“Government Is Threatening To Make Modifying Any Motorcycle Illegal“

[Troy]

https://www.visordown.com/news/industry/government-threatening-make-modifying-any-motorcycle-illegal?fbclid=IwAR0qaFci27if54DLIreAzTrsVYorCis3sU0nwlNuz2c-brEju2hAise9Ty
 

Discuss….

Edited October 24, 2021 by Troy

[Bender]

2 minutes ago, Troy said:

https://www.visordown.com/news/industry/government-threatening-make-modifying-any-motorcycle-illegal?fbclid=IwAR0qaFci27if54DLIreAzTrsVYorCis3sU0nwlNuz2c-brEju2hAise9Ty
 

Discuss….

Already on here somewhere  

 

It's altering or defeating emissions based systems on motor vehicles including bikes. 

[Troy]

4 minutes ago, Bender said:

Already on here somewhere  

 

It's altering or defeating emissions based systems on motor vehicles including bikes. 

I thought it may of been, clearly I hadn’t looked hard enough.

Edited October 24, 2021 by Troy

[PaulCa]

Given the extremely elevated cost of OEM parts, this is, in effect a profiteering racket for the auto industry.

 

[Joe85]

And so begins the rise of imitation complaint exhausts/cats.

 

A shame really, because they’re hideous.

[PaulCa]

18 hours ago, Joe85 said:

A shame really, because they’re hideous.

 

I bought a brand new 2021, Euro 5 bike.  It has a silly lower belly fairing.  I wondered why you would cover up the engine and hide it.  Then I seen a picture of the front of the bike naked and ... nope.  Put that fairing back on, it is ugly under here.  

[fastbob]

Eh ? What ?

[fastbob]

[billy sugger]

When the cops pull him over his hands will already be in the air

[S-Westerly]

Is that thing even rideable?

[Bender]

18 minutes ago, fastbob said:

Are the tassels for when the arms get tired? 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

1 hour ago, fastbob said:

Well that should certainly be made illegal. 

[fastbob]

1 hour ago, S-Westerly said:

Is that thing even rideable?

Actually it is . 

 

[skyrider]

1 hour ago, fastbob said:

i bet he only makes it to the next bend before he has to rest his arms for half an hour (just not practical and neither are those silencers )

[fastbob]

7 minutes ago, skyrider said:

i bet he only makes it to the next bend before he has to rest his arms for half an hour (just not practical and neither are those silencers )

As anyone who has painted a ceiling will testify . 

[Six30]

1 hour ago, fastbob said:

 

Twat

[fastbob]

Yes , I'm inclined to agree . Here are some more sensible custom bikes without big handlebars 

 

Edited October 25, 2021 by fastbob

[Bender]

26 minutes ago, fastbob said:

Yes , I'm inclined to agree . Here are some more sensible custom bikes without big handlebars 

 

My eyes, make it stop........ 

[S-Westerly]

1 hour ago, fastbob said:

Yes , I'm inclined to agree . Here are some more sensible custom bikes without big handlebars 

 

Only in Murrica. Fortunately. 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

I'm on a Bobber forum based in the US. There's a definite pattern emerges.

 

Guy buys a Bobber. Triumph and other manufacturers sell a vast range of goodies to modify them, either slightly or massively. So they announce a program of modifications.

 

A few turn into HD look-a-likes. Not my taste but very well done.

 

Most get so called performance add-ons, especially decats and air box deletes.

 

Then two things nearly always happen. First there's post about it doesn't run so well. Second, after about a year all the bolt on bits start appearing in the 'For Sale' section and the bike gets quietly put back to standard.

 

It's a bit like fishing tackle sales, most of time most of the tackle sold only catches the sucker who thinks he needs it.

[DuRavary]

12 hours ago, fastbob said:

Yes , I'm inclined to agree . Here are some more sensible custom bikes without big handlebars 

That’s impressive,  somebody has managed to make the ugliest bike in the world even uglier. That must take real talent.