Motorcycles could soon go through the technical control box, from next year.
The European Union has published a directive which imposes periodic checks on scooters and motorcycles.
For their part, the bikers are strongly opposed to the idea of taking the exam.
What if from 2022, scooters and motorcycles had to pass the technical control?
This is what the European Union wants, which has published a directive imposing the examination on two-wheelers.
For bikers, it's no.
"Technical control: no racketeering", we can read on the windshield of Philippe's motorcycle, coordinator in the North of the FFMC, the French Federation of Angry Bikers.
"It is a totally ineffective measure as to the objective for which the technical control is requested, that is to say to reduce the accidentology", he denounces to Europe 1. There would be according to him almost no accident related to poor maintenance of a motorcycle.
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More expensive MOT for a motorcycle?
"Bikers are people who are conscientious and who have their motorcycles serviced regularly. When we get on the bike, we go around the front. We check the tire pressure, the oil level", explains to the microphone of Europe 1, Michel Vosinsky, member of the FFMC of Pas-de-Calais.
If this technical control comes into effect, its financial impact cannot be neglected, warn some users: "Bikers are not just bikers. They are also motorists, they are in fact multi-users. And not all bikers ride on gold ", explains Michel Vosinsky.
With few centers capable of giving a technical control to a motorcycle, the price of the latter could be higher than that of a car.
What to worry a little more the bikers who crisscross the roads of France.