Road Safety Council: New change for bickers in 2016

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Flanging, wearing gloves, yellow vest in reflective tape, interfiles: what will change for bikers in 2016?

The year 2016 has just begun will mark many changes for motorcyclists. How to see clearer in the new regulations, and when?
Unpacking: with ABS … for new registrations as of January 1
Start with the symbolic end of the clamping motorcycles, awaited for over 30 years. Since November 20, 2012, date of the announcement by the European Parliament that it would no longer tolerate the French except for 100 horses bridle, we know that from the fateful date of 1 January 2016, motorcycles newly registered are no longer clamped. Here we are now, and in fact all the bikes that will now be imported to our territory will be in full possession of their power, but they will also be subject to the new Euro 4 standard, which imposes stricter rules pollution, and also imposes an ABS braking system. Concerning the retroactive unlock bikes already in the territory, otherwise called “retrofit”, nothing new since the draft order binding him to the ABS, which we mentioned last October.
Yellow vest: mandatory under the seat on January 1
As for the yellow vest, or rather retro reflective, it is not a matter for bikers to wear it all the time, but to own one “on them or in their vehicle storage (net, safe …) “and they will” wear down when their vehicle following an emergency stop in order to improve their visibility.”This decree, applicable from 1 January 2016 it was adopted shortly after the publication of figures Road Safety considered worrisome for two and three-wheeled motorized and published in the official newspaper of Sunday, May 10, 2015. They now join in that motorists, up must have  retro-reflective vest in the passenger compartment of their vehicle (and a warning triangle).
Wear gloves: a decree in preparation
While the possession (not compulsory wearing, it will be recalled) yellow vest is already choosy, mandatory wearing this time gloves for any user of two or three-wheel motor is in preparation Board of state. A decree should endorse this measure in the next few days (perhaps along retrofit …), which would only confirm a practice already widespread among bikers, since the gloves are already part of their basic equipment.
Interfile: Authorized in four regions as a test in February

As we have written a few days ago, experimenting with cross-traffic queues bikes finally enter into force on 1 February. A decree authorizing the movement of two wheels between two lines of cars under certain conditions appeared Saturday, December 26, 2015 in the Official Journal. 4 The designated test areas are Ile de France, Boucher du Rhône, Gironde and the Rhone, and this experiment, recommended at the end of 2013 by the Road Safety Council, scheduled to start on 1 February to extend over the next four years. To have the right to move files between two cars, biker, or three wheels with a width of one meter, and must roll “located between two lines of vehicles on the two most lane to the left of the road “, says the text.

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