French motorcycle rules

Is it true that motorcyclists are required by French law to carry a spare
set of bulbs and a medical kit?
I keep hearing conflicting opinions on the subject.

 

If you drve a bit further to the south, Catalan police is requiring a spare
set of bulbs. Failure to have it is fined with 150 euros. They go to some
fine twisty area (say Lloret-Tossa) stop everybody and start collecting
money :-(

 

Domènec wrote in

Brunstrom has a Catalan cousin then.

 

Useful tip - thanks.

 

M&P sell set of bulbs for each bike - small money.

John

 

Newboy bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

Lightbulbs I believe that this is the case, but first aid kits, I don't
think so. I'm not even sure that cages in France are obliged to have
first aid kits. Mind you, I've never been asked to show them whenever
I've been stopped.

Mind you, cages are obliged to have a warning triangle and in Spain,
you officially need two (not so Domhnec?), but tourists get away with
one.

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Two warning triangles and a... er, English for "chaleco reflectante"?
Everything with the CE homologation stamp.

 

Domhnec bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

Reflective (HiVi) vest. HTH.

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Cab :^) - almost as fast as G.i.n.g.e.
GSX 1400 - 'Tarts Handbag' (tm) Bike, dead 550/4 Rat
UKRMMA#10 (KoTL), IbW#015, Bob#4, POTM#3

email addy : cab_at_ukrm_dot_org

 

No they're not.

I know that cars are supposed to have a set of bulbs, but I've never
heard this about bikes. I mean, where would you put them all, FFS?

That said, I do carry a spare headlamp bulb around (wedged next to the
toolkit, the duct tape, the chain lube and the, err, non-chain lube),
for my own convenience, like.

 

Thanks.

One of the nice things of reading UKRM is learning real life British English
(I've read too much technical stuff in American English over the last 15
years). Now if I flame in English I can proudly say "you ****"... thanks
UKRM! (my other source was the articles by Clink at "Streetfighters
magazine"... they should be studied here in English as a foreign language
subject)

 

UKRM in "has a use" shocker..

Phil

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Triumph Tiger 955i
"I'm training the bats who live in my cubicle
to juggle mushrooms"
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Ace bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the lines
of:

No doubt someone will pop up to let us know the exact article in the
Code de la route...

<G> No puncture repair kit?

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Cab :^) - almost as fast as G.i.n.g.e.
GSX 1400 - 'Tarts Handbag' (tm) Bike, dead 550/4 Rat
UKRMMA#10 (KoTL), IbW#015, Bob#4, POTM#3

email addy : cab_at_ukrm_dot_org

 

Not enough space.

I was bloody glad I had the duct tape when the bike got knocked over
last year. It was even a matching colour :0}

 

Those pesky foreign sports car drivers, eh?

 

Eh? Oh, no, the sports car (A-H Sprite, IIRC) was parked next to the
bike and took the brunt of the impact. The car that knocked it over
was a Renault or summat.

 

On 16 Jul 2004 03:01:15 -0700, TOG@toil,

LOL! TOG in top form.

Rowdy

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Unless they're very carefully packed, they won't last very long anyway
and be not a lot of use when they're needed.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Nowt wrong wi' a bit o' carbide in the tobacco tin. Piss in it for
nightime riding.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10