Ban on kids bikes, quieren eliminar las motitos para ninos!!!

A deadline is fast approaching on February 10 that could potentially be deadly for the youth motorcycle and ATV market. In less than a week, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, enacted August 14 of last year, will go into effect and ban all products designed for children ages 12 or under which contain lead over specified limits. The Specialty Vehicle Institute of America and Motorcycle Industry Council are attempting to get an exemption for ATV and motorcycle parts.
if you are a true motorcycle enthusiast this matter realy affects you, take action NOW! it takes less than 1 minute
Please visit this link, at the rigth side of the article you will find instructions to send your message to legislators. THANK YOU!

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/5/2382/Motorcycle-Article/Lead-Ban-Stops-Youth-ATV-and-Motorcycle-Sales.aspx

Se aproxima una fecha q podria ser fatal para el mercado de las motos infantiles en menos de una semana.
la ley llamada "Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008" esta dirigida a proteger a los ninos menores de 12 anos de la exposicion al plomo. segun estudios, los metales usados en la construccion de las motos contienen un bajo contenido de plomo, aunque es muy bajo, esto es suficiente para q a algunos politicos sedientos de poder se les ocurra la idea de convertirse en heroes salvando a nuestros ninos del peligro de contaminacion al cual nosotros los exponemos al comprarles su primer motito (creen q los ninos se pasan el dia el el garage masticando el motor o las llantas).
"No mi'jito usted no puede tener una motito porq puede intoxicarse con plomo al tocar la manilla del freno, en solo 7 anos mas puede ir a la guerra, pero por ahora nada de motos"
The Specialty Vehicle Institute of America and Motorcycle Industry Council estan intentando conseguir una excepcion para las motos y partes,
el 10 de febrero entraria en vigencia esta ley q obligaria a los dealers a retirar de la venta todas las motos y atv's para ninos, todas estas unaidades podrian ser destruidas, pueden ustedes imaginar la vida sin CRF50/70/80's, TTR's, PiWi's, KX65's, o las KTM50 ? ademas esto afectaria mucho a los fabricantes especialmente un una epoca de una economia tan detonada, Kawa se retiro de Moto GP, Honda se retiro del WSBK, el USA Redbull rookie's cup se cancelo porq KTM no pudo seguir aportando lo necesario debido a la mala economia, imaginense si a ahora ademas no solo KTM sino todas las marcas reciben este golpe de no poder vender mas motos para ninos y ser obligados a destruir todo el inventorio de estos vehiculos y partes.
por esto es q necesitamos hacerle saber a esos payasos q no necesitamos q nos quiten las motitos para prteger a nuestros ninos.
Si te gustan las motos y no te gustaria ver como desapareces categorias y posibilidades de ver surgir nuevos talentos, por favor visite este link, solo toma un minuto, a la derecha de la pantalla aparecen las instrucciones para mandar un mensaje a los ligisladores, basicamente es tan simple como copiar el texto, despues hacer clic en el link q aparece debajo del texto, pegar e ingresar sus datos personales.
muchas gracias
Walter Ferreyra.

e mail sent

You can send a letter to Congress with this link.

http://www.tomself.com/

thank you Duke, BTW did you get my PM?
spec bikes are finally here.

gotime25 wrote:

e mail sent

thaks Court

flamra75 wrote:

thank you Duke, BTW did you get my PM?
spec bikes are finally here.

Yes, I did get the PM. I haven't had any free time where I could make it down lately. I probably wouldn't be able to make it to the track for another couple of weeks anyway.

Word on the street is that any small bikes have been pulled from showroom floors as of today.

If you haven't followed thru on any of the links, do it now.

Can somebody translate my post into Spanish to reach the rest of the audience on here?

Lo q se comenta en las calles es q today las minimotos han sido retiradas de los dealers hoy.
si usted no ha seguido las instrucciones para en el link de arriba, por favor hagalo ahora.

Nothing smaller than a 100 is listed on Honda's webpage

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/thumpertalk

i signed the petition, who's next ??? I just hope we can do smthg about it...

today called Palmetto Motorsports, trying to buy swing arm bearings for an RM85, the salesman told me "I'm sorry since Feb 10 we can't sell parts for that bike"
This is really starting to make me worried.
please have everyone you can to send thet letter.

EMAIL SENT...

flamra75 wrote:

today called Palmetto Motorsports, trying to buy swing arm bearings for an RM85, the salesman told me "I'm sorry since Feb 10 we can't sell parts for that bike"
This is really starting to make me worried.
please have everyone you can to send thet letter.

I WORK AT A BIKE SHOP AND I'LL GET YOU SOME IF NEEDED, I WOULD HAVE TO ORDER THEM FOR ME AND THEN SHIP THEM TO YOU THOUGH.

It looks like the parts fiche for small bikes is still working on the online bike sites, and I don't see any notice posted that parts for "child" bikes won't be available.

From what I remember on our old 80's we had as kids, the stickers said they weren't for riders under 16 anyway. I wonder if there coupld be a loophole by just sticking "18 and older" stickers on everything.

Also, does this have any impact on the sales of spec class bikes here?

I dropped into Broward Motorsports today, but nobody knew anything about anything. I was curious to see what they'd say about this new lead mandate. They also had a very interesting DR650 with 17" excels, but nobody knew anything about it either

gotime25 wrote:

flamra75 wrote:

today called Palmetto Motorsports, trying to buy swing arm bearings for an RM85, the salesman told me "I'm sorry since Feb 10 we can't sell parts for that bike"
This is really starting to make me worried.
please have everyone you can to send thet letter.

I WORK AT A BIKE SHOP AND I'LL GET YOU SOME IF NEEDED, I WOULD HAVE TO ORDER THEM FOR ME AND THEN SHIP THEM TO YOU THOUGH.

thank you Courtney, I ordered some aftermarket ones today, can you order me an oem KTM part?

flamra75 wrote:

thank you Courtney, I ordered some aftermarket ones today, can you order me an oem KTM part?

No can do on the KTM stuff, i can only get parts for the big 4, BTW, wasn't that you who PM'd me about those 150R hubs?? If you still want/need them i can bring them to Starke, just let me know before mid-week, send me a PM through the SMJ forum, for some reason my e mail doesn't get notified about PM's from the FLAMRA site.

flamra75 wrote:

gotime25 wrote:

flamra75 wrote:

today called Palmetto Motorsports, trying to buy swing arm bearings for an RM85, the salesman told me "I'm sorry since Feb 10 we can't sell parts for that bike"
This is really starting to make me worried.
please have everyone you can to send thet letter.

I WORK AT A BIKE SHOP AND I'LL GET YOU SOME IF NEEDED, I WOULD HAVE TO ORDER THEM FOR ME AND THEN SHIP THEM TO YOU THOUGH.

thank you Courtney, I ordered some aftermarket ones today, can you order me an oem KTM part?

Hannah should be able to get you anything for a KTM

that's right, I'll call her.

The end may be in sight for the "Lead Ban"

http://www.cpsc.gov/pr/nord040309exclusions.pdf

Somebody got the bright idea that kids will still want to ride, and will most likely end up on bikes that are too big for them if youth models aren't available.

2wheelDuke wrote:

The end may be in sight for the "Lead Ban"

http://www.cpsc.gov/pr/nord040309exclusions.pdf

Somebody got the bright idea that kids will still want to ride, and will most likely end up on bikes that are too big for them if youth models aren't available.

shuoldn't they have think about this before they pass that law?