Glad I don't live in France

Aussie Ninja · Post by **Aussie Ninja** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:16 am

WTF!?!
http://www.motorcyclists-online.com/mot ... Fsb3RaT2x3

photomike666 · Post by **photomike666** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:40 am

If that kinda thing continues, we'll all become outlaws

Isn't discrimination against the law, with acts in the Euopean Union constitution? I already believe there is a certain amount of discrimination agains motorcycles in most places, and either all laws apply to us, or none do (not that I'm a rebel of any sort). Perhaps we'll end up like the modern day versions of Robin Hood - outlawed for riding overpowered and modified motorcycles. Almost Mad Max even. And no I won't stop riding my modified 175hp motorcycle

Smitty · Post by **Smitty** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:52 am

just wait til the bureaucrats in the EU in Brussels get into that....
no way can you have different laws in the EU
I reckon the frogs will get a rap over the knuckles for this
why?
well the first German(or Dutch or Italian) rider who goes into France and gets
a fine for having a modded bike...will scream blue murder
and being the EU..off to court and the rider will win

still....bloody stoopid I reckon

javaman · Post by **javaman** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:39 am

But I bet the french were laughing too when reading 'muffler tax' in NSW

... why... that one did not apply to cars as well

mfzx6r · Post by **mfzx6r** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:41 am

[quote="'muffler tax' in NSW

...[/quote]

wtf??

Frank · Post by **Frank** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:52 am

A friend of mine moved to Paris for work and took her 2001 GSXR750 with her, to get it registered she had to have it modded to only have 100bhp, she also said that they have mobile dynos, set up in the back of large transit type vans and can pull you over and check your bike on the side of the street. There are HUGE fines if you get caught and they can even take your bike !

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:59 pm

thats crap..guess we wont see too many French riders in GP or Sbk ne more??

MiG · Post by **MiG** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:18 pm

Neka79 wrote:thats crap..guess we wont see too many French riders in GP or Sbk ne more??

From what I've seen of car and bike racing drivers, they didn't learn on the road (Biaggi is an exception). A lot of the good ones learned by racing from a young age, rather than starting on the road.
But it certainly is a fucked up rule. Fuck I hate the world sometimes.

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:20 pm

yea thats true MiG... most start on pocket bikes or go carts...but theres the rare ones...

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:53 pm

mfzx6r wrote:[quote="'muffler tax' in NSW ...

wtf??[/quote]

About 4 or 5 years ago, some idiot bureacrats in NSW decided that aftermarket exhausts on motorcycles were too loud. So a law was passed that required every new motorcycle sold to have a dB rating on the muffler. The problem was, they made the law retrospective !!!

Of course, people who had newish bikes with slightly louder cans (eg YoshiRS3) were getting fined if they didn't have the correct 'dB' sticker on their muffler !

It was a huge joke. The coppers had noise-testing equipment and would issue a fine (I think it was $220 or something like that ??). This became known as the 'sticker' tax, or the 'muffler' tax.

The stupidity of making it restrospective was one thing, but some *stock* bikes (notably Harley's) did not meet the requirements from NEW, with stock OEM exhausts !!!

Needless to say, after some great lobbying by the MC Council of NSW, this law was repealed a year or 2 ago, and is no longer a problem......but there were cases of Qld and Vic regoe'd bikes who were legal in their own state, but illegal in NSW, and were issued fines ......

mike-s · Post by **mike-s** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:54 pm

and the wheels of stupidity roll forth.

TopCat · Post by **TopCat** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:26 pm

heres one of the French riders from the ZRXOA .... he's fuked