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 As the battle to bring youth motorcycles and ATV’s back to the dealership showroom floors seems to hesitate, advocacy groups are indicating their disappointment in agency officials.
The Motorcycle Industry Council (MIC), the Specialty Vehicle Institute of America (SVIA) and its members are disappointed that Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Chairman Nancy Nord announced today that she intended to vote against the petition that our industry submitted for an exclusion for all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and motorcycles from the lead content limits found in the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). The organization believed that a recent petition submitted to the agency was based on sound science and showed that there is no measurable risk to children resulting from lead exposure from these products…Â DetailsÂ
Makers and sellers of ATVs and motorbikes continue to suffer losses nationwide because of a well-meaning but overbroad regulation aimed at protecting children from lead.
Ever see a kid chewing on the air valve of an ATV tire? Licking the battery? Biting handlebars?
They all can contain lead and that’s the kind of effort it would take for it to endanger kids, critics of the regulation say.
Yet, an immediate halt has been placed on these motor vehicle sales. Also, there’s no grandfather provision for models already sitting in stores… Details