As of Tuesday, February 10th, 2009, the small powersports industry has all but been shut down. As many of you are aware, on the Feb 9, 2009 Congress passed the lead toy act that claimed a suprise victim: kids off road motorcycles!!! The new federal law aimed at protecting children from lead in toys has also forced a nationwide halt in sales of off-road motorcycles and recreational vehicles built for young riders, halting a multimillion-dollar industry that was thriving despite the recession.

Please visit Missouri State Representative Tom Self's webpage to submit your support for his attempts to get the youth motorcycle industry excluded from this effort and back on track:

http://www.tomself.com/

Well, let us ask a question: who is going to protect those kids from mental distortion of computer games and rapid gain of pear- looking body shape? Or from assaults in places such as soccer fields, baseball parks, city streets, churches, mall parking lots etc? From prescribed by doctors drugs that are million times worse than good old Mary Jane?
I am just so glad I am old enough that I won't have to deal as a growing kid with this society totally f@$Ked up by law makers and rating commissions and just getting worse every day. I feel really sorry and very sad for the younger generation- those who's rights are being infringed and removed daily. Chain linked, barbwired, metal detectors and CCTV surrounded, locked up between jail- like schools, houses and parents cars- poor kids. Hell, I would hate that life! I guess I am grateful that I grew up riding California desert East of San Diego!

Not to mention the general anti-motorcycle mentality of our average fellow americans- that's whole new thread.

OMG OMG I am so pissed I can not even buy my kid a helmet what about parts?? OHHHHHH.
I have written my congressman the federal trade commission and as my wife says this rulling is so lame.
You would think that with all the money we spend on off road equipment in this country we as the offroad community would have some pull.
My kids do not do drugs, don't drink, don't smoke or spray graffiti all over the place.
should they sit in their rooms and play videio games all day not on your life.

We ride we get hurt we heal and we ride somemore. Our family memories are built on respect and camp fires hide and go seek in the desertwith other kids and long rides, and hours uppon hours of track time.
Lets face it the only time my kids even listen to me is when it is about racing or understanding their surrondings. How many non off road kids at 6 can get you home on a 10 mile ride.
This is what we love why is everything being taken away from us.

Im beginning to tyhink Democracy is a myth, and maybe there is a reason democracy never survives for centuries. In the end, America is becoming more and more like the English totalitarian Monarchy we once left behind during the American revolution.

azmotobrat said: