Compulsory dayglo clothing for riders is getting a lot of press lately
and rightly so.
Demonstrations in France this weekend are about that and the banning of
bikes older than 7 years from cities and a host of other anti-bike
legislation.
However Ireland, which at least feels closer to home than France, is
also pressing ahead with 'Full Sleeve' dayglo.
The Irish Government ".... proposes the introduction of
regulations for the mandatory wearing of high visibility upper body
clothing with full sleeves for rider and pillion passenger."
Qoute taken from Section 4.4.5 of the Irish Road Safety Authority's
NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE SAFETY ACTION PLAN 2010 – 2014
http://www.rsa.ie/Documents/Road%20S...ction_Plan.pdf
Please remember that there still is no research on which to base this
decision, but more importantly it is another case of putting the onus of
responsibility on the victim and undermining any element of freedom of
choice for the rider.
IF it was a justifiable safety issue, then surely the bikes most
frequently involved in accidents (under 125s in an urban environment)
would be the ones to concentrate on, but bizarrely the French plan is to
exempt these!
MAG has already had the Leeds Demo (in May) and the Brum demo is on July
2nd. We need to be vocal.
I feel this'll be a summer of MAG activity...
> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Say-No...06289546073856
http://www.mag-uk.org/en/index/a6296
http://www.fema-online.eu/
