I'm apathetic about these things & action groups are generally hypersensitive to any change. However, these latest EU proposal if approved sound very onerous!


25th September- EU HANDS OFF BIKING- ACTION NOW!

The list of start points for the day of action continues to grow and are now on the MAG website and in a new national facebook page, but just as a reminder of what the day is: Biking as we know and love it is under threat from proposals working their way through the legislative process:

- New Regulations to PREVENT riders modifying any part of a bikes' powertrain, from air filter to rear tyre size
- Random road-side stop checks to TARGET motorcycles
- Future MoT tests to CONTROL non-standard parts
- Compulsory ABS, adding cost and complexity (especially to small machines)
- New rider numbers halved after the number of bike test centres SLASHED
- From Jan 2013 there will be EVEN MORE restrictions on new riders
- Ireland wants riders and passengers to be forced to wear hi-viz full sleeve jackets
- France wants hi-viz/reflective clothing, but also wants to BAN bikes over 7 years old from cities

Talking to politicians is important, but it isn't enough on its own. It's time to show the UK Government and its representatives in Europe that we want them to roll back the tide of interference in biking, not add to it.

What better way to fight the slow strangulation of UK biking than by symbolically and simultaneously strangling the nation's arteries in a co-ordinated action; its motorways and dual carraigeways?

It won't take long to make our point at a steady 45-48mph, so join us for a sedate Sunday lunchtime social ride with all your mates.

Gathering from noon at selected service areas, we roll at 1pm using the inside lanes, all over the country at exactly the same time, melting away after about 15 miles. Our strength is in unity.

For details of a start point near you, see the MAG website http://www.mag-uk.org/en/campaignsdetail/a6883
or the Sept 25th facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/25th-Sep ... 4361530962

I ask all of you who have started individual local event facebook pages, to please highlight the national one, so that everyone realises it's a co-ordinated MAG day, and so that riders can see that there is probably a start point convenient to just about everyone. In 48 hours, 1000 riders found and liked the '25th Sept Action Now- EU hands off biking'.

It's going to be a big one!
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Kind regards

Paddy Tyson

Wow that's horrible. I know in America they are proposing similar nonsense regarding cars (making modifications illegal and getting a choke-hold over the aftermarket industry). If they succeed of course bikes will be next. How in the world are you suppose to stimulate the economy by killing off one of the most popular industries on Earth? When I get out of the military I was actually considering moving to Europe to get away from all the American political idiots but it's looking like I can't escape

Your FB link is broke...