I live in Reno, NV. I am buying a polaris predator 90 for my daughter. I know in NV you can ride a 2 or 4 stroke with no problem. But, I asked a salesmen yesterday about riding in CA with a 2 stroke and he said that I could as long as I pay for a $20 green sticker. The predator has a spark arrestor.. I also heard you can only ride in certain places ant times of the year in CA. Please help, very confused. Can a person with a 2 stroke with a green sticker ride in CA.?

 

You will need a non-resident permit only if your vehicle is NOT registered in your home state.........

http://ohv.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=1140

Absolutely nobody enforces the red sticker thing, and in a lot of rural counties it doesn't apply anyway. I would just not worry about it, and play dumb if you ever got caught. By the way, does your VIN have a 3 or C as the 8th number???

 

The Non-Res permit allows you to ride year round, no matter if your vehicle is compliant with CARB emissions standards for OHVs. I believe that NV doesn't have an OHV registration program. The permit is like $20/yr. (Regular OHV registration in CA is $25/ 2 yr.)

And many places do strictly enforce Green/Red stickers. ALL of the SVRAs do, well, except maybe Pismo. The forrest above me (Sierra National Forest) is also very strict on it as well.

The color of the sticker is based on it's compliance as certified by it's manufacturer to CARB emissions standards for OHVs for it's engine class. It doesn't matter if it's a 2 or a 4 stroke. Some 4 strokes are not compliant as well (some YZ4XX MCs). Any production 2-stroke ATV won't be compliant as well. And these rules only apply to model year 2003 and newer. Model year 2002 and older are all green stickers.

As recon noted, the key is the VIN having a C or a 3 as the 8th digit of the VIN. That's a designation of non-compliance. As you are a resident of NV, it doesn't really matter. Just get the non-resident permit and have at it.

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Thank you for the input. I will going down to polaris this friday and getting my daughter the pred 90, and I know it is a 2 stroke and in a few months from now, I would like to get the outlaw or LTD (or is it the LE?). One of the two...And the 500 is 4 stroke and we live only minutes from CA., so I didn't want any conflict with the fact that my daughters a 2 and not a 4 like the one I am looking at.