{"id":3967,"date":"2009-03-17T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2009-03-17T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T17:00:52","slug":"motorcycle-atv-2-us-lawmakers-promise-bills-to-undo-mini-bike-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3967","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle ATV &#8211; 2 US lawmakers promise bills to undo mini-bike ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montana Senators Jon Tester and Rep. Denny Rehberg are each proposing legislation to undo a ban on sales of mini-bikes and parts for them.<\/p>\n<p>The off-road motorcycles and ATVs were unwittingly banned as a result a new national limit on lead in children&#8217;s products. It has left dealers holding thousands of the machines and even forced the cancellation of some motocross racing.<\/p>\n<p>Dealers say it is silly to think children will eat their mini-bike parts.<\/p>\n<p>Tester says his bill will also exempt &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/ap\/2009\/03\/16\/ap6174188.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana Senators Jon Tester and Rep. Denny Rehberg are each proposing legislation to undo a ban on sales of mini-bikes and parts for them. The off-road motorcycles and ATVs were unwittingly banned as a result a new national limit on lead in children&#8217;s products. It has left dealers holding thousands of the machines and even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,38,43,8,39,40,44,45,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling","category-cyclocross","category-motocross","category-motorcycle","category-mt-bike","category-new-bike-products-testing","category-new-motorcycle-products-tests","category-off-road-dirt-track","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3969,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}