Motorcycle licensing according to MAG

[Rogerborg]

https://www.mag-uk.org/network/2015-06-Steps_to_your_motorbike_licence.pdf

[arry]

Have Mag been taken over by Ride magazine?

[Copycat73]

They are riddled with back biting and stabbing with financial Armageddon looming close at hand.. whilst agreeing with what you say its no surprise that they have taken their eye off the ball really...
They have had no monies from me ;indirectly or otherwise; for over 2 years.
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[NJD]

Had my heart going thinking the money I'd just put down for my A2 had been wasted

Quote = law/rules pre January 2013?

Pre 2013 licensing sounds a whole lot cheaper and easier, I assume someone saw the potential £ signs and made it a whole lot more complicated for that reason?

[arry]

[NJD]

[Rogerborg]

[almostthere]

Were these EU rulings just advisory/voluntary so that the southern europeans can just give these rulings the big finger whilst our numbskull politicians assume they are mandatory and therefore a big money spinner
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[Rogerborg]

No, they're a mandatory Directive. We went above and beyond what was required, of course. Apocryphally, the hot countries have historically just laughed it off and been handed down fines in the region of 100K Euros, which is a fraction of what we've spent on mod 1 centres.

That said, it looks like Spain and Italy at least have implemented something like the required slow speed manoeuvres. Beyond that, they can still hand out licenses like sweeties.
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[WD Forte]

[Rogerborg]

In principle, sure.

In practise, how are you going to book the tests? Other countries don't translate everything into Elbonian (or even English) for the convenience of sponging migrants either.

Anyway, good news, you can now get a full license on a 125 again - just ask MAG for more details.
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[TheSmiler]

[thx1138]

thread explains some "correction" / "errata" type e-mail I got from MAG today

still on their e-mailing list despite not being a member anymore

[Matt B]

[Llama-Farmer]

MAG are just a pointless waste of members monies.

But the EU is an atrocious farce of nonsense. They have a lot of meddling going on in a lot of areas, but the general gist is that they're trying to set EU-wide standardisation, to bring the civilised sensible western EU countries in line with the laissez-faire eastern ones whose attitude to things can be somewhat "shit happens".


Unfortunately they had the rather flawed idea that instead of an EU-wide minimum standard, they were going to have EU-wide mandatory regs that were not flexible, which meant countries with stricter safety regulations were going to be forced to significantly relax those regs so everyone was doing the same rules.

Eventually after about 5 years of campaigning someone in Europe saw a bit of sense and this has changed and now it is back to the more-logical minimum standard, with individual countries able to keep their existing, stricter regs.



The EU is good in theory, but in practice they have too much power, not enough intelligence and exceptionally little common sense.
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[Rogerborg]

Yehbut...

[thx1138]

MAG are more farcical than Dads Army

[cheeseman]

[arry]

They're not campaigning against or for anything at the moment as far as I can tell

But they are keen to inform on their FB page that the Govt is 'removing unnecessary burden on drivers' by scrapping counterparts. Yay go MAG

[cheeseman]

[Rogerborg]

Seems to be armadillos at the moment.

[The Wobbly Orange]

Hey they are right on the money!.........in 2005
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[Val]

Now I understand why they need Nigel Farage - MAG lives in the past.
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