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If you like freebie bike mags...

RichT4 · Champion

Interesting mag Brian - thanks.

I hope JT doesn't read the MOT article, he'll be on the next plane to pastures new...
I must admit the more silly proposed Euro nonsense I read about the more I hope for an early release from this euro state we seem to be in. I was chatting to a Swiss guy on my last trip and I couldn't believe how locked down they are there - all work has to be carried out buy a shop. He has to ride over the boarder to his mates house in France to work on his own bike!

Simmo · Expert

RichT4 wrote:
He has to ride over the boarder to his mates house in France to work on his own bike!

So he has to ride into the EU to modify his bike!? Switzerland isn't in the EU......

The fact is that he chooses to do so. Very few outlawed/over-regulated activities are actually physically impossible but it may be less hassle to refrain from doing them.

RichT4 · Champion

Simmo wrote:
So he has to ride intothe EU to modify his bike!? Switzerland isn't in the EU......
The fact is that he chooses to do so. Very few outlawed/over-regulated activities are actually physically impossible but it may be less hassle to refrain from doing them.

Yes, he does.

I never said Switzerland was in the EU. biggrin I was just using that as an example of how bad things can get when a country goes OTT.

The reason he does this is that he lives close to enough to the boarder to nip over it when he needs too, and his flat has open parking under the flats - basically anyone could see him working on his bike and could report him, had he access to a closed garage I'm sure he would just work in there to be away from prying eyes..

jt · Powermonger!!

Not stupid them Swiss....

jt · Powermonger!!

Just read this bit in the article....

Luckily theres a German
company, DEKRA, ready to
step in to the breach and offer
tests. Unbelievably, its the
same company that provided
research identifying 8% of all
bike injury accidents are due
to component failure and the
very reason for this regulation.

That explains it then - had to be money driven, remind me again who was it that won the war disbelief Bloody Europe hmm

Simmo · Expert

RichT4 wrote:
I never said Switzerland was in the EU.

I didn't say you did.

Basically all a lot of fuss over nothing. Just carry on living your lives and forget about it. You'll all join the BNP or UKIP next!

I sat in a pub the other night listening to people talk passionately about why Chris Moyles should not leave the Radio1 breakfast show. As if I give a Fuc*, who cares? Hardly solving malaria or cancer is it? Not important, move on.

Just because there be may regulations it doesn't mean you have to follow them.

RichT4 · Champion

It's nice picture you paint Simmo, and another name for it is apathy. It's the main tool politicians use to shaft us.
Let these silly proposals come through and it could be years before they get overturned, much easier to nip them in the bud early.