Re: OMG! The instanity must stop!
Stupid. It's not like the kids are eating their motorcycle parts...Letter sent.
Stupid. It's not like the kids are eating their motorcycle parts...Letter sent.
OMG! The insanity must stop!
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Re: OMG! The instanity must stop!
Some more information besides a call to stop the inSTANity might get more people to write their congress critters...
Joe Hawkins walked into his local dealership in Washington State, strolled up to the parts counter and told the salesman that he wanted to buy a throttle tube for this Kawasaki KLR650. He was told that couldn't be done.
Turns out the throttle tube on a KLR650 is the same as the throttle tube for a KX65. Huh?
It all comes back to the recent legislation that imposes strict lead content guidelines on children's toys. Kid's toys, lead content... how does that relate to Hawkins and his throttle tube?
Youth off-highway vehicles are children's toys, the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) reasons. Which means they fall under the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) and, according to section 101(a) of that enacted legislation, all youth products containing lead must have less than 600 parts per million (ppm) by weight. And the CPSC has interpreted the law to apply to various components of youth OHVs - including the engine, brakes, suspension, battery and other mechanical parts. Even though the lead levels in these parts are small, they are still above the minimum threshold.
And therein lies the problem. Effectively, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 has banned the sale of kid's motorcycles and ATVs - and it all went into effect yesterday, February 10. And the ban also includes parts, thereby affecting motorcyclists like Hawkins and the entire motorcycle industry.
Leave it to government to wipe out jobs in a tough economic period... follow those links and make your voice heard!
Some more information besides a call to stop the inSTANity might get more people to write their congress critters...
Joe Hawkins walked into his local dealership in Washington State, strolled up to the parts counter and told the salesman that he wanted to buy a throttle tube for this Kawasaki KLR650. He was told that couldn't be done.
Turns out the throttle tube on a KLR650 is the same as the throttle tube for a KX65. Huh?
It all comes back to the recent legislation that imposes strict lead content guidelines on children's toys. Kid's toys, lead content... how does that relate to Hawkins and his throttle tube?
Youth off-highway vehicles are children's toys, the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) reasons. Which means they fall under the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) and, according to section 101(a) of that enacted legislation, all youth products containing lead must have less than 600 parts per million (ppm) by weight. And the CPSC has interpreted the law to apply to various components of youth OHVs - including the engine, brakes, suspension, battery and other mechanical parts. Even though the lead levels in these parts are small, they are still above the minimum threshold.
And therein lies the problem. Effectively, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 has banned the sale of kid's motorcycles and ATVs - and it all went into effect yesterday, February 10. And the ban also includes parts, thereby affecting motorcyclists like Hawkins and the entire motorcycle industry.
Re: OMG! The instanity must stop!
OMG BATTERY'S HAVE LEAD????? we should ban them... or at least have a proper recycling program in place..... Why does it seem wrong that so many people have to be employed just to defend,administrate, and propose laws such as this. /end rant
OMG BATTERY'S HAVE LEAD????? we should ban them... or at least have a proper recycling program in place.....
Why does it seem wrong that so many people have to be employed just to defend,administrate, and propose laws such as this. /end rant
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