In same boat, but I commute daily to London Bridge, so I'm stuffed from this coming April. :-( Steeeve66: are you sure the FZS1000 is exempt from ULEZ? Thought it was too old, and only the FZ1 was good. I've been looking at just grabbing a cheap FZ6 S2, maybe an FZ8, or even a Honda CBF600, CB600F Hornet, or Suzuki SV650 k9. It'll be my commuter hack and weekend fun, so needs to be cheap to run, not too precious as it'll have the odd scrape in town, but still fun when off work.
As I understand it as a rough guide any bike registered before 1st July 2007 won't conform, and must be Euro 3 compliant. I thought I read that this was commencing on 8 April 2019, which seems to be very short notice.
I work in London on the underground at night and this could potentially cost me £300 a month.There are around 10,000 contractors in the same boat. Not to mention all the office cleaners, lift and escalator engineers, bus drivers and mechanics and anyone else who lives outside London and commutes in using their own vehicle.I would love to see London grind to a halt if we all boycotted the city for a week next April.
Especially galling when the study for allowing motorcycles to use Bus lanes revealed that we contribute 0.1% of the NOx in LondonP37, Section 5.1.2 - http://content.tfl.gov.uk/pt-emissions-study.pdf "Motorcycles and mopeds make a very low overall contribution to road traffic pollution because of the relatively low numbers in operation in London. They contribute around 0.1% of NOx emissions and 0.6% of PM10 emissions occurring in Greater London"