AMA riders....opinions please.....?

Today, I just read about the "The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008" ...which I guess went into affect the 10th of this month.....this piece of legislation was designed to put strict limits on the amount of lead children under 12 was allowed to come into contact.....it was for toys......but, it seems that all motorcycles designed for kids 12 and under ..such as 50's ,65's,70's,and 85's (both trail and two stroke bikes)..contain over the lead limits...which basically means these bikes and parts, as they are now, cannot be sold in the US as of a few days ago (check any bikes website and see for yourself what bikes are available now for sale...you will not find under a 100 four stroke ...or a 105 two stroke )

So my question to you is what will this do to world of motorcycle racing .....if a child can't ride a bike until they are 12 and over ......

http://www.amadirectlink.com/news/story.asp?id=613

2009-02-20T14:28:35Z

I just want to say thank you to everyone for their opinions....

..Wiggysan, has the right of it...this is going to end up hurting the whole industry on a global scale.. ...... and like Proc suggested the companies will probably be forced to make changes ....but the time and cost involved ...is really going to have a negative impact on amateur racing in the US ..If these kids are not allowed to ride until the changes are made.... this could set the sport back for many years to come...like Auburn suggested, maybe they will make these bikes exempt or at least give some kind of grace period for these companies to make the changes needed and allow these kids to continue riding during this time.......

2009-02-20T14:29:23Z

gabatron .....my first thought were similar to yours...I had a mental image of a cobra 50 rider jumping on a ktm105
: ( ....but, this is all about children under a certain age coming into contact with this lead content.... the bigger bikes still have the lead content so the parent would end up getting hauled off for child endangerment ..not over the bike being to big..but the lead content in it...the problem with laws once they are enacted...getting them off the book is awful..we still have laws from the 1800's still on the book.. they just aren't enforced.....

my kids race 250's ...but, I just can't imagine going to the tracks and not seeing the mini's...its true, the time at the track would be shortened...but, there is just something infinitely sad about this prospect ......

Wiggysan2009-02-18T01:59:01Z

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Auburn asked this same type of question the other day and it is really bad news for the racing world.

Can you imagine the world of racing if this law came in decades ago.

No Roberts. No Haydens. No Bostrom's. No Spies to name just a few.

The impact this " law " will have have on independent dealers and parts retailers is massive, but the impact for the racing world in 8 - 10 years time is going to be global.

The men in suits have not thought about this at all.

They will soon change to the law when they ( the US ) have no riders in ANY championships all over the world and models of bikes sales are down 300 %. As if the world's money problems are not bad enough already.

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auburn2009-02-17T23:55:45Z

Am not an American but the problems with this act have been causing concern in other countries including mine. I believe that your country will need to address the situation and possibly make bike products exempt from this ruling. There was some talk that this was on the table prior to the act being put in place. The outcome as you say has been the removal of many bikes and parts from sale with recall on them in place as well.

If they don't address the problem the sport is going to be in trouble and the age of becoming a top rider will blow out with the kids not being able to throw there leg over a bike till 12. If the rule stays in place the governing bodies won't legally be allowed to run sections for under 12's.

Hopefully common sense will prevail and the sport will have a place for the kids.

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gabatron2009-02-17T23:09:02Z

I heard about this, and pretty much laughed, I ride motocycles, and have a pw80 as a pit bike, this law is a joke, what kid is going to get to the lead in a dirtbike?

It wont nessassarily be 12, it will be whatever size they can start fitting on a bigger bike.

But even then, I'm sure either this law will be banished, for the obvious fact that kids arent going to be sucking out the lead out of break lines.
If not, manufatures will probably just change the way to make them to allow them to use them.

I think it will all be over soon enough, if not, people selling these bikes used, will make a lot of money since they will be hte only market.

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proc2009-02-18T13:55:20Z

I think the other way to look at it - is if the market for thes e bikes is big enough and the rest of the world follows suit. the manufacturers will remove the lead content. this will increase the bikes price, but will get around the law. although i agree with the others they may make certain exceptions to the law. but considering most of the lead content is in the solder. with silver solder being available its not a huge problem for the manufacturers to reduce content. but changing the price of an Oz of lead to an Oz of silver ???

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