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Offline MickeyX

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No motor-toys for the girls and boys
« on: February 06, 2009, 07:43:23 PM »
I came across this on another forum I'm on. All I can say is...

WTF??

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/dirt-bikes/?partner=rss
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Re: No motor-toys for the girls and boys
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2009, 07:45:08 PM »
They can't make batteries and brakes without lead?
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Re: No motor-toys for the girls and boys
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2009, 08:19:36 PM »
Of course, if this actually happens, watch to see what the rest of the 'civilised' world does. Are we sure this wasn't supposed  to have been a story on April 1st?
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Re: No motor-toys for the girls and boys
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2009, 09:24:57 PM »
IMO if your child is chewing battery cables and brakes, your child should not be riding a dirt bike.
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Re: No motor-toys for the girls and boys
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2009, 09:43:06 PM »
Quote from: Kit on February 06, 2009, 09:24:57 PM
IMO if your child is chewing battery cables and brakes, your child should not be riding a dirt bike.

Exactly.  But these days parents don't want to be held responsible.
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Re: No motor-toys for the girls and boys
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2009, 10:00:27 PM »
Nope. They want someone else to be responsible so when the little idiot chews on a battery cable and gets lead poisoning, they can sue the bike manu, the battery company and the cable company.  :(
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Re: No motor-toys for the girls and boys
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2009, 10:01:45 PM »
When I was a kit, I mean wee little, I went fishing, bit my lead sinkers shut on my line, etc etc, and I'm...
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I'm... .uh...








fine?
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Re: No motor-toys for the girls and boys
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2009, 10:04:23 PM »
Quote from: Kit on February 06, 2009, 09:24:57 PM
IMO if your child is chewing battery cables and brakes, your child should not be riding a dirt bike.


If your 12 year old is chewing on cables and brakes he would probably just dilute the gene pool anyway...

but seriously, it's the new Americana you guys, we need to protect everyone from themselves.
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Offline martino1972

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Re: No motor-toys for the girls and boys
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2009, 03:54:34 AM »
we need to go back where all those stupid safety crap rules didnt exist......all of ourparent grew up in now so called dangerous #$%*.....they grew up fine,so did we.......the new generation wil be so protected from any kind of germ that if they DO catch a germ they just about die cause their body has no resistance to it......
we are growing little pancies these days,it's time to get beck to real people with real problems.....not the lysol germ free world bull#$%*we are trying to create here......#$%*ing idiots...... thought up by a couple of those idiotsthat never had a dirty finger nail in their own stupid little ass protected life.......'
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Re: No motor-toys for the girls and boys
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2009, 04:24:06 AM »
i wonder how i survived riding my bicycle all those years without a helmet
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Re: No motor-toys for the girls and boys
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2009, 07:47:12 AM »
Quote from: tramp on February 07, 2009, 04:24:06 AM
i wonder how i survived riding my bicycle all those years without a helmet

luck.

unfortunatlly it runs out, good thing you wear one now.
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