I am with Rasher on this one.
Do correspondents to French forums spend time worrying that it is illegal in the UK to ride with a dark visor that does not permit at least X amount of light through? Do British riders worry about the same thing or do they just ignore it?
Do French bikers hesitate to come to Britain as they have heard from a mate's mate down the Bar du Sport, that it's the law that you must wear so much protective clothing when riding a motorbike in England? "Merde", they say "C'est une infringemont du mon droits!"
Do British riders worry that it's illegal through most European countries to ride a motorcycle whose decibel output through the vehicle's exhaust exceeds by X % the figure shown in on their V5 and / or stamped into the vehicle's 'Type approval' plate? But they do it anyway, on the grounds that their bike doesn't sound right if they don't and it's only manufactured that way to comply with some wanky EU dictat dreamed up by some git in Bruxelles who they didn't vote for.
Do British bikers spend hours chewing their nails that it's illegal in the UK to ride around with a number plate that does not comply exactly to certain very specific specifications on colour, size, shape and spacing of numbers and / or letters? Do they spend sleepless nights, tossing and turning, that their number plate, instead of featuring the post code of the manufacturer, says 'My other rides got tits'? Or do they turn a blind inwards eye, on the grounds that ROG3R or TOS5ER on a cut down, badly spaced plate makes a statement about them, establishing their uniqueness?
Do all riders spend every minute of their waking day anxious that it is most definitely against the law to exceed very clearly defined speed limits, but they do it anyway; particularly in France, "Where the roads are awesome mate, no cars and the feckers pull over. They love bikers". Of course the answer to that one, is that they only start really worrying about it after they have been caught and possibly prosecuted, as witnessed by the number of threads that start 'I have been flashed, will I get a NIP?"
