Author Topic: They're gonna ban chrome!!!  (Read 2574 times)

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fun2drum

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on: August 06, 2009, 02:31:04 am
Look what I stumbled on tonight while surfing a Buell Blast forum...

http://motorcycles.about.com/b/2009/04/01/motorcycle-chrome-to-be-banned-by-january-1-2010.htm

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Reply #1 on: August 06, 2009, 02:38:57 am
April Fools! ;D
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Reply #2 on: August 06, 2009, 03:26:04 am
Yep, several people in the Blast forum got fooled before somebody finally figured it out.   I thought it was funny even though it's way past April.   
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Reply #3 on: August 06, 2009, 12:40:49 pm
Oh how I wish it was true. :-\


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Reply #4 on: August 06, 2009, 02:02:17 pm
perhaps he was expanding on bill #a 3750 now in the senate which is a bill to limit the amount of polution. introduced into the environment by the chrome (and other) plating  processes which will make the plating of many items much too expensive to continued. but dont worry maybe we"ll get polished alloy instead.
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