CPSIA Articles
News
It’s legal to sell dirt bikes to kids again
On Friday, President Obama signed an amendment to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 into law, categorically excluding motorcycles and ATVs from the list of lead-containing, child-targeted products banned from sale. We broke the story that CPSIA would ban children’s bikes back in January, 2009, a move that’s estimated to have cost the industry up to $1 billion a year in lost s...
15 August 2011
News
Kids just want to ride
Remember the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act? It was a knee jerk reaction to all those toys with lead in them coming out of China a couple years ago. The problem was, in banning all products that were intended for children and contained even trace amounts of lead, CPSIA also ended up banning the sale of children’s motorcycles and quads. There’s been a temporary stay of enforcement in p...
25 January 2011
News
Republican pedantry costs motorcycle industry $1 billion
Want to know why kid's motorcycles and ATVs haven't been granted an exemption from the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act? There's one reason: Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairperson Nancy Nord, a Republican Bush Appointee. >According to Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), one of the chief proponents of the bill, Congress never intended for CPSIA-- a knee-jerk law intended to stop the sale of lea...
13 March 2009
News
M.I.C. predicts billion dollar industry loss in 2009 thanks to CPSIA
We're both speechless and infuriated by the colossal blunder that is the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, recently handed to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Since our mothers taught us to not speak if we didn't have anything nice to say, we'll let the press release speak for itself. Otherwise we'll just go on a giant rant.If you haven't contacted your congressman, here are helpfu...
25 February 2009