Technical inspection of motorcycles, scooters, carts and other quads becomes compulsory from Monday. Measure supposed to increase safety but contested by many motorcyclists.
20,000 people are preparing to demonstrate this weekend in Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Nevers and Tarbes. In Spain, since the introduction of technical inspection in 2006, mortality has fallen for moped drivers, but not among two-wheelers, according to the Spanish federation of motorcyclist's groups. The first vehicles to pass the inspection are those registered before January 1, 2017. All these L category vehicles must also pass the examination in the event of resale, helping to boost the second-hand market in the first quarter of 2024 (+6% over one year), according to insurer Solly Azar. The Federation of Angry Bikers (FFMC) continues to call for a boycott of this control which it considers expensive and useless, because it is mainly visual. It took ten years and numerous appeals to enforce this 2014 European directive, already implemented almost everywhere on the continent before the deadline.