Electronic tagging for motorcycles (criminal or not)!!!

The BMF have highlighted in a press release today the DVLA (Driver Vehicle Licensing Authority) consultation document on the pros and cons of using EVI for motorcycles as a means of addressing both tax evasion and criminal activity.

So they suggest that motorcyclists alone should have their bikes tagged!! So are we more statistically likely to be criminals or avoid our road tax? Where do the ambitions of the surveillance state end?

Do you as a law abiding motorcyclist want to have your motorcycle electronically tagged so "Big Brother" can know your every movement when your on your motorcycle?

This proposal is a slur against all law-abiding motorcyclists and a gross infringement of our civil liberties, do you want to have your motorbike electronically tagged and hence you when your on it, just like a criminal?

I'm amazed that this can be be put forward as a sensible policy possibility.

How much money has been wasted on this idea so far? Money that would have been better spent on putting more policemen on the beat and back in patrol cars on our roads.

I urge all fellow motorcyclists to resist this proposal by backing the BMF, MAG and writing to your MP to object.

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Ride safe!

Jon Booth
Email: webmaster@inter-bike.co.uk
Blog: http://inter-bike.blogspot.com
Swicki: http://motorcycling-swicki.eurekster.com/

More great motorcycle book reviews by Ian Kerr on www.inter-bike.co.uk

Just a brief blog to tell you all I've just put up six more great motorcycle book reviews by Ian Kerr, they cover the following publications:

• The Modest Manxman by T.M. Sheard.
• Riding Man by Mark Gardiner
• The History of the Clubman's TT Races 1947 - 1956 by Fred Pidcock and Bill Snelling
• 100 Years of The Isle of Man TT by David Wright
• TT100 by MIck Duckworth
• Vincent and HRD Motorcycles by David Wright
  

All reviews can read from the home page of www.inter-bike.co.uk

Ride safe!

Jon Booth
Email: webmaster@inter-bike.co.uk
Blog: http://inter-bike.blogspot.com
Swicki: http://motorcycling-swicki.eurekster.com/

Kawasaki Versy road test

Versatile or not?

Read my latest road test of Kawasaki's new all-rounder the Versys with comprehensive picture slide show on www.inter-bike.co.uk by clicking here.

Its the mid range bike that thinks its a big bike!!

Ride safe!

Jon Booth
Email: webmaster@inter-bike.co.uk
Blog: http://inter-bike.blogspot.com
Swicki: http://motorcycling-swicki.eurekster.com/