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Title: Europe is banning chrome for 2024 - What?
Post by: Grizzly on February 27, 2024, 10:12:40 AM
Possibly this is why H-D has gone the route it has with so many blacked-out parts on their latest offerings.   :nixweiss:


https://www.webbikeworld.com/europe-is-banning-chrome-for-2024/
Title: Re: Europe is banning chrome for 2024 - What?
Post by: FLSTFI Dave on February 27, 2024, 10:40:13 AM
Wow, that is crazy.  Bet Comifornia follows suit soon.
Title: Re: Europe is banning chrome for 2024 - What?
Post by: Ironhorse on February 27, 2024, 01:11:41 PM
Waiting for the "From my cold dead hands" posts,....
Title: Re: Europe is banning chrome for 2024 - What?
Post by: D-N-D on February 27, 2024, 06:03:57 PM
Well That Sucks !!!  >:(
Title: Re: Europe is banning chrome for 2024 - What?
Post by: ultra13 on February 29, 2024, 02:34:27 PM
Would like to see the true study on that crap. Catch word "can".   What is so toxic, the process of?
Your right, I can see Cali following suit.
Title: Re: Europe is banning chrome for 2024 - What?
Post by: Ironhorse on February 29, 2024, 06:45:29 PM
C'mon folks, won't be long till we send our stuff to India or Pakistan to be chromed.
Title: Re: Europe is banning chrome for 2024 - What?
Post by: OBB on February 29, 2024, 07:33:22 PM
C'mon folks, won't be long till we send our stuff to India or Pakistan to be chromed.
I'd be surprised if it doesn't come from there now.

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Title: Re: Europe is banning chrome for 2024 - What?
Post by: Ironhorse on February 29, 2024, 08:40:35 PM
I'd be surprised if it doesn't come from there now.

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Well that's what happened in the 70s and 80s with leathers.  The EPA discovered that the chemicals used to tan and dye hides were damaging to the environment so they instituted all these steps and processes to capture the leftover chemicals and prevent them from leeching into the ground and water table (that's a good thing).  But a lot of the local tanners didn't want to comply with the expensive process and just decided to ship the business overseas.  So now the leather comes from American cows, is sent to Pakistan for tanning and dyeing and then shipped back to US craftsmen who make the leather clothing.

At least this is how it was explained to me by the folks at Bates Leathers in Signal Hill/Long Beach, CA. as I was ordering my clothing to be made.
Title: Re: Europe is banning chrome for 2024 - What?
Post by: FLSTFI Dave on March 01, 2024, 07:42:56 AM
That's sad about the leather.  I can see that happening with chrome.