Buying a lemon is all fine and dandy when you're looking to make a margarita or use it on some fresh fish, but in the world of cars, trucks, and other machines, it's one of the worst feelings around. You've just spent thousands upon thousands of dollars, likely leveraging a good portion of it, on a new machine and then, without warning, it goes boom.
And while it sucks to have to deal with insurance, dealerships, and other interested parties like the manufacturers themselves, US lemon laws really only surround manufacturing defects on cars, trucks, and SUVs. Not so much powersport machines. And while they're rarer than in the automotive sector, instances can occur, which often leaves those customers scrambling to figure out what recourse—if any—they have.
Cough, cough, KTM camshafts, cough.
But in a bid to better insulate motorcyclists from purchasing lemons, only to then be stuck with them, Pennsylvania's legislators are looking to extend the state's lemon laws to finally include new bikes. And that's a good thing.
