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City ban for older motorcycles
« on: July 20, 2015, 11:07:55 am »
Copied and pasted from Face Book  1950-1980 racing motorcycles

ACT NOW! (This means you!)

In case you didn't notice: The goddamn European Union is about to ban motorcycles older than 15 years from use in big cities all across Europe.

This affects over 50 percent of all bikers in Europe - including all owners of classic and vintage motorcycles!

Therefore we must ACT NOW: Please sign the attached petition against this hairraising assault on bikers' freedom to ride, too.

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/petition-gegen-das-verbot-von-mehr-als-5-jahre-alten-motorradern-in-europaischen-stadten
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Re: City ban for older motorcycles
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2015, 11:44:54 am »
It's a German proposal but already Italy and Greece have written that of . This to clear things a bit.
fm January we had this petition advertised to magazines and as far as I know all bikers have voted against it. Afraid that North Europeans are going to support  such a restrictions this is the feedback we get fm them via Internet. But let me ask you who is ridding a bike in Finland?
Thanks for posting it , we all must vote against.
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Re: City ban for older motorcycles
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2015, 12:07:17 pm »
It would help if they put the countries in alphabetical order!!
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Re: City ban for older motorcycles
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2015, 12:33:41 pm »
Sorry Ron, I don't sign petitions I can't read and I can't read German!

You could start a petition on change.org ( https://www.change.org ) or 38degrees ( https://home.38degrees.org.uk ) if this matters to you.

Brian (who thinks the government has better things to do but the Department for Gold-Plating European Edicts will have different ideas)
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Re: City ban for older motorcycles
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2015, 08:25:26 pm »
Depending on where they draw the boundary, that will kill the Ace Cafe...


Presumably the policy wonks will try the same the cars?
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Re: City ban for older motorcycles
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2015, 12:01:32 am »
Anything that tries to restrict our activities and freedoms needs to be voted against even if you have to find your way around the German language.
It applies to all EU cities so don't sit on your butts doing nothing.
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Re: City ban for older motorcycles
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2015, 12:57:07 am »
Quote from: drumwrecker on July 21, 2015, 12:01:32 am
Anything that tries to restrict our activities and freedoms needs to be voted against even if you have to find your way around the German language.
It applies to all EU cities so don't sit on your butts doing nothing.

...and if it means that much to you Ron, get off YOUR butt and start a UK campaign. The masses won't follow you and the German language even if I do. And I am not about to.

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Re: City ban for older motorcycles
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2015, 10:15:34 am »
Quote from: Phmode on July 21, 2015, 12:57:07 am
Quote from: drumwrecker on July 21, 2015, 12:01:32 am
Anything that tries to restrict our activities and freedoms needs to be voted against even if you have to find your way around the German language.
It applies to all EU cities so don't sit on your butts doing nothing.

...and if it means that much to you Ron, get off YOUR butt and start a UK campaign. The masses won't follow you and the German language even if I do. And I am not about to.

Brian (who won't struggle with the German language because his grandfather and father gave parts of their anatomy so that I, and you, don't have to)
But you have no problem riding German motorcycles?

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Re: City ban for older motorcycles
« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2015, 11:52:13 am »
I have lots of problems riding German motorcycles as this and the old site will attest.

I also drive a German car with which I have absolutely no problems, touch wood.

If I had to read or speak German to do so, I wouldn't. The same is obviously true of Japanese.

On a serious note, if anyone wants the membership of this site to sign up to a foreign petition, the least they should do is either to translate it into English, or, if they feel so strongly about it that they are pushing it here, where, if they are lucky they may get a few dozen signatures, then they should start a petition on one of the very successful, international sites I quoted, where the English language is an option and where they are virtually guaranteed to get hundreds of thousands of signatures. Simples!

Brian (who is allowed to have his little peccadilloes just like everyone else, in fact he has a box on the go beside him as he types  ;D )
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Re: City ban for older motorcycles
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2015, 11:56:15 am »
It was only an effort to alert us, at list this way I get it.  :P Then to much was added.
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Re: City ban for older motorcycles
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2015, 04:22:11 pm »
Oh my, I hope we are not getting all political. There are plenty of politically motivated forums out there, can we keep this one free of politics please.  >:( >:(   or
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Re: City ban for older motorcycles
« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2015, 07:32:46 pm »
Quote from: Phmode on July 20, 2015, 12:33:41 pm
Sorry Ron, I don't sign petitions I can't read and I can't read German!

You could start a petition on change.org ( https://www.change.org ) or 38degrees ( https://home.38degrees.org.uk ) if this matters to you.

Brian (who thinks the government has better things to do but the Department for Gold-Plating European Edicts will have different ideas)

Believe it or not that was the English version according to what is says at the top of the page.
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Re: City ban for older motorcycles
« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2015, 10:06:13 pm »
The headings were in English on the page the link took me to, but the text was all German.

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