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[gman255 TT Gold Member]

As of February 10 2009 the CPSC Band the sale of new and used motor cycles and ATV's marketed for kid under 12. We will not be able to buy new/used machines and parts for our bikes.


Posted In the Pitbike forum By SourseMx

This is an email we sent to all our customers about the CPSIA. A Missouri state representative has created an easy way for everyone to send a letter to there senators, representative, and the CPSC by filling out just one form and clicking one button.

On February 10, 2009, today, 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 imprtance to SourceMX Graphics?

All minibikes and pitbikes fall under this act, as well as ATV's sold for youths. 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.

That's www.tomself.com

www.tomself.com

Do it now!

Thanks

Steve
SourceMX Graphics
573-302-1530

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[gman255 TT Gold Member]

THIS IS FOR REAL!

Today may have been the last day to buy parts and new bikes.

Total BS!

Respond NOW!

[bikesnwheelers TT Silver Member]

This really sucks. Everybody should sign this: http://www.petitions...ons/thumpertalk

[jesusgatos TT Silver Member]

Holy Sheat! Fer Real? Naw...

[07cbr600rr TT Bronze Member]

REAL! I have gotten several emails from my local Honda dealership regarding this. It's RETARDED!

[4strokeridertt TT Titanium Member]

Would not all the autos and trucks in this country fall under the same guidelines. If an auto maker had a commercial with kids in it that would be proof that they are intended for USE BY CHILDREN.
Why do minivans and Pruis's fall under a different catagory, kids spend far more time in them.
What about kids using computers. Same thing.

[kc_450_X TT Titanium Member]

tried to sign it but it says my email has already signed it:thinking:

[johnk408 TT Titanium Member]

Will be interesting to see what is said this weekend at the annual trade show in Indy.  There are normally hundreds of Chinese vendors trying to sell minis there.  I just don't understand our government.  We can't buy dirt bikes but we can buy guns (which if the old saying "eat lead" is true the bullets are made of lead as well).

[bikesnwheelers TT Silver Member]

I wonder how small of bikes this effects and if it will affect the CRF80/100's. I hope parts will still be available if it does effect them.

[gman255 TT Gold Member]

Stop by one of our local dealers today. The have removed 5 bikes and 2 quads from the show room floor.

Suzuki's 125cc and down bikes and quads. Including DRZ's and the RM 85
Honda's 80cc and down CRF's

Dealers are unable to sell part for these machines, as well.
It will be interesting how this can be resolved and how this will effect are already poor economy.

[Calmx TT Bronze Member]

What size of bikes are we talkin about? all minis?? 85's too?

[bikesnwheelers TT Silver Member]

That sucks it includes the 85 and CRF80, but it all really sucks in general.

[R_Little TT Titanium Member]

johnk408 said:

Will be interesting to see what is said this weekend at the annual trade show in Indy.  There are normally hundreds of Chinese vendors trying to sell minis there.  I just don't understand our government.  We can't buy dirt bikes but we can buy guns (which if the old saying "eat lead" is true the bullets are made of lead as well).

Shuddup....they'll take the guns away too.

They already have where I live.

Consider yourself lucky!

[xr75kid TT Bronze Member]

Unbelievable. The big 4 have notes on their websites saying "temporarily not available for sale". Is this part of the "CHANGE" we have been promised ?

[pugh433 TT Member]

I saw a e-mail to a local honda dealership from the honda factory. The bikes that were listed from honda were the trx 90, crf 50, crf 70 and the crf 80. I think the cr 85 and crf 100 have an older age range

[bikesnwheelers TT Silver Member]

I noticed that Honda has removed the CRF50F, CRF70F, and the CRF80F from their website all together.

[kc_450_X TT Titanium Member]

Honda Canada still has the minis on their website.

[oconnor TT Bronze Member]

xr75kid said:

Is this part of the "CHANGE" we have been promised ?

"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)."

Why inject your politics into a motorcycle thread?

[9teen7d2 TT Silver Member]

Why inject your politics into a motorcycle thread?[/QUOTE]

uhhhh! isnt that why this thread was started.... because of moran politicians!

[4runnerman88 TT Bronze Member]

Moron is a polite word for it, but unfortunately people elect indiviuals that have no idea what they are talking about, then cram it down the throte of those of us who do and what's worse is nobdy saw it coming cause no one ever looks at legislation before they the politcians get to vote on it