MooN Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 always have been... despite my busy schedule for the weekend I found time to take part in the demo ride organised by the FFMC ( French FEM affiliated motorcycle action group) protesting against the proposed legislation imposing a "Control Technique" ( french equivqlent of the MOT) for motorcycles, and this despite numerous independant and even govt sponsored studies concluding that: "no evidence can be found of a link between mechanical failure and motorcycle accidents" " No other european country where such testing exists can demonstrate any corrolation between the testing being implemented and and a reduction in the number of accidents imvolving motorcycles" " technical or mechanical failure is a demonstrable cause in les than 0,3% of motorcycles accidents in France" and so on and so forth. The main mouving force behind the attempt at implementing this new legislation is a millionaire businessman whose name is... DEKRA which just hqppens to be the same name as the largest chaine of MOT testing stations in the country ( the potential market is possibly worth 5 billion euros)... so yes, the french are revolting in the way they are best known for, despite covid Regs, and despite shit weather. about 250 bikes held a protest ride around the 3 DEKRA testing stations this afternoon. It may well be a waste of time, but similar demos have been held all over france this week end and with general elections looming, who knows. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Good turnout Chris! Got to give it to the French though.....they know how to protest! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 They have been announcing those tests for Portugal for years now, it’s been coming “next year” for 3 or 4 now. Suposedly it’s 2022... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 So do you not have the equivalent of our MOT in France or Portugal ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 40 minutes ago, boboneleg said: So do you not have the equivalent of our MOT in France or Portugal ? For cars, we have an equivalent, for bikes not yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooN Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 4 hours ago, boboneleg said: So do you not have the equivalent of our MOT in France or Portugal ? In France no MOT for motorcycles (yet) MOT for cars every 2 years and you have to have one les than 6 months old to sell a car. Commercial light vehicles ( like our works vans, not HGV's it's every year, but overy other year it's just a pollution check not a full control. Cost for a car is about 80€ currently. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Spain is 1 year for cars and 6 months for vans (€35), 2 years for bikes (€30). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooN Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share Posted April 12, 2021 On 11/04/2021 at 18:15, XTreme said: Spain is 1 year for cars and 6 months for vans (€35), 2 years for bikes (€30). I think that if it was likely to cost 30€ there would be less trouble... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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