Any bikers around?AARR

[golfmk3]

  Heard the eu want to stop people from working on or modding bikes, and no bikes older than 7 years in built up areas.
anyway - heres the petition if anyones interested.

http://www.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/16322

[DubFan]

Link broken.

[Nodz]

heres another one to another patition site about it

http://www.ridersarevoters.org/how-the-eu-anti-tampering-regulation-is-progressing/

heres the main parts of whats happening :

The 10 very real European issues that we still need to draw attention to are:

The Anti tampering Regulation: Specifically Article 18 which wants to stop all modifications to complete power train, from airbox to controlling the rear tyre profile.

Compulsory ABS. If we can’t stop this, we must get a switch so that we have an option in difficult conditions where ABS doesn’t function well.

Automatic headlights on
OBD. On Board Diagnostics so that easy roadside checks can be made of our emissions and so that constant readouts of engine performance can be obtained. Expensive, complicated and with the threat, rather like a tacho, of identifying past riding style…

RMI. Repair and Maintenance Information. Rather than keeping it hidden and available for huge expense, there is a chance that manufacturers will be forced to provide ECU codes etc for a fee. What that fee is remains to be seen.

The very worrying article 52: “If systems, components or seperate technical units on a list in a delegated act to this regulation, have a dual use, for vehicles intended exclusively for racing on roads and for vehicles intended for use on public roads, they may not be sold or offered for sale to consumers” So if your K&N filter can fit a CBR race bike and a CBR road bike, the best way to police that, is to make it illegal to sell the filter in Europe.The Delegated Acts are the most scary thing, as they are the lists and details drawn up by the unelected and we won’t get to see what they are including until after the Regulation has been passed!

In solidarity with the French we need to be drawing attention to their recent government proposal to ban all bikes over 7 years old from an urban area and to make the wearing of day-glo/ reflective clothing compulsory.

Full sleeve day-glo clothing for riders and passengers has been proposed in the Irish Parliament too.

All these issues lead to the same thing, that we must take the blame for the incompetence of other road users. And while the emergency stop has been removed as a compulsory element of the UK car driving test, we are jumping through hoops with ill-judged UK interpretations of EU licencing directives.

Another EU licencing Directive is on its way (3DLD) to step the bike licencing system still further and the DfT and DSA still haven’t sorted the consultation process, even though it is meant to be in law by now and enacted January 2013.

[dellenty69]

The eu legislation governors are a bunch of no life, over paid sadistic cnuts. How about they focus on getting this god forsaken hell hole off a country out of its miserable decline that they precariously dropped us in, Before they start bringing "European" laws into this country that have no positive effects besides satisfying motorcycle haters.

In 2007 there were 2946 deaths on British roads. 49% of those were in cars, 20% motorcyclists. So that's 1,444 deaths chalked up to four wheels and 589 to two.

in the same year, 646 pedestrians were killed in road accidents because they cant read a high way code!

Oh, and just as an additional point, they claim that 650 bikers die per year and that the number is rising, when in fact 589 lost their lives in 2007 and 493 in 2008 , and studies show that there has been a further plummet of around 18% more between 08' and 10'.


So, are the EU's mp's trying to make us safer, or are they just pissed off that there wifes are f**king the pool cleaner?