Why the death of 3 wheelers?

[TrailerRider]

So I was riding quads when 3 wheelers where banned from being built.
I have asked a few people but most say because they were/are unsafe and that was the reason. Motor cycles in their own right are more dangeruos. what about cars, trucks, steak knives, tin can lids, fishing hooks, big riggs etc.. They are all just as dangeruos. Shouldn't they have been outlawed also? Fair is fair right? In this day and age with the advancments in suspensions and drive trains etc. They could build a 3 wheeler that was almost as stable as a quad and they are not all that stable either. Imagein what a 2008 Honda 3 wheeler would look like and ride like.

1. So what was the final reason for outlawing 3 wheeler productions?
2. Anyone ever started a petition to bring them back? If not, I would like to start one. With all the knowledge this place has there could be a real chance to bring them back.

Also if there is no petitions then we could start a thread with valid reasons why it should be allowed again.

Drop your thoughts!

[SYKO]

man, this has been covered SO much.. and a petition...well... there would have to be ALOT more than just the whole forum membership sign a pettition for this to even have a mino effect, just recently we had the opportunity to have a "new" trike but, either from only a small amount of interest or the companies so called woried about problems later deal, it never went all the way through. Do a search you will find 1000's of pages of threads concerning this.

[ATC-Eric]

The "death" of our beloved trikes was due to: lawsuits, money hungry lawyers, and "concerned" parents with nothing else to do.

What it comes down to, is parents putting 12 year old Johny on a bike thats to big for him, and then blamming Honda for building an "unsafe" bike.

They werent banned, the companys just agreed to stop production for the United states. Since we were their biggest market, production didnt last long after that in other countrys.


This topic has been discussed indepth, theres not a snowballs chance in ---- that trikes will ever be produced again, just shy of the little Chinese ones that are in the foreign market.


Eric

[oldskool83]

you want a new trike you build your own...just pick your color, motor and chassis and build what ya like.

[TrailerRider]

They werent banned, the companys just agreed to stop production for the United states. Since we were their biggest market, production didnt last long after that in other countrys.

So you can still mass produce and sell 3 wheelers? Am I understanding that correctly?

[oldskool83]

not sure...there were other 3wheeled vehicals but those have stopped also.

cushman golf carts were 3wheeled up to 2001 and road legal....??? dont ask me how or why.

john deer made them 5 wheeler gators also...that was still in the early 90, i think 92/93ish i remebered seeing them new at the dealers.

[Dirtcrasher]

They aren't dead yet, some of us plan on keeping them alive forever!!

[atctim]

Yes - If Honda wanted to start making & selling 3 wheelers again in the United States - there is no law saying they can't. the Consent Decree was lifter almost 10 years ago.

[3Wheelers4Life]

They werent banned, the companys just agreed to stop production for the United states. Since we were their biggest market, production didnt last long after that in other countrys.

So you can still mass produce and sell 3 wheelers? Am I understanding that correctly?

as far as i understand, you can still produce and sell them, just not in the usa. but places like Canada, or Europe should be fine. so getting 3 wheelers to be produced and sold in other countries is a possibility and can be done, but it is highly unlikely.

Yes - If Honda wanted to start making & selling 3 wheelers again in the United States - there is no law saying they can't. the Consent Decree was lifter almost 10 years ago.

i maybe wrong, but i think the cpsc just recently passed a complete ban on 3 wheelers. they can no longer be sold in the usa ever again, unless the cpsc voluntarily lifts the ban. see this link.
http://www.3wheelerworldforums.com/s...ad.php?t=68925

[84honda200s]

man, this has been covered SO much.. Do a search you will find 1000's of pages of threads concerning this.

at least a 1000. ive bin on this sight a while and seen that same question asked so many times it gives me bad dreams.




dam that crappy baby sitting service called the cpsc dam em to HELL!!!

[Nightbiker07]

wait.....how can the CPSC ban something like that without putting it to a *Edited**Edited**Edited**Edited**Edited**Edited**E dited* vote? its DO NOT TYPE AROUND THE WORD FILTER., the public should be allowed to vote on weather or not somthing is to be banned.....not let some......DO NOT TYPE AROUND THE WORD FILTER!!!!!!!!!!!!decide it for us..........

and has anyone seen those 3 wheeled cars? there like 4000 brand new and get like 70MPG and top out at 50mph.....

[factoryX]

i still say cpsc is the recarnation of hitler

[84honda200s]

i still say cpsc is the recarnation of hitler

exactly rite mt friend.


now for the question "how can the cpsc do this" well it easy they are the cpsc and can do what they please. arnt you guys glad they are protecting us from them deadly 3 wheelers if there is anything i hate bad it is the cpsc. it gotta be the only group of "experts" that i truly HATE. no not dislike but HATE. ooo well i guess nothing i can do about it. except this . lets just hope the new "hitler" falls and goes to hell where they belong.

[US904sho]

Well, heres how i see it, ill run for president when i get to be 35 in 20 years and when i get elected president i WILL BRING EM BACK!!! but that 20 years away. Myabe honda should make 3 wheelers in caniada or china and sell them in caniada and have co vet people smuggle them accross the border?? I think itll work get the word out.

[ceaserthethird]

Why don't we start a Small Company Like Tiger Did , Made in the USA !

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