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Re: Bulbs in France
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 6:47 am
by johnnyboxer
Don’t forget your breathalyser too and a hi viz vest if you break down
Re: Bulbs in France
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 10:06 am
by Magnon
johnnyboxer wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 6:47 am
Don’t forget your breathalyser too and a hi viz vest if you break down
We broke down on a busy roundabout and even though we were there for less than 2 minutes glad we had our hi-viz.
Breathalysers are not required.
Re: Bulbs in France
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 12:57 pm
by Richard Simpson Mark II
IIRC they stopped being a requirement when stroppy French citizens started demanding that the Police who had stopped them blow into the bag too!
A lot of the cops tested positive after lunch. Red faces (and vino) all round!
Re: Bulbs in France
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 1:31 pm
by Steve398
92kk k100lt 193214 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 3:26 am
Going to France for many years and never been stopped/checked etc. I always have spare bulbs in the car or bike. I use a Richa Hiviz over jacket and that solves it.
But you will get done if you don't wear gloves! You can wear crocs, shorts, you name it. But you must have gloves.
Not just any gloves, you have to be wearing CE spec gloves!
Re: Bulbs in France
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 4:36 pm
by Spike941
Whilst we were having a jolly good telling off by a couple of motorcycle Gendarmes, pre covid, for wearing the wrong type of gloves, oh how we laughed as a youngster on a moped zoomed past wearing shorts and flip flops. I guess they spotted his CE approved mx gloves.
Re: Bulbs in France
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 7:39 pm
by AustinW
Spare bulbs….the way I see it my bike hasn’t got any bulbs** being all LED, Ergo there’s no spares to be carried.
** that’s assuming the French does say bulbs or whatever rather than something generic like “means of illumination”.
