24-04-12, 12:00 PM
Quote:I think it's just for bikes registered after it becomes law.
Not quite true ... The French have approved a law banning all bikes older than 7 years from city centres on emission grounds but they haven't yet implemented it.
The power-train anti tamper rules make interesting politics and I think it goes like this:
Most Bikers are sensible, they play with their bikes and add 'bling' here and there because it makes them think they are going faster or riding a more desirable machine.
A small minority go OTT and add very loud cans and hoon about all over the place p*ssing off the general public.
In the process some of them kill and maim themselves in a spectacular fashion and others appear in court for doing 150 in a 30 limit.
The beurocrats react to what is a genuine road-safety and public nuisance issue by attempting to restrict freedoms when in fact they have enough laws already to solve the problem.
They just don't enforce them.
The result will be that you can't buy a 70HP bike and bling it to make 75HP but you CAN buy a 170HP bike and do 200MPH - which is clearly madness.
They should solve it by banning the "harm" and not "the suspected cause of the harm".
I'm all in favour of banning loud cans but I think they should do it by passing a law that says that no-one can emit more than X noise for more than 5 minutes.
That would catch the stupid leaf-blowers and t*sser builders with loud radios and the world would be a better place.
Reminds me of the scene from Woddy Allen's "Bananas" where they determine that everyone should wear clean underpants and that in order that the law can be policed everyone has to wear their underpants outside their trousers.