February 5th, 2009 | 
Author: As mentioned in my previous post Honda sent a letter to their dealers asking them to remove from stock, showroom floors and their websites all ATV’s and motorcycles intended for the use of kids 12 and younger.
National media is finally catching on to the fight that many small and large businesses have been battling ever since the law was passed last August. Since the law includes ALL children’s products and is retroactive to current stock, Honda’s not taking any chances and has requested their dealers to removed those items for use by children 12 and younger.
More here as reported by The New York Times
We sell little electric motorcycles. We also sent letter to our dealers today advising them of the CPSIA. We are suspending USA sales on Feb 10th. We are a small American company that designs and makes electric dirtbikes for children 4 to 10 years old. They are quiet so kids can ride in the back garden, they have no gas or oil to spill, and no hot engines for a kid to get burns from, they have a speed control set by the parents, and no lead paint. The one safety feature we didn’t think to have to design for was no lead in the steel and components in case a kid decided to suck on them! A kid is more likely to get sick for the lead in the urban dirt on their tires, but I hope a parent wouldn’t let their child lick the tires either.