Re: Improving Off-road Compliance

I would not be in favor of anything that requires current owners of OHV's to spend sums of money to convert bodywork or add structures to vehicles in order to display billboard-sized license plates. I would not be opposed to DMV providing larger green stickers for side or front number plates on vehicles that are built with them. There are some inherent problems, however. One is that racers would have to cover their green stickers with race numbers, and they are too expensive to require them to switch plates back and forth. That would require several hundred dollars in some cases. Additionally, number plates can be damaged in a crash, and the numbers obscured. One of the reasons DMV has required green sticker locations where they do is so they don't have to spend millions printing and providing new green stickers every time there's one damaged. They are now required to be on permanent chassis structures for a reason. Currently, if you see a District 37 number on a number plate of a bike that is riding illegal trails, the number can most assuredly be traced back to one individual. They are indeed traceable. But there are only 1900 members of District 37. Most trail riders are NOT members of District 37 or AMA by a long shot.