small powersports industry has all but been shut down
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Ya i pulled this off another forum i am a member on. I think this is bullshit for people who might already have a smaller bike because what are you suppose to do if you crash it? Also that website gives a little smaller description that describes the effects a little more.
On February 10, 2009, a new law called the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act went into effect. This law was created by Congress last August as a knee-jerk reaction to hazardous toys being imported from China (remember the Fisher-Price toy recalls). It bans all products sold for use by children which contain above certain levels of lead and phthalates. In the act, children is defined as anyone 12 or under, and the law is very broad in that it exempts no products from its purview.
How does this become an issue of importance to motorcycle riders?
All minibikes and pitbikes fall under this act, as well as ATV's sold for youths. 85cc or smaller, gone. I can't get parts, I can't even get stickers. As of today, all the major motorcycle and ATV manufacturers have instructed their dealers to remove all bikes and ATV's used by children from inventory and to cease advertising, marketing, selling, possibly servicing these products. The lead contained in these bikes is not in the paint; it's in the metal used for certain parts in the engines and electrical parts. Most dealers have also been instructed to stop selling parts and accessories for the bikes as well.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission, CPSC, which is the commission charged with enforcing this act has been asked by the motorcycle industry to grant a waiver to prevent the end of the motorcycle industry, but they are dragging their feet. As a result, minibikes and pitbikes became illegal today.
What can you do about this?
We are sending this email to ask you to band together as the motorcycle community to tell the beureaucrats in Washington, DC that they need to act and act now to stop this from hurting the motorcycle industry any more.
116th District Missouri Representative Tom Self, father of two kids who race bikes, has organized a campaign to contact our legislators and the CPSC to demand that they act immediately to grant the waiver to the motorcycle industry. This campaign relies upon everyone who is involved in any way with motorcycles and racing to get involved and send a message. That's not just one representative of the family, but Mom, Dad, sister, brother...everyone! To make this easy, Representative Self has created a website with a form which can be used to generate letters to all the involved officials. Every member of your family who is a citizen of the US must be encouraged to send in this letter. Contact everyone you know who is involved in racing and get them to send a message. It is important that Washington DC be totally swamped with emails and phone calls about this, and it must happen right now!
The website is www.tomself.com and it's easy to do.
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I heard about this, and can't really figure out who in their RIGHT mind would ban a bike from being sold because it CONTAINS lead in something internal. I mean have we really gone that far?
This country is starting to be FTL. Might as well move to Cuba, atleast they will let you "kill" yourself with lead in your bike.
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Kiss lead pencils goodbye. I know there made out of carbon but the term "Lead Pencil" implies there MIGHT be lead in them, and that alone is good enough for the goverment.
I suppose the price on said bikes is going to sky rocket for people who want to buy or sell them privately.
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Ya i was looking into this online and viewing some things. Well some manufactures like Suzuki are trying to make brakes and engine parts without lead and shit like that but supposedly that will double the price of the bike to get everything down to the specs that the congress want. And if it doesn't go threw Glen Hansen, Communications Director for American Suzuki was saying in magazines that this will probably be a big impact on there business and probably run a lot of smaller business or off brand business out of business. Which i think is true because it is going to ruin the motocross sport and its going to hurt people that figure ok i will just get my 10 year old kid a 2 stroke 125
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because its illegal now to buy mini or pit bikes... if you look on yamaha.com motors they have already pulled of the ttr 50 and the pw90 and so are other websites. i have went to other websites and i can't even get parts or even sticker kits for my 85 as of the 10th. Its all been pulled.
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its any bike marketed for under 12.... its not just a cc limit... other wise they wouldnt pull the 110's
"In the act, children is defined as anyone 12 or under, and the law is very broad in that it exempts no products from its purview."
Also the cc limit refers to 2 strokes... which equals aprox 150cc 4 stroke...
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Ya harwood is right they can't promote to younger kids under the age of 13....i called Umotors today because i was going to be pissed if i couldn't buy parts for my yz 85. and they said they can still sell the parts they just can't sell the bike itself is what they told me so i guess am not to worried lol as i already have the bike. But it is still a shitty deal for people who want to get there kids into motosports at a young age.
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