HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT FRENCH BIKER ARE DOING? 40,000

[bigblackjet]

I came across this and holy shit 40,000 bikers acting across the whole of France, badly shaming the UK riders in one day.

https://ukfrancebikers.com/

At least 40,000 bikers brought France to a complete standstill all day yesterday (23rd October 2010) in protest at the proposed introduction of a compulsory annual test for motorcycles and the continued ban imposed by the French authorities on traffic filtering or lane splitting.

The MOT issue is relevant because motorcycle condition is known to be a total irrelevant as it the least likely cause of a crash, so the creation of the massively expensive infrastructure to will serve no purpose other than making a lot of cash for the French government.

[Carvel]

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/fartlojunior/stop_posting.jpg
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[bigblackjet]

thats the great thing about the internet,

people from all over the place can talk about stuff that interests them,

and dull/lazy/uninterested people can bitch on the side lines as much as they like, whilst those who are interested can continue talking.

oOH BY THE WAY I GUESS YOU HAVE LOOKED AT THE NAME OF THIS WEBSITE.???

BIKE CHAT FORUMS...

GEEE, I WOUNDER WHAT PEOPLE EXPEXCT TO FIND ON A SITE WITH THAT NAME??

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE SUBJECT,

DON'T CLICK OPEN.

[SamJL]

The thing is, the protest in France was for something people actually care about, not some bullshit parking charges that no body cares about.
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[Digitalize]

yeah but its france, they regularly bring themselves to a stand still without the need of a protest
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[Astridax]

I am going to stick my neck on the line and actually say I found the bigblackjet's post quite interesting, including the site he linked. I did not think it was spam and thought the reaction of Carvel was unnecessarily harsh.

Granted bigblackjet's response wasn't the best, but he has a point. This is a forum to talk about bikes and the general news that surrounds them. It is in biking news section, and the linked article is about a piece of biking news and therefore not 'off topic'.

Carvel, just because you find it uninteresting or boring is no reason to be abusive.

[Paxovasa]

[blurredman]

Why are they blaming us? If they did it for any and every motorised vehicle from the start then there would be no problem now
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[Carvel]

[Astridax]

I understand that you guys may not like the original poster but that is no reason to be abusive about what him when he posts something useful, that's all I was getting at. Besides people can change and the main thing I was getting angry about is the way Carvel dismissed what he had to say off hand as being spam before even reading it. I am sorry if I upset people, but it's not my fault if I don't know a forum members back history and I don't really expect to be treated badly when I make a point, whether you agree with it or not.

[Paxovasa]

I was only trying to explain why BBJ's post was deemed as spam

He may well raise some good points, but they get lost in his continued posts / threads about NTBPT.
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[G]

At what point do you start changing the way you react to someone that cries wolf?

As for being 'treated badly', I find it useful to have a thick enough skin that a generic jpeg doesn't offend too much - useful for this forum, never mind the rest of the internet. Doubly so if you jump in to someone else's fight.

[Carvel]

[Astridax]

That is sound advice G and some I will try to follow from now on. I'm only that difficult when I am defending somebody else, usually things like that brush off m .

[nubdismate]

I dont no guys, Ive missed the plot but after all this bitching about each other, there doesn't seem to be anything on here actually telling you what the french have done.

[t101]

this is very weak. hating on the guy and dismissing his post cos you dont like what he's said about ntbpt...

you will be the first to start crying when the EU decide to ban filtering and impose a yearly test over here so maybe you should take it on board instead of moaning about something thats not even in this thread.

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[Paxovasa]

[daemonoid]

[Rogerborg]

FEMA article.

Just more EU bullshit. 2 years is too far apart to have any impact on safety - any actually effective regime would be based on mileage, not time.

I'd hope that even Brussels could draw up legislation that says "at least every 2 years" and "beginning no later than 4 years after first registration", but they're perfectly capable of cocking it up and stopping us from keeping our annual MOTs.

By the way, apparently we've been caught having fun, and you know how the EU can't allow that. Come 2017, all new bikes will have to come with tamper-proof ECUs and exhaust bolts, mandatory ABS (or linked brakes on 125s and 50s), On Board Diagnostics, and to have to meet Euro 5 emissions (bikes are currently on Euro 3) including a high mileage retest.

So expect the number of bikes available to drop (Royal Enfield must be bricking themselves), and prices to rise. Plus ça change.

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[bazza]

[Hyaon]

Let me take this opportunity to say;

Potatos. *runs off into the distance of a ever falling red and orange sunset which goes on into prolonged minutes*



Pointless is as pointless does.