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Message: [QUOTE="jmics19067, post: 584312, member: 27963"] They will go after anything that someone else might think is a liability. they say that 3 wheelers where unsafe because of too many many fatalities. Nobody who has there head on straight would blame a vehicle if the majority of the fatalities< like 80%> where not wearing a helmet and an alarming number <about 50%> involved drugs, alchohol and unsafe practices like riding two people on it . I fail to see how it can be a design flaw of the vehicle being unsafe.Of course it can't be the numbskull on it that is unsafe , that recquires accountability. In New Jersey they have signs all over the place about no riding of dirt bikes, mini bikes, atv, fourwheelers or any off road vehicles in the Pinelands . yet a car or something with a liscence plate is legal<funny most of the four wheelers I know of are liscenced street vehicles and dual sport bikes are street legal dirt bikes aren't they?> One of big deals with that is the majority of these offroad vehicles don't have a spark arrestor causing forest fires in the dry times. Anybody ever think on how hot a catylitic converter gets on a car? someone throwing a lit cigarette out of it? or my favorite is Fort Dix practing with live ammunition lobbing shells right into the tinder box. Yet my bike does have spark arrestor. Or go buy a new kdx 200 in california or new hampshire and try and ride it somewheres. hmmm 3 wheels illegal 2 strokes illegal, trying to make 4 wheelers illegal loud four strokes illegal how long do you actually think it will be before everything we might possibley enjoy that involves a motor sport will be illegal if you dont ride on a cosed course track having to pay huge insurance or EPA /DEP fees. helmet laws for street bikers and seat belt laws "because if it saves one life it is worth it " and yet half of the school buses out there don't have seat belts. wearing a walk man while driving is illegal because you cant hear whats going on yet new cars a being sold with 100 watt stereo systems let alone what you can buy aftermarket. New cars and suvs with seatbelts ,air bags, crumple zones and crash bumpers but with cup holders, phone jacks and tv's? The amount of times my kids make some hurried excited response trying to get me to see what Barney did even if was on a video tape they saw a thousand times is too many to begin with. Just what I need while changing lanes while zipping thru traffic trying to turn down the stereo so I can answer my phone while eating my supersized fries at 85, 90 miles an hour. :silly: smokers suing tobacco companies, fat people suing mcdonalds oh the list is endless of numbskulls and idotic ideas but making new laws and banning things will not bring good judgement and common sense to people.If I choose to be a fat, smoking, helmetless, 3wheel rider it should be my choice A law shouldn't be made to ban these things, a law should be made though to keep lawyers from profiting from it when I have a heart attack crashing because I got light headed from lack of oxygen. [/QUOTE]

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