It's been about a year since motorcycles and ATVs intended for kids 12 and under were banned by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, and thanks to the legal restriction, America's lil' tykes are still being protected from those oh-so-dangerous lead batteries.
The Motorcycle Industry Council has been fighting the ban inanity since it started, and their latest push for a Congressional solution uses a barrage of multimedia messages centered around the Dealernews International Powersports Expo, which will be held February 12 - 15.
Encouraging motorcycle industry members, exhibitors, and dealers to speak up about the ban (which the MIC estimates could end up costing a billion dollars a year), general counsel Paul Vitrano dispatches a video call-to-action which suggests:
- Texting "StopTheBan" or "STB" to 30101; when you receive a text response, reply with "yes" to join the campaign.
- Send a letter to congress. Instructions are available on www.stopthebannow.com; last year's expo campaign generated over 5,000 hand-signed letters.
- Send an email to congress, which you can do via www.stopthebannow.com; last year's efforts generated over 1,000,000 electronic messages to Congress.
- Phones and video; the MIC will have Skype stations and video camera booths so multimedia messages can be sent to Congress.
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Good on the MIC!
Talk about a knee jerk reaction by people who have no idea what they’re talking about.
These are the same politicians who bitch & complain about ATV’s being dangerous. What’s dangerous is the idiots who get sxxx faced then climb on an ATV with 1 or 2 drunken buddies, or let their 10 year old ride it.
Someone gets hurt or killed and then it’s the ATV, or manufacturers fault.
If responsible and intelligent parents want to teach their kids how to ride and enjoy the sport – LET THEM!
If the parents don’t meet either of the 2 noted criteria, then they’ll just find some other way to hurt themselves or their kids.
Guns don’t kill people…..