06-02-13, 02:11 PM
(06-02-13, 12:50 PM)darrsi link Wrote: [quote author=packie link=topic=6180.msg56135#msg56135 date=1360139220]
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The SP Engineering can i have now has BSAU markings, a baffle, and at the first MOT i got an advisory for noise!!
I then pointed out the legal markings but he'd printed the MOT already so i had a year with an advisory notice on which the police could see on their system if they did an ANPR check on the bike!
Ye poor Brits!!....we Paddys don't have MOTs for the bikes, only for cars!
Sometimes having no money to implentent such things, and being backwards has its good points! :lol
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They've been talking about MOT's for bikes for a while now in Ireland, i don't reckon it'll be too far away?
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Ha Ha...that's about it....talking. They haven't the money to fill in a pot hole over here, let alone the resources to build or lease property to make it happen!!.
It's not like the UK here at all. Bikes make up a very very small population of road users over here, so it might be too costly to set up and run for the amount of bikes that would need MOTed. It probably would cost them money. I mean, ye guys over there have more bikes and bikes shops in London alone, than in all of Ireland here, I'd say!!
Then there is a manpower problem. My city is the 2nd largest in Ireland and they are about 4 small bike shops here with about 4-5 mechanics (1 in each shop on average)....and I don't even think they are qualified mechanics!! So they will have to pinch these unqualified people for the MOT centres...but how will we get our bikes serviced then as some of those shops will cease to function without the mechanics??