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[QUOTE="dog, post: 294205, member: 20067"] The following is Mr. Woods reply to my letter. He has some valid points, and it appears his message was taken out of context. What immediately follows is a statement that I have issued regarding the "posting" that you are responding to. I have included some additional comments specific to your concerns at the bottom of the page. A "Position Statement" from the AMA is a very specific thing. Only the AMA's Board of Directors can endorsed an official position on an issue -- such as the AMA's position in support of "Voluntary Helmet Use". The Board of Directors has not given the Government Relations Department any specific direction on the dual-sport conversion issue -- only the overriding principal -- that the AMA does NOT advocate any illegal or irresponsible activities. It would appear that somebody has taken it upon him/her - self to take a message that I wrote in response to a rider's inquiry about a specific case and publish it on the world wide web as if it represented some type of political objective of the AMA. The email in question was an honest assessment by the Government Relations Department of the current status of the law. Whether or not the current law is popular with riders, or whether or not the AMA should work to change the law are different matters. It is unfortunate that such an important issue has come to the foreground in this manner. If someone had asked me to develop a discussion paper on the topic, I would have been happy to comply. If someone had come to me with a proposal for me to take to the AMA Board, I would have helped them in anyway that I could. Instead, I replied to what I thought was a legitimate request for help from a rider, who claimed to be considering spending a tremendous amount of money to fight the state of Iowa, by giving him my honest assessment of the situation - I don't see anything in the federal law that would compel the state to give him a street title for a "closed course competition only" motorcycle. Some of those who have contacted me because of this posting have questioned the AMA work on the off-highway vehicle emissions issue. In doing so, many have displayed a complete ignorance of what we have done over the last two years. This tells me that they are probably not AMA members and that they did not do anything pro-active on the emissions issue such as commenting to the EPA (as we have asked the riding public to do on numerous occasions). The truth is, the AMA advocated more for off-highway motorcycle and all-terrain vehicle riders than anyone else. I will not recreate that history here but much of that content can be found on the "Protecting Your Right to Ride" page of AMADirectLink.com. By baiting me into providing fodder for some web site chat room, someone has cut into a significant portion of my time that would have been better spent on other issues. For example, the comment deadline for the San Rafael (which is popular with dual-sporters) route designation plan is this Friday. Not to mention the time of other staffers who have erroneously received emails based on this posting. My phone number was on my response, if anyone had any concerns or questions they could have done the civil thing and given me a call. Instead, we see the classic weakness of the motorized community -- everyone is looking for an "inside" fight, but not many of us will stand up to the "real" threats. [/QUOTE]
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