People are winding people up.
Imminent trip - what is mandatory ?
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People are winding people up.
It doesn't apply to LEDs
Don't think it is anymore Greg.
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Just to set your mind at rest…
Helmet reflectors for France?
Hi, do we still need helmet reflectors for France? My old helmets have them but I've read that it is no longer enforced, like a lot of French laws it seems (Breathalysers for example) If we do, anyone know who sells them? Nothing on Ebay Thanks
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Breathalysers are still required under French law. But unlikely to be enforced.
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Perfect!
there is no penalty for NOT having them, so not enforced at all
I have one of those dongle token things for the Peage toll in France, sorted via their UK payment system. It makes life simple.
I fucking hate faffing around with gloves/change/notes/tickets whilst Jean-Pierre and the Lithuanian truckers queue up and curse behind me.
I fucking hate faffing around with gloves/change/notes/tickets whilst Jean-Pierre and the Lithuanian truckers queue up and curse behind me.
The OP question is 'what is mandatory?' Breathalysers are mandated by French law.
What laws are enforced is a different question.
Have we mentioned Shit Air stickers (dependant on if you are travelling through any of the 11 Low Emission Zones in France)? The whole Shit Air thing is being ramped up over the course of this year. See: https://www.france.fr/en/holiday-prep/crit-air-anti-pollution-vehicle-sticker
Got my shit sticker - 2 of them lol
Fuli tag done
Surprised nobody has mentioned an adequate supply of Patum Peperium. And proper English tea bags. Plus some biscuits, the French don't make biscuits.
I also recently have one of these and absolutely brilliant bit of kit and was completely free to setup etc and took about a month after going through the tolls for the money to come out.
Highly recommend, especially if you intend to travel during wet days and zero faffing around
English mustard, too. None of that French muck!
The dongles fail the OP’s mandatory test. Good to have, of course, but not mandated. You’ll have Greg the Mandate, after you. He’s hot on the topic.
I also have severe doubts as to whether the dongles meet the approval of many ‘hard nut’ bikermates on this forum. They report that nothing gives them greater pleasure than slowly removing gloves, counting coins, paying as slowly as possible and re-gloving again, very slowly, the queue growing behind them. This, so we are told, is their unique form of protest at being ripped-off by the fucking French, to use a motorway. That they also pretend to the world that they never use a motorway, “Cos they is well shit, mate” is skirted over.
Remember to organise someone to feed the cat. The cat would consider that to be mandatory.
That law was cancelled in 2019
