Dude! Sweet!
03-23-2009, 09:51 PM
http://www.mic.org/stoptheban.cfm
Petition and info to lift the ban on kids motorcycles and ATVS. If I hadn't learned to ride when I was a kid (got my first bike when I was 7), there is no question that I still would have bought my GSXR when I was 19, and no questions that I would have stuffed myself under a car a week later...
Here's the details on this... Basically everything's been pulled off the shelves. Dealers have these bikes sitting in storerooms. They've had to eat the inventory (on top of kids not having bikes).
The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) was signed into law on Aug. 14, 2008. The law increased the budget of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and, among other items, imposed new documentation requirements, new testing requirements and established new permissible levels of several substances, lead among them, for consumer products intended for children 12 and under.
Most of the components making up youth powersports products are in compliance with the new law. But some parts unavoidably contain small quantities of lead in excess of the CPSIA limits, such as the valve stems on the tires, aluminum in some brake components, and the terminals on the batteries. Lead in these components is necessary, either because small amounts of lead are needed for safety (such as machining the deep grooves on tire valves, which is needed to assure tire air retention) or functionality (such as the lead in battery terminals, which is needed to conduct electricity).
For weeks, the MIC and SVIA urged the CPSC to grant (and for members of Congress to support) petitions for temporary exclusions so that youth models could continue to be sold. The powersports industry demonstrated in the petitions, through the scientific analysis required by the CPSIA, that the lead-containing parts of youth ATVs and motorcycles pose no risk of increasing the lead levels in children aged 12 and younger.
The powersports industry was unable to seek exclusions until the CPSC issued proposed rules in January 2009.
Petition and info to lift the ban on kids motorcycles and ATVS. If I hadn't learned to ride when I was a kid (got my first bike when I was 7), there is no question that I still would have bought my GSXR when I was 19, and no questions that I would have stuffed myself under a car a week later...
Here's the details on this... Basically everything's been pulled off the shelves. Dealers have these bikes sitting in storerooms. They've had to eat the inventory (on top of kids not having bikes).
The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) was signed into law on Aug. 14, 2008. The law increased the budget of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and, among other items, imposed new documentation requirements, new testing requirements and established new permissible levels of several substances, lead among them, for consumer products intended for children 12 and under.
Most of the components making up youth powersports products are in compliance with the new law. But some parts unavoidably contain small quantities of lead in excess of the CPSIA limits, such as the valve stems on the tires, aluminum in some brake components, and the terminals on the batteries. Lead in these components is necessary, either because small amounts of lead are needed for safety (such as machining the deep grooves on tire valves, which is needed to assure tire air retention) or functionality (such as the lead in battery terminals, which is needed to conduct electricity).
For weeks, the MIC and SVIA urged the CPSC to grant (and for members of Congress to support) petitions for temporary exclusions so that youth models could continue to be sold. The powersports industry demonstrated in the petitions, through the scientific analysis required by the CPSIA, that the lead-containing parts of youth ATVs and motorcycles pose no risk of increasing the lead levels in children aged 12 and younger.
The powersports industry was unable to seek exclusions until the CPSC issued proposed rules in January 2009.