Angry bikers get their message across to MEP (From Daily Echo)
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Angry bikers get their message across to MEP
2:26pm Friday 20th January 2012 in Travel
Angry bikers get their message across to MEP
ANGRY Hampshire bikers have met with a South East MEP ahead of a key EU vote on safety laws they believe threatens their way of life.
More than 100 bikers attended the motorcycle surgery jointly hosted by Peter Skinner MEP and the Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) in Crawley.
The European Parliament will vote in March 14 on whether to introduce laws requiring mandatory anti-lock brakes and curtailing bikers’ modifications.
Mr Skinner said: “The proposals as they stand are ill suited to the realities of biking and we have to work together to make that point to lawmakers in the UK and EU.”
MAG’s Paddy Tyson, said: “If riders don’t speak up, the politicians won’t be able to hear.”
Comments(2)
Fieldbean
says...
2:06pm Mon 23 Jan 12
Stillness wrote:I think parts of the legislation will actually aid safer riding. Stillness you are still on a day out at the track, with over crowded roads there does need to be safer handling of bikes.
Yeah, how am I supposed to be able to pull up at the lights without leaving a darkie or pulling a stoppie?
ABS on bikes should make for a positive experience. Although on gravel there there may well be issues with some riders. Having slid many times on gravel, it would suprise me if ABS could make that kind of incident any worse.
Stillness says...
3:22pm Fri 20 Jan 12