two strokes to be banned from the road, apparently

[andyscooter]

taken off some ones comments on the LML forum and facebook page

[doggone]

It's unusual for existing older vehicles to be banned but they might mean no more new ones will be allowed.
It's not as if there were loads farting about like in the 70s
I can't think when I last saw one.

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[Rob Fzs]

i doubt it.
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Hi

I would say unlikely, but possible. Very few rules have applied to previously registered private vehicles (one of the few is compulsory rear view mirrors in cars - which applied even to older cars which had never been fitted with one.). If it were done then it would almost certainly just apply to bikes not up to a certain standard for emissions (ie, certified to a standard) so would apply to pretty much any bike registered before a certain date, 2 stroke or 4 stroke.

All the best

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[Polarbear]

Time to buy that RD400 I keep dreaming of.

Honest Dear, they are going to be banned and I NEEEEED one now!

Will it work
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[Andy_Pagin]

Once the tree-huggers have run out of other things to get banned they'll probably turn their gaze to 2-strokes. Not motorcycles in particular but 2Ts in general. There aren't many 2T bikes around, but petrol lawnmowers, strimmers, chainsaws and so on? I suspect they produce a fair amount of pollution. 2T bikes will probably get caught up in a general ban on 2T engines.
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[Rogerborg]

Oh noes, an unconfirmed sixth hand anecdote! It's not even been officially denied.

The DVLA say a lot of things. They said to me that the new Eurobollocks should already apply to post-2013 designed bikes, but they're blithely ignoring it. They say that they're not aware of any problem with insurers and recording of license durations.

I'd ass-u-me that if there's any substance to it, that it just refers to emissions. I can't imagine 2 strokes getting through Euro 4 though, let alone Euro 5.
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[RhynoCZ]

I doubt it, but I can see some sort of a fee or tax to make road legal two strokes less desired by people. Just like the ''eco fee'' in CZE for cars. When you register a car that does not fulfil atleast with EURO IV, you pay a fee based on how green your car actually is. EURO III to EURO I to no EURO compliant vehicles. The EURO fee system is in effect since 2009. So if you owned a car that's not green enough before 2009 and then you sold it to someone else past the 2009, the new owner had to pay the fee. Luckily it is only a one time deal and the next owner won't have to pay, for now though.

The results? Many old cars just dissapeared from the roads as the fee was sometimes more than the car's value on the market and who buys cheap cars? People with no money, that would never be willing to pay extra what they've already paid to get the car registered.
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[Polarbear]

Now London is going eco with older cars/bikes not allowed because of emissions, I wonder if they are going to do anything about the thousands of canal boats in London the run on 20+ year old diesels that spew forth shit loads of pollutants
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[dydey90]

Are road legal two strokes even still going?
I'd like to know roughly how much pollution they kick out too, just for arguments sake. No point introducing anything for stuff over 125 due to the rarity, but there must still be a fair few Cagivas and Aprilias kicking around.
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[TbirdX]

My road legal two stroke is still going.

Maybe it's about air pollution killing non white people....
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[RhynoCZ]

There are still countries where two strokes like Jawa, CZ, MZ are very popular.
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