If you don't want this please email this to everyone. (This is NO JOKE!) The following was a pubished article. I posted it here and I would like somone to post it in other forums, the forum won't let us double post, so send to our Yamaha, Honda, Suzuki etc forums. If we don't respond all the Raptors, DS650s, V-Forces will be dead and done, as I recall in the Three Wheeled Days.

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Voice an Opinion on ATV Safety

Ehlert Powersports
Friday June 20, 2003


The deadline for submitting comments on ATV safety to the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is July 5.

On June 5, the commission held a hearing in Morgantown, W.Va., to gather information on ATV safety and to hear comments on a proposal to ban the sale of full-sized ATVs for use by children under 16. According to the All-Terrain Vehicle Association (ATVA) the federal commission could be laying the groundwork for a displacement limit of 399cc on ATV engines.

More than 35 people testified at the meeting, with about half charging that ATVs are unsafe, and the other half saying ATVs are a viable form of individual and family recreation.

ATV critics told the three-member commission that installing rollbars, seatbelts, and governors to limit speed, banning kids under 16 from riding ATVs, and requiring ATV riders to wear helmets, stay off public roads and never carry passengers are just some of the steps that they believe could improve ATV safety.

But Doug Morris, director of the ATVA, testified that a review of ATV-related accidents indicates that vehicle misuse and ill-prepared riders appear to be the fundamental causes of crashes. Educating riders about the need to wear helmets and other safety gear, not carry passengers and stay off public roads are key measures that could reduce crashes, he said.

The Morgantown meeting marked the first time since 1985, as far as the commission staff could remember, that the panel had gone outside Washington, D.C., to conduct a hearing on product safety. The 1985 hearings also involved ATVs, and two years later three-wheeled ATVs were banned.

Comments should be captioned "ATV Hearing" and sent to: Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington D.C. 20207. For more information, or to sign a petition, go to www.ATVAonline.com.

 

that not a big deal. Ill just pull one of my spark plugs out, then I'll be below 400 cc's.

 

Thats why i still have the old mojave! FUN bike! not a power house but fun with a few modds!