Motorcycle license – Update on the new 2013 motorcycle license –

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Update on the new 2013 motorcycle license

Motorcycle license - Update on the new 2013 motorcycle license -

The new driving license will come into force from January 2013. Decree No. 2011-1475 of November 9, 2011 details a series of modifications made to license A, our dear motorcycle license. Update with Site.

The good old pink licenses – which were still tearing, even laminated … – will no longer be distributed at the end of next year! Their replacements will land in January 2013, in bank card format. They must be renewed every fifteen years for car and motorcycle licenses (5 years for heavy goods vehicles) in order in particular to update the holder’s identity photo and address..

The old license, good to throw away ?

Holders of a driver’s license prior to January 19, 2013 – there are 40 million in France – will be able to keep their "pink paper" for another twenty years. It is only in 2033 that the smart card will become compulsory for all. After this date, the valves on haircuts and other "winner’s heads" will be less tasty…

Let us note in passing that the holders of the precious sesame will have to pay "at least the cost of sending the new license", warned the Ministry of the Interior, perhaps even of the cost of the new support itself…

"The document will contain the driver’s fingerprints", also specifies the ministry,"as well as a chip that will allow traffic fines to be paid online or to connect to the website of the Ministry of the Interior for, for example (but it’s really an example "like that" to illustrate, Editor’s note), consult your points balance more quickly and conveniently than at present"(read).

Honey, there’s no more pink paper ?!

"Thanks to this device, in the event of a control, the police will be able, using readers placed in their vehicles, to ensure that the document presented is not falsified. In the same way, it will have access to the history of the driver who should no longer be able to escape payment of the PV, including in a country other than the one of which he is a national.". Gone are therefore the incessant and murderous sessions of" handle in the corner "at our neighbors….

Still within the framework of European harmonization, the motorcycle license is undergoing some specific changes. It should be noted, however, that the license commonly called "125" remains and will remain named license "A1" in 2013.

The motorcycle school puzzle

"The vehicles used for the skills and behavior tests must meet the minimum criteria listed below. Member States may lay down more stringent requirements for these criteria or add others", provides for European Directive 2006/126 / EC.

Category A1: Category A1 motorcycle without side-car, with a minimum cylinder capacity of 120 cc and capable of reaching a speed of at least 90 km / h

Category A2: Motorcycle without side-car, with a minimum displacement of 400 cc and a power of at least 25 kW.

  • MNC Note: The Ninja 250R and CBR250R are therefore excluded … although they would have perfectly suited in this role of intermediate learning motorcycle !

Category A: Motorcycle without side-car, with a minimum displacement of 600 cc and a power of at least 40 kW…

  • MNC Note: Could this be the end of the 4-legged motorcycle school, the Honda CBF600 or Yamaha XJ6 cubing only 599 cc? Damn no: "the legislator will provide a margin of five cubic centimeters", warns ACEM. Too bad for Kawasaki and Suzuki, who were already preparing to deliver their ER-6 and Gladius to the instructors. !

As expected, a real intermediate license is created in order to make progressive access to large engines. Cleverly named "A2", it fits between the A1 and the A.

Nothing very complicated however since it takes in broad outline the formula "34 horses" of the current French license, namely that it is accessible from 18 years and limits the driving of motorcycles to the power not exceeding 35 kilowatts, or 47.5 horsepower (and not more than 0.2 kW / kg either, because you mustn’t mess around either).

The examinations for this new motorcycle license will include – like the others – "a theoretical test and a practical test which will take place under the conditions and according to the methods set by order of the Minister responsible for road safety".

After two years, the lucky holder of the A2 license will be able to obtain the A license – the real one! – by following a simple (?) "training provided by an approved establishment or association", thus avoiding to go through the box" practical test ".

As a reminder in France, the passage of the "34 ch license" to that of "106 ch" is currently done automatically….

Should we rail against the abandonment of this scale – practical and free! – dictated by this new license? Not necessarily, since the arrival of this new "harmonized" license could at the same time lead to the end of the "horseless" law (read). Case to follow…

As for motorcycle enthusiasts who have not passed the A2 license, they will have to wait until they are 24 years old (three years older than today) to apply directly for the A license..

Finally, the road safety certificate (BSR) currently necessary for children to drive the cyclo of their dreams changes name and becomes the "AM" license. To get it, you will have to be 14 years old, have passed a road traffic test (that of the 5th grade class in France) and followed a seven-hour training course in a driving school..

Motorcycle license categories in 2013

Category A1:

  • Motorcycles with or without sidecar, of a maximum cylinder capacity of 125 cc, of a power not exceeding 11 kilowatts and whose power / weight ratio does not exceed 0.1 kilowatt per kilogram

  • Motor tricycles with a maximum power of 15 kilowatts.

Category A2:

  • Motorcycles with or without sidecar of a power not exceeding 35 kilowatts and whose power / weight ratio does not exceed 0.2 kilowatt per kilogram. Power cannot result from restraining a vehicle developing more than twice its power.
  • MNC Note: In other words, motorcycles developing more than 70 kW of origin (ie 95.1 hp) cannot be delivered with a 35 kW "clamping kit". This data undoubtedly led to confusion between power and displacement on the part of AFP: its dispatch – taken up by a good number of generalist newspapers – indicated a maximum limit set at 600 cc. But in the texts this is not the case. In practice, however, it is true that many 600 – which easily output 100 hp – will be excluded from this category..

Category A:

  • Motorcycles with or without sidecar

  • Motor tricycles with an output exceeding 15 kilowatts.
  • MNC Note: Contrary to what this formulation might suggest, the B license will allow you to drive motor tricycles of the Piaggio MP3 LT type (read).

Finally, the AM license concerns mopeds: two or three-wheeled vehicles having a maximum speed by construction not exceeding 45 km / h.

Matthieu BRETILLE – Photos (M) DR

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