help stop National BAN on kid's motorcycles

[midnite836g]

The Kids Just Want to Ride Act is set to be introduced next week

by Representative Denny Rehberg (MT) in the

U.S. House of Representatives.The American Motorcyclist

Association (AMA) strongly supports the Kids Just Want

to Ride Act and is urging everyone to call their Representative

tobecome an original cosponsor.

The Act is a legislative exemption for youth-model motorcycles and

ATVs from the lead provisions in the Consumer Product Safety

Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA), known as the Lead Law.

The CPSIA effectively banned the sale of small displacement recreational

vehicles due to overly restrictive lead content standards.

Rehberg recently circulated a "Dear Colleague" encouraging other

representatives to become original cosponsors. The AMA needs

you and everyone you know that is concerned with the future of youth

riding to call your Representative and ask them to cosponsor the Kids

Just Want to Ride Act.

To call your Representative, click on "Take Action" to insert your

zip code in the "Call Action" box to get your Representative's phone

number. Or, you can call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-225-3121

and ask for your Representative by name.

Call your Representative now and let them know you would like to

see them cosponsor the Kids Just Want to Ride Act.

http://www.americanmotorcyclist.com/rights/issueslegislation

[NinjaNick]

I think this was posted on here a few months ago.

[jporter12]

I think this was posted on here a few months ago.

Says the repost king...

I hadn't seen it, before now. If they ban kid's motorcycles, they had better mandate bubble-wrap suits for them at the same time! I see too many people being WAY too over-protective. Almost to the point of it being a sickness.

[rslocum]

I think I saw my 6 year old neighbor chewing on his 90cc ATV fender instead of riding it. They should ban for lead:).

[jbot]

that shit tastes good after romping through candy mountain

[shittygsxr]

I have never heard of kids motorcycles, are they anything like the little bikes that adults buy and ride around on when they are drunk?

[John]

yup.

[jporter12]

I have never heard of kids motorcycles, are they anything like the little bikes that adults buy and ride around on when they are drunk?

Those, or Ninja 250's.

[Jst2fst]

I have never heard of kids motorcycles, are they anything like the little bikes that adults buy and ride around on when they are drunk?

pocket rockets perhaps....

[jagr]

Kids bikes dont need batteries. Mine never did.

Kickstarting for an hour builds character!

[Jst2fst]

Kids bikes dont need batteries. Mine never did.

Kickstarting for an hour builds character!

And leg muscles

[alienpi]

that shit tastes good after romping through candy mountain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY

[Disclaimer]

It’s legal to sell dirt bikes to kids again

http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2011/08/it%E2%80%99s-legal-to-sell-dirt-bikes-to-kids-again/

On Friday, President Obama signed an amendment to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 into law, categorically excluding motorcycles and ATVs from the list of lead-containing, child-targeted products banned from sale. We broke the story that CPSIA would ban children’s bikes back in January, 2009, a move that’s estimated to have cost the industry up to $1 billion a year in lost sales. This news should mark a financial uptick for dealers and OEMs still struggling to move product post cheap credit. But, it could be a short lived lifeline. CPSIA was railroaded through congress back at the end of 2008 in a knee jerk reaction to all sorts of news stories about childrens toys from China containing unhealthy amounts of lead. As it was written, any product intended for use by people 12 years old or younger couldn’t contain even trace amounts of lead. This immediately became a problem for dirt bikes and ATVs, which use lead in batteries and in metal alloys used throughout their construction. Never mind that kids would probably have a hard time ingesting a frame or battery, the law was all-encompassing in its scope.

Since that time there’s been a stay of enforcement granted by the federal government, but many OEMs and dealers held back on sales, as states could still selectively choose to enforce the law. This amendment permanently resolves that issue.

Dealer News reports that many dealers and manufacturers are planning special promotions to celebrate the end of the ban, hopefully informing customers of the ruling and ending years of consumer confusion.

But, even while bikes are now permanently excluded from the silly lead law, another problem is potentially arising. CPSIA also dictates that products intended for 12s and under must pass federal certification testing by November 27 of this year. Many companies are reporting a shortage of accredited labs capable of performing that testing, so some bikes and ATVs may again need be withdrawn from sale later this year. This further confusion and mandated testing is indicative of the increasingly difficult legislative waters the motorcycle industry must now navigate and imposes a further obstacle on the importation and sale of niche products. For consumers, each additional hurdle a new product must clear increases cost and reduces choice in the market place. Still, at least its again legal to put kids on brand new motorcycles.

Also sorta in this thread: http://www.ohioriders.net/showthread.php?t=76616

But Obama signed it, so there's gotta be something bad about it.