Three Wheelers and their legalities

[JTM]

Hi,
I'm Taylor. I'm doing a public speaking project on the reason three wheelers were banned. I understand that the justice department deemed them unsafe and threatened to sue all companies selling them, making them liable for injuries. So to halt that, they made an agreement to stop selling in the US. Does anyone have any sources of articles etc. that i can use. They must be legit because I need to site the sources.

Thank you,
Taylor

Please help. This info is hard to come by@

[Daddio]

The Library of Congress. You may have to do some digging but it should be there.

[WIkid500]

CPSC. there is a big thread about the legalities of the matter somewhere around here.

[83ATC185S]

cpsc, they are the ones!

[Daddio]

This is some more recent activity by the cpsc. If you want the actual document from 1987 you may have to contact them and request it under the freedom of information act. They only have digital archives going back to 1996.
The Library of Congress has tons of legal information along with almost anything else you can imagine. I used to use it years ago when I was politically active.It seems that a thing called ask a librarian now. That might help as it is very tedious work finding more obscure information.
Check this out.

http://74.125.95.104/search?q=cache:lwMrzxEAH40J:www.consumerfed.org/pdfs/atv_petition.pdf+cpsc+ban+on+three+wheeled+all+ter rain+vehicles&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us

[Taiser]

Bastards....:mad:

[Groundworx]

Bastards....:mad:


Agreed:beer

If trikes were not banned though, they would not be as sought after as they are. Still sucks though. If they were still in production, I could only imagine what some of the manufactures could come up with.

[firehart]

I get into that discussion all the time with my friends. I tell them more people have been hurt on four wheelers now because more people ride them. I tell them "Watch your kids and don't ride stupid and your less likely to get hurt".

[BIGRED__87]

I get static from people all the time about riding a 3-wheeler and how unsafe it supposedly is. I use the same response every time. It doesn't matter if you have 3 wheels or 100 wheels underneath you. If you drive like a maniac, guess what's going to happen? That response always shuts them up.

[cybrman]

Insert machine name here Don't kill/hurt people, people and their stupidity kill/hurt people.
Guns
Trikes
Cars
etc..

[Ol Deuce]

Here in Montana they run the three and four wheeler as the same! time has passed and its true more people get hurt on four wheelers . as you get older brain cells should be more trained???????????

[Texas 200x]

Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my 3 wheeler!

[Mobular]

Hi,
I'm doing a public speaking project on the reason three wheelers were banned. I understand that the justice department deemed them unsafe and threatened to sue all companies selling them, making them liable for injuries. So to halt that, they made an agreement to stop selling in the U.S.

Good on you for wanting to speak publicly on the highly misunderstood demise of production trikes.
I must urge you to discourage anyone from promoting the fallacy of a trike ban. You yourself refferred to it as if it were true, but then a moment later brought up the true reason for their disappearance. It was infact, a threat of major lawsuits that prodded them to drop trike production and concentrate on quad development.
That move was inevitable.
By 1985, everyone already had quads in production. Look at Suzuki. They tried only a few trike models, but concentrated heavily on quads. Honda and Yamaha already had quads to offer and a switch to the new platforms would not be a big problem.
The could have stood up to the pending lawsuits and their doctored evidence and very effective propaganda, or just stop production of a small percentage of their total revenue.
So, what they in essence did was, cut their losses, move on to the next step in the evolution of ATVs and go on from there. It was only smart business.