Today My youngest son is doing his CBT, and the instructor said that: New rules which are active in Germany "all ready" are coming to the UK this year! and make any modifications to standard motorcycles "illegal" for which fines and penalties are already being issued in Germany, folks I'm Voting Out with vigour and so are the rest of my family, I don know if this has been discussed already! apologies if it has!?:surprise:
Interesting article thanks! I personally am suspicious that this is fuelled by the amount of people getting good results from HHO kits with ECU moderators, ie much higher MPG's unlike earlier attempts, plus outright bike haters, and gatherings of those kinds of adults that were the kids that could never stand to loose a game without inventing a new rule out of the blue, I know I should have smacked that boy harder at school.:nerd:
Yup, and it gets worse - you'll only be allowed to use the exact tyres that are entered in the bike's papers (ie the ones the bike manufacturer says fit), it's also a pain to use the exact same profile tyre but from a different manufacturer - you'll be forced to carry a copy of the tyre manufacturer's test certificate (endorsed by a national office of vehicle testing) that shows that they've been tested and approved for that particular motorcycle.
You can forget all your custom backends (unless they're approved by the Government's official approvers = costs a lot of cash), non-officially tested & approved light bulbs (forget LEDs unless they're produced by a German manufacturer and approved - funny how the foreign ones don't get approval) & fittings. You won't be allowed to modify the frame in any way whatsoever (it will lead to immediate de-registration of the bike and a trip to the scrapyard), welding anything onto the frame receives the same result, as does even polishing the manufacturer's welds.
Want to simply install another set of handlebars? Sure you can - as long as the new one has a test certificate and is approved for your make/model and you either pay the inspector to enter it into your bike's papers or it has an E-number and accompanying documentation that you have to carry with you.
If a bike has been in an accident, the frame will have to be measured by laser (at your expense of course) to prove that it's properly aligned and not bent, airbox modifications are absolutely VERBOTEN, and you'll also get de-registration.
Changed the front cog to alter your ratio? No no sonny, that's also not allowed.
And if you don't have all the papers (or the correct E-numbers on custom parts) on you when a cop stops you to check (I still get a slight chill down my spine when I hear a German cop asking "Papers Please"), then you'll get fined and if you can't produce them then it's off to inspection again.
Welcome to the real G̶e̶r̶m̶a̶n̶y̶ Europe.
Don't walk away, RUN!
On the plus side though you might get our bi-yearly tests (MOT) instead of yearly like you have over there. I don't reckon you'll get the Autobahn speed limits though!
Beings the thread hasn't been locked as I expected, I wonder how it is that a non elected governing body of bureaucrats in Europe can hold so much sway over an independent island.
Maybe the same way Washington bureaucrats can control the 50 states.
Money. Big business, behind the scene politics by a select few. Willingness by the many to allow the few to rule.
Something like "all pigs are equale, just some pigs are more equale than others". Close enough I think.
Best of luck to our English cousins. Learn German maybe?☺
Conversely, leaving the EU would, by this logic, give more power to our elected MPs and their paymasters. More power to Dave, Boris or Jeremy? That's not an appealing picture either. :smile2:
This whole idea that the EU is the only organisation to have non-elected bureaucrats dishing out the rules is crackers.
Britain is run by non-elected bureaucrats, a lot of them in London and called civil servants, and others in county offices and borough town halls.
We elect representatives to parliament and local councils. These people then lay down the rules that the executive officers put into practice.
Things get displeasing when the non-elected officials get too much freedom to interpret the rules, and do it in unfair or stupid ways, or when the elected officials don't review rules that have become outdated and no longer meet what the public, or more often the media, appears to demand.
The EU is simply a Europe-wide version of the same thing. The same failings of the elected representatives apply.
Possibly there is the added confusion that the public don't know whether a bad piece of legislation results from elected MEPs falling down on the job, or inter-country ministers' meetings failing to address issues.
Either way, you have to have unelected officials around at all levels. To bad-mouth that system is poppycock.
One example of what goes wrong if you insist on electing too many officials is the appalling corruption that sometimes results in the US when District Attorneys and Chiefs of Police are elected.
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