NEWEST UPDATE

NH legislative committee rejects motorcycle bills

Wednesday, February 3, 2010
NORTH HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — A bill requiring New Hampshire motorcyclists to wear helmets has died in a legislative committee.

The Portsmouth Herald reported on its Web site Tuesday that the bill, and another requiring motorcycles made after 1982 to have noise "emission systems labels," were dismissed in the House Transportation Committee after the panel deemed them "too inexpedient to legislate."

The House held a hearing on the legislation last week.

Both measures were proposed by state Rep. Judith Day of North Hampton. She tells the newspaper she's undecided whether she will seek re-election, but will propose the bills again if she returns to the Legislature.

Day says she also supports legislation allowing communities to craft their own motorcycle noise ordinances. 

(A message from the NHMRO)

Now that the hearings for both bills are
behind us, NHMRO's would like to
remind you that there are a few things
left to do.

The Transportation Committee is
expected to consider the bills
disposition in executive session within
the couple of weeks and will either
render an "out to pass" or an
"inexpedient to legislate" (ITL) before             <--------- Dismissed in Committee as ITL
the bill goes to the full House for a vote.  <--------- Still goes to full house for vote     

It is important that you now contact                <---------- Still need to contact your local Rep    
your representatives (and not
necessarily the Transportation
Committee), to express you position on
these bills.

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 UPDATE

Transportation Committee Hearings were held at the State House, Hall of Representatives in Concord on January 28th 2010.

The schedule was as follows:

HB1162 Motorcycle Helmets is at 9:30am

HB1261 Motorcycle Noise Emission Controls is at 10:30am

The actual times ran longer and the hearings concluded around 1:00pm in the afternoon. After hearing rep. Judith Day from Rockingham County (sponsoring both bills), and other sponsors of the bills, testimony was given by the NHMRO, the AMA, several other motorcycle groups and also people in attendance. There had to be between 200 and 300 bikers in attendance at the hearings. Definitely a large group in opposition to both bills. Several members of the NH VTX Riders were in attendance as well. As more information becomes available, it will get posted here. Anyone wanting to see video of the hearings CLICK HERE.  The original links remain below and there is still time to contact your local rep to let them know you are in opposition to these bills.

NH MC Legislative Issues #1 - Overview

NH HB1162 - Helmet Legislation

HB1261 - Noise/Emmission Contols

NH Rep Contact Info

What we are is a group of riders here in New Hampshire and New England that enjoy riding the Honda VTX. Most of us started out as members of the VTX Owners Association message board (VTXOA.com) and were limited to talking about our love of this great bike with people that shared our love. The group is diverse and spread out all over New Hampshire. Most of us had never met except through the message board. On June 1st of 2008 that all changed. Our first group ride was a great success and we all finally got to meet each other in person and do what we love.....RIDE. A great turnout of 25 VTX's on our debut group ride yielded a lot of laughs and some great new friendships.

The group has since gotten larger with new friends coming from Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and Conneticut. Our anniversary ride of our first group ride this year had a 40 bike turnout. We are not limited by the type of bike we ride. All that love to ride are welcome to join us. Members of the group bring friends along for rides all the time. We welcome anyone who loves to ride to come along.

That being said......Welcome to NH VTX Riders Dot Com. Hopefully you will be informed of local happenings, be it our next ride, a tech day, or one of our famous "Meetings of the Mindless" get togethers where we plan our next seasons rides and have a few laughs. Join us for the fun.

 NHMRO Gives the NH VTX Riders a Certificate of Appreciation

New Hampshire Motorcyclist Rights Organization gives the NH VTX Riders a Certificate of Appreciation for becoming a sponsor of the Toys for Tots Run.

SPGrenier, TBones and Badone went to the NHMRO meeting in Hooksett on Sunday November 8th 2009 and were presented a certificate of Appreciation for our group becoming a sponsor at this past year's Toys for Tots Run. The Certificate is shown below. I printed copies and will bring them to our upcomming Meeting of the Mindless in December. If anyone would like to print one right away, they can click on the image below, open up the full size image and print it from there. Congratulations to all in the group for once again coming through and doing it with finesse.

I have recently added an Events Calendar to the site. It is very basic and really has not been populated since we are toward the end of this years riding season. Hopefully we will conduct a couple of our "Meetings of the Mindless" again this winter to get ideas for next years riding season. On our old calendar people were putting birthdays on the calendar. If people have an interest in having their birthdays on a calendar, I can set up another calendar. This calendar component is only manageable by the admin and items cannot be added by users. It integrates with Google Calendars and if you have a Google account you can add events from the calendar here to your own calendar. This calendar is a running experiment and may change in the future if I can find one that works better and is FREE. Seems there are a lot of companies trying to get rich off of simple components. So for now, there is a Calendar for Events and a Calendar for Birthdays. Anyone wanting a birthday or event added to the respective calendars should e-mail me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or PM me, CaptDanbo, on the VTXOA board.

I have also added a weather link in the top menu bar and in the Main Menu. It will post 7 day forecasts for 3 locations covering New Hampshire. Locations are Manchester for southern NH, Laconia for the lakes region and Berlin for the north country. I will also include other cities as necessary depending on where our next group ride is. I added Burlington Vermont to the list since we are planning a Foliage ride on the 3rd and 4th of October.

NH-VTX.COM closing it's doors 

For those who may not have noticed, the original NH VTX web site that was run by Btalon (Paul) at www.nh-vtx.com is no longer in operation. Because of other commitments and time constraints, he has decided to stop operation of the web site, gallery and mass e-mail. Paul worked very hard on that site and it was very informative with the goings on of the group as well as having a backup bulletin board for when the VTXOA would go down. The site was well run as was the gallery and it will surely be missed. Everyone knew that when something was going on, there was a mass e-mail sent out to everyone. Paul has set up a forwarding link at the old location that will for the time being re-route people to this site. 

What's Next

Things will slowly become consolidated with this site. Anyone that was registered with the NH-VTX site & gallery is welcome to register on this site and gallery. Pictures from Paul's gallery have been given to me to add to this gallery. Plans will be to start uploading them with the newest ones first, followed by the older pictures. I started on that work this morning (Jan 29, 2010). I hope to take over the mass e-mail project as well and hope that I can do as well a job as Paul did with it. A lot of time and energy go into site developement as well as maintenance to keep it running at it's peak. So, I know how difficult it can be to manage a web site, job and family life. As he does with everything he takes on, Paul put 100% into his web site. Anyone with questions feel free to send them to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and I will do my best to answer them. For all the necommers.......enjoy the site.