emissions because, although Boom is known to have some annoying emissions apparatus that most people remove, Boom International also has had a few issues with emissions including this case which they settled with the US EPA by paying a $30,000 fine.

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production...gsusainc17.pdf

In the case I think basically Boom is using their typical 125cc engines that they are supposed to have an EPA pre approved exhaust/catalyst/emissions stuff on but the EPA went and sampled a bunch of bikes that Boom was recieving from their parent company in CHina and the EPA found that Boom was not using the EPA approved exhaust or emissions whatever and instead they were using a different material and/or different design.

So the US branch of Boom resolved it by paying the fine but also filing in that paper that the bikes were shipped back to China but that the USA branch of BOOM has no paperwork proving the bikes were shipped back to CHina because they say they never actually took delivery of the bikes that failed the EPA sample tests.

I might be wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised if the USA branch of Boom doesn't have paperwork proving the failed bikes were shipped back to China because those bikes were probably sold as is in the USA or Canada or Mexico which is against the agreement in this settlement since the bikes failed EPA standards.

Just a fun little fact I read a couple nights ago before you mentioned Boom emissions and the EPA