100bhp Power Limit!

I'm with the Squidster on this one - it keeps lurching zombielike into the light every now and again, only to be shot down. If I recall correctly, it hinders bike sales in France because they can hop over the border to full-power Germany and get the bikes unneutered due to the common market rules anyway, so there probably isn't even the statistical data to back the motion.

Still, good to see my MAG membership isn't being wasted - hadn't heard anything from them for a while.

It's virtually unenforcable.. it would cost too much to implement a law stating "all bikes must be governed down". Who would agree to restrict their bike out of their own pocket?? I wouldn't... I'd tell them to go and sod off..Bike sales across the EU would nose dive, and dealers would be forced to close due to lack of business.. You can buy a full power bike outside of France, and import it into France as a personal import at full power, and they can't touch you.. CAP rules...

Doesn't make economic sense.. If you're gonna threaten to cap the bikes, then cap all the cars to the same 100bhp... The car makers would squeal NO.... Proposal dropped like that...

Plus who's saying you can't buy a programmable ECU?? Download a full power map, and away you go...

[the_lone_wolf]

Funny how although it's only France that has the ridiculous power limit, to "harmonise" across Europe it's every other country that has to alter it's perfectly reasonable time tested rules...

How about they pull down their stripey undercrackers, go shove a garlic clove up their arses and harmonise by removing the limit in Baguette Land...

[timwilky]

My French boss bought his latest blade in Germany, I wonder why. and the one before that in the UK.

100hp may not be required on the road, fair comment. People always apply this thinking to going as fast as possible, why? Are we all elitist mad arsed hooners? I like having 150+HP on tap. It means I can perform lazy arsed overtakes without changing gear, it also means I can plod along in ANY gear I feel like without making the bike work and make a racket to get anywhere. On the other hand it means I can roll on at 100mph in 6th gear and vanish into the horizon.

Anyway its the same old toss spouted by the same moronic 'journalism' that is the bike equivalent of the Sunday Sport on a quiet week. Best way to avoid such things is to not buy Mostly Conjectured Nonsense any more.

[jamesterror]

I understand the car arguement but the power to weight ratio could be their perspective of it.

[Dave20046]

On the plus side It's a cleverer idea than restricted younger riders, with everything to live for, to a power output that leaves them dangling in dangerous situations

yes ditch the 33bhp club and make it the 100bhp for 2 years for all riders after passing there test would be a better idea.

i'm quite happy with my 100bhp its more than enuf really.

Why do idiots keep reading f***ing MCN!!!?!??!!??!??!?!?

Jesus H Christ.