We check only car & truck emissions here, bikes are not tested. Statistically bikes represent less than 1% of total emissions.

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ask around, I don't believe all those straight-piped Harleys  I saw running around big"D" were swapping pipes for the annual inspection.
I bet you are good to go.

Dallas/Ft. Worth and Houston/Galveston have much more restrictive testing than anywhere else in the state, followed by El Paso.  They charge an extra $39.50 on top of the normal inspection fees for the privilege too.  However, found what I was looking for under the Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance section of the Texas Administrative Code (gotta love the web) and it goes like this...

"Applicability. The requirements of this section and those contained in the revised Texas Inspection and Maintenance (I/M) State Implementation Plan (SIP) shall be applied to all gasoline-powered motor vehicles 2 - 24 years old and subject to an annual emissions inspection, beginning with the first safety inspection. Currently, military tactical vehicles, motorcycles, diesel-powered vehicles, dual-fueled vehicles which cannot operate using gasoline, and antique vehicles registered with the Texas Department of Transportation are excluded from the program."

Looks like I don't need to worry.

Most places that I've heard of don't check bikes yet.  They do cars here in NC, but so far we are safe.  So I live for the moment.

Just wait to see what may happen after 2006 when the new EPA restrictions fall into place.  Since the stock Savage is about as lean as it can get with an air cooled/ carb. engine, I expect a radical change to the Savage.  Might be farting through a catalytic converter too.

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What's good for the goose...

I think H-D, the same company that managed to get tariffs leveled against the imports 20 years ago, may have something to say about it. Besides, they already have EFI. Until the EPA can say definitively that bikes actually make ANY difference w/ regard to U.S. emissions controls vs. the amount of emissions generated by all cars and trucks, then it will not be a problem except for the Peoples Rep. of Kalifornia who like to impose that sort of crap just to be anal. The Feds know most bikes (I didn't say all bikes) spend most of their lives in the garage creating no emissions as opposed to your average commuter car or semi. They could mandate only fuel cells on ALL bikes and ATVs and it wouldn’t make a measurable difference. Even if they did pass some such crap they would be looking at all the new 1000 to 2000 cc bikes 1st. It would be easy to say those BIG heavy liter+ bikes are doing 90% of the damage and hang converters on the 1000cc+ bikes, saving the smaller bikes and our Savages/40's.
Speaking of EFI, if they gave tax credits for new variable fuel trucks like my Sonoma and the Hybrid cars, why not all EFI bikes getting over say 60 MPG?
I think we should give a tax credit to bike riders for both the purchase any of those new bikes and a credit on fuel put into them.

For those that haven't heard about the new EPA regs, the entire 50 states will be adopting the same "Kalifornia" standards over a period of time.  The standards for 2004 in CA will be everyone's in 2006, and then there will be another set of standards that take place 2-4 years later.

This happened back in March, I believe.  Been well discussed in the AMA etc.

Bottom line: we will be breathing cleaner air whether we want to or not, so keep the old pipe.

I am somewhat curious though.  It seems to me that the bike is very lean when stock.  If I add a K&N air filter with no other changes, it should be leaner still, although it'll probably fart on every other stroke.  If I rejet only to a 150-155, it may not make that much difference to the emissions.  In any case, that's what I intend to try... but I'll save my stock parts.  My guess is that there will be a new market for slip-on mufflers with built-in catalytic converters.