Road safety – Retrofit: Euro1 and Euro2 motorcycles with ABS can also be unlocked –

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Retrofit: Euro1 and Euro2 motorcycles with ABS can also be unlocked

Road safety - Retrofit: Euro1 and Euro2 motorcycles with ABS can also be unlocked -

Since the DEVR1607462A decree of April 14, the retrofit (unclamping of motorcycles prior to the Euro4 standard) has finally come into action in France … with some three and a half months behind the official schedule ! Are concerned by this "release" all motorcycles equipped with ABS, whatever their generation..

Since the DEVR1607462A decree of April 14, the retrofit (unclamping of motorcycles prior to the Euro4 standard) … with some three and a half months behind the official schedule! This applies to all motorcycles equipped with ABS, whatever their generation. The bridle can therefore also jump on Euro1 and Euro2 motorcycles equipped with anti-lock brakes.

The CSIAM confirms it: all ABS motorcycles are unlockable

After having plunged into a careful reading of the finally signed by Segolène Royal, MNC realized the obvious: no restriction concerning the vintage of the motorcycles concerned by the retrofit is indicated in this document – moreover particularly indigestible. The only clearly specified obligation is the presence of ABS on the vehicle concerned by this reset to the original configuration (read).

In other words, contrary to what was, it is not only Euro3 homologated motorcycles (from 2007) with ABS that can now freely express their power above 100 hp, but also motorcycles of previous generations (Euro1 in 2000 and Euro 2 in 2004), provided they are equipped with an anti-lock brake system.

Contacted by Site, Thierry Archambault, deputy president of the International Chamber of the Automobile and Motorcycle Union (CSIAM), confirms the validity of this aspect which opens – a little – the field of possibilities: "the retrofit also applies to Euro 1 or 2 as long as the machine is equipped with an ABS ".

However, if this good news will delight the owners of motorcycles with "the bottle", it concerns in reality only a small part of the rolling stock, mainly road cars which were for a long time the only motorcycles with ABS exceeding 100 horses.. This is the case for example of the 126 hp, unchanged since 2002, and from 2003, when the 143 hp Yamaha received optional ABS.

In other categories, sports and roadsters in particular, Euro1 or Euro2 motorcycles equipped with ABS are much rarer … The generalization of anti-lock braking systems has indeed taken place from the middle and the end of the years. 2000, or more or less when the Euro3 standard was implemented in 2007. 

For the record, Honda was the first manufacturer to introduce ABS on super and hypersport bikes: it was in, with electronic C-ABS installed on them. In the process, Bosch launched an equally sophisticated but more compact and lightweight device, offered as an option by BMW on its .

THE FFMC opposed to compulsory ABS on "retrofitable" motorcycles

While some will appreciate being able to ride – legally – in full on their motorcycle equipped with ABS regardless of its vintage, this is not the case for the French Federation of Angry Bikers (FFMC), which considers the obligation to ABS useless and above all contrary to the free movement of goods in the European Union.

"To condition the authorization to circulate motorcycles of more than 100 hp to the presence of an original ABS amounts to establishing a link between power and braking, which does not make sense since the ABS is only triggered ‘at low speed ", assures the FFMC.

The association intends to bring this question to the European Commission, in order to verify whether France had the right to subject the jailbreak to the presence of ABS..

"The FFMC will very soon request the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (GROW) Directorate of the European Commission to ensure that this decree complies with Community rules", warns the biker association. To be continued on MNC: stay connected !

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