paging frenchies

does the French law that came in last year requiring "all vehicles" to
carry a hi-viz jacket and a warning triangle apply to bikes, or are
they exempt as in civilised countries?

 

Pretty sure it doesn't apply to bikes.

 

I'm also "pretty sure", but just wondered if anyone had a reference to
official confirmation of same.

 

If the answer is "yes", does that mean you will actually take a hi-viz
& a triangle?

I wouldn't, but I'd take a copy of all my documents, just in case!

 

**** no. I might consider it in the car, but not on a bike.

good plan, though I don't actually have a copy of the V5 for the bike
yet...

Then again, I've never taken a copy of a V5 for any vehicle I've taken
onto the continent. Driving licence, probably[1], insurance details,
possibly.

[1] mainly because I keep the plastic bit of my licence in my wallet
all the time anyway.

 

Cycles and motorbike exempt:
http://www2.securiteroutiere.gouv.fr/vos-infos/presse/communiques/2-2008/
CP_14-04-08.html

 

OK - ta.

 

Exempt see 2nd para..

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/...os/presse/communiques/2-2008/CP_14-04-08.html

 

Haha. Are you actually considering carrying one?

 

2Fwww2.securiteroutiere.gouv.fr%2Fvos-infos%2Fpresse%2Fcommuniques%
2F2-2008%2FCP_14-04-08.html

Bloody little englander - go and learn frog then read the website in it's
native tongue. Des would.

 

**** no - just wondering. I only just noticed the legislation warning
when I was checking on the Eurotunnel site to see if I can get a
refund (I can't, though can transfer it theoretically to another date
within one year)

 

Des can **** off to Mecca on a bicycle for all I care.

 

http://www2.securiteroutiere.gouv.fr/vos-infos/presse/communiques/2-2008/CP_14-04-08.html

"this does not apply to motorised two-wheeled vehicles, motorised
three-wheelers and quads without fairings"

 

Don't be such a bender. It's only a bit of rain.

 

A fully-faired quad is a car, innit?

 

i thought it was a jet ski.

 

I didn't know he played bingo.

 

Only in the UK.

The in-laws have one of these fantastic little machines
http://www.secmavehicule.com/photos/08_options/009_350_av_an.html
which has a complete roof and doors, and which they trail behind their
motorhome and use for getting around while they leave the big thing on
a site. In the UK it has to be classed as a car, so is taxed
accordingly (around 120 quid, IIRC), but if it were french registered
it would be dealt with entirely differently, as quads are recognised
as not being cars, which may seem obvious but has clearly escaped UK
lawmakers.

 

Well that may well be the way of it, of course. I'm not sure, though,
if they're just classed the same as bikes by default or if they're
something different again.

 

I think you mean that fact that it could be classed as a car has totally
escaped the tax lawmakers in other countries.