European Govt Laws on Motorcyclists

[clubberxx]

Are they for real? Well I've voted...
Tell me your views, vote or pass on to others...

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/22251

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/26931

Honestly..

[pluggedinpete]

Signed both

[goz1960]

Signed too.

[FJ_Biker]

Yes there is a load off stuff winging around the EU parliament at the moment.

Most of the anti-tampering legislation is already law in Germany, they are trying to make it Europe wide.
As far as I am aware filtering is only being talked about at the moment.
Bikes over 7 years old banned from town centres is purely French.
Hi-vis is now law in two countries, I don't think this issue will ever go away.

More info at
http://www.mag-uk.org/en/news
http://www.fema-online.eu/
http://ukfrancebikers.com/

MAG is fighting hard against many of these laws but at the end of the day they only have so much money to fight with, for £25 pound a year membership you can help them out. Part of MAG's funds along with other riders groups across Europe go to part fund FEMA.

[abxv535]

done

[Swanny]

Not only are these bad news on controlling what we can do they also will effect the resale value of your bike. The demand for bikes will plummet >:(

[Rabb]

Both signed.

[supermancss]

Signed

[JayP]

Both signed

[Scotty]

I've signed them both, but with reservations - if the people writing these things want them to be taken seriously they should do at least two things:
1. Get their facts straight - for instance, air cooled bikes aren't going to blow up in a traffic queue FFS! (filtering is illegal in the States, but in the days of old the streets weren't littered with blown-up air cooled bikes during rush hour) ::)
2. Learnt to spell and punctuate correctly - politicians will give something a lot more credit if it appears to have been written by someone who is at least reasonably literate (helps even more if the subject about which they're petitioning is accurate). If the writer can't spell, they should have their hard work checked by someone who can... ::)

[Col]

Save the Syrians!!!!!! Save the Syrians !!!!!! :-* :-*

[wasted_ace]

I dont have any problem whatsoever with having to wear Hi-Viz clothing during daylight hours..as long as its made compulsory that all car drivers paint their vehicles bright dayglo yellow and have a flashing amber light on the roof...all their bumpers must be fitted with a large "Elf & Safety" approved sponge to limit the serious injury to bikers they hit and a special treatment programme to assist weaning them off their mobile phones when driving a ton of lethal metal ;)

[Jon_W]

Is this anything new??? Didn't we have all of this back last year??? :-?

[Morticia]

Ash44, I LIKE YOUR BIKE!!!

I've signed them all. Had them up on my facebook page and one of my nerdy friends said it was all lies and I should do my homework before posting such things. I didn't agree with him, but just thought I'd mention it.

[Swanny]

Signed them both even though I don't think it makes any difference. Bit like voting for the government.


"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it."
Mark Twain.

:-/

[wiltshire builders]

Bloody hell, if she is the voice of motorcycling then we're in big trouble.

[lolliver]

Signed.

I'll gladly stop riding my 11 year old motorcycle around when they take all 10+ year old, black smoke belching Transit vans off of the road.

[Senna(Dan)]

The only way to get the Euro plums off their backsides on this is say fine, screw everyone over and do the same to cars!
Can you see the major performance parts producers allowing this, they seem to think that because we are a minority it wont matter. These companies need customers to survive and if little chav on the corner isn't going to buy a massive exhausts and decent spark plugs then we could see the end of a massive market.
What these guys really want is there own supercars for them and everybody else can have a one model car that only comes in one colour.
Rant over

[GingerWizard86]

Signed.

Not sure how they would go about bringing this in, surely it would be non-enforceable.

How many bikers can they send to jail for having after market parts.... They'd have to let all the real criminals out...

[Carbonkid]

All Signed...