President Signs CPSIA Lead Non-Ban Bill By rapidjim (Read 520 times)

[rapidjim]

Remember a couple years ago when they banned Youth ATV sales because of Lead. Well Read this:

www.dealernews.com/dealernews/LATEST+NEWS/President-Obama-signs-bill-excluding-powersports-f/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/735583?contextCategoryId=48447

Jim/Owner
Rapid Repair

[bobf]

New to motorcycle and ATV activities so did not know about this law. Just what was the problem anyway? Lead in the paint? Lead in the gas? Lead in their butts?

Can anyone explain the problem and the relief just recieved?
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[jct842]

some one found lead in chinese paint.......any way gov banned sales of machines sized for children. or some thing like that. little kids probably should not be unsupervised on them anyway. I have seen 6 and 7 year olds on mini moto cross bikes racing and the poor kids have no idea what happens when you get a little finger between chain and sprocket! heck 16 year olds don't have a clue about how to keep from turning over a pickup truck around here either. john

[kz1000st]

Most adults don't have a clue to keep their fingers out of dangerous spots. That's why motorcycles and scooters come equipped with a zillion warning stickers slapped on them. "This tank contains a petroleum distillate product. Do not ingest" I'm sure future mini cycles will have warnings against chewing on the fenders-for both kids and adults to see.

[bobf]

Thanks for those posts.

I grew up in the lead filled age and did OK. I also grew up in a Mercury filled world and lived through that also. I remember as a kid chewing on painted sticks and window sills as my teeth came in. We once played with Mercury, rolling balls of it around, and getting it to join together again. We would dip pennies into it and rub Mercury over the surface to make them look shiny like silver dimes.

I am glad I grew up before every thing in this world needed to have poison stickers on them. Look at how California has troubled this world. Just about everything you see or use has a label that says may create cancer per the California disclosure rules. I wonder about some of those rules as sugar will kill if you eat enough, but is required in some quantity for better health and it makes many foods easier to eat. Salt can kill if you eat enough, but is required for good health is some quantity.

Mercury! Look what the enviro persons have done to us. They insist the we now change from the regular incandescent bulbs to the fluorescent types that put Mercury into our houses, as dangerous as it is these days. This will soon be in our dumps and land fills. Where has our intelligence taken us.

Nothing serious, just reminiscing to the better days of living.
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[rapidjim]

Being almost 58 years young I wonder how my friends and I survived. By the safety standards of today we all should be dead or crippled up. Bicycle helmets, knee pads. stickered this stickered that, child safety seats in the middle of the car so the air bags don't get them, heck I could go on. I would hazard a guess that if parents would be parents and teach and watch their children the majority of this "crap" would not be necessary. In my opinion, I feel they make laws and standards for something else to do and scare the crap out of folks. Don't eat Red M&Ms, the red dye is hazardous to your health. It sure is if you could eat that much of them!

[bobf]

Your just a kid. I am 78 and still kicking.

I love my scooter but haven't had much time on it yet. I ordered in January received it late February. Did the PDI and assembly in March. Too cold and windy until June. Now I am recovering from a session with Shingles and take some narcotic drugs for pain killers. I won't drive if I feel the slightest unsteady. I have now only 50+ miles on it. Once I get off the medicine I will start to add more miles.

By late fall I hope to be in Arizona as I must now get off the mountains, 6,300 here, and go closer to sea level. Either move or wear the air tanks around town and have a machine in the house to keep me going and sleeping well. I had oxygen support 6 years ago for about six months. Don't want to have to do that again if I can avoid it.

Good thing in Arizona is that I will be able to ride all winter. July and August may be just too hot to get out and ride.
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