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You think being on a motorcycle is bad. Try being on a bicycle.

Well reading BSH Mag report make me think if Labour get elected we might as well jump ship while our bikes are worth more than just scrap metal BMF Towing the line put another nail in a already three quarters closed coffin Again hope im wrong as not ready to guit by any mean does mag read these I wonder

Had a scary slide on a left hand bend this weekend. There is gravel in the middle of each lane on many bends from the road surfaces deteriorating. This is particularly bad in Wales.

Wouldn’t be seen dead on an electric bike No point Motorcycles are all about character ie sound and handling Unfortunately these wankers have no interest in this We are f***ed

Why government didn't start banning gas guzzling hight powered cars first is beyond me ? Less there was too much concerned on the types of demographics that own and run them?

What's wrong with hydrogen all their polocys are about control motorcycles are much cleaner than cars also far better for road ware all the best Digby

What about petrol generators.? Get an electric bike & charge it as you're riding it. Lol. It's not petrol powered, it's electric. Government are total prats with no idea of the struggle it can be to get to work. Leave the bikes as they are is my vote. :)

I may be coming into this with a warped view. It is insanity that the government think that they can force people's hands into going down the road of electrification. To me (This is just my opinion) I can see one clear answer, don't buy the new motorcycles and stick to the 2nd hand ones instead that are already on the market. Safe riding all.

The cost in emissions to mine and manufacturing batteries is far worse to the environment and there will not be enough copper mined and processed to keep up with to ev production let alone other uses of copper also what about Africa and Asia who have billions of motor bikes and can not afford ev bikes or cars how is the world going to solve this ???

Own nothing, do nothing, go nowhere...just work

Ban the car and the motor cycles but then ban all the Chinese imports the Chinese generate tons of carbon no more imports from china people will not work or do anything then the elctricity generated must be o omissions and thats a lie its all a lie half the planett does nothing about imisions england doesn't make any difference to the world imisions

What priority. What concerns. He never showed up to debate.

Don't get triggered. It's a scam that will make diesel look like small change. 2030 will be a bonanza for class actions.

It has nothing to do with climate change as the global temperature has very little if anything to do with CO2, the Sun, surprise surprise is the main driver of world temperature and if you want to talk at all about greenhouse gases, well water vapour has by far the biggest impact, so what's next a ban on taps? The whole thing is about completely changing the system into a system where the state controls everything. Personal transport is a mark of independence. They want a collectivist society, a modern version of feudal serfdom, where you are owned and have basically no rights For the UN the war was always against the individual, it is much easier to control a herd of people than have a system where people have individual rights. Provide a leader for the collectivist group who just parrots what you want. Also electricity is infinitely more controllable that ICE engines. climate change is just the big stick for bringing in the new system, a tool with an outcome rather than a reality. Eventually when everybody is off the road you will live in your 20 min ghettos where you will EXIST rather than LIVE until you die, with everything provided for you including your daily updates in brainwashing!

so how do cars hear as coming, there don't even see as now

I’ve ridden most of my 65 years and since the 80s the MAG have been an insipid useless bunch of wannabe middle managers. No Action whatsoever!

Unless I'm thoroughly mistaken, all parties are for the end of combustion engines... So I'm happy you're spreading this information and encouraging people to act, but what exactly do you foresee happening? Let's be realistic here, Politicians don't care about the minority of people that are bikers, that's not going to change in 6 weeks (regardless how loud we shout)... So aside from "this is crap", what are you trying to say?

We dont stop ,except for traffic lights,roundabouts,for a few seconds,minutes,n'so on,no static emmissions,as in traffic jams,so why ban us/restrict us,it can only be ignorance,jealousy,n'so on,from the infilctors of these things,avta try,n'keep trying

Why not simply replace these councilors, why not get people that are better informed and more realistic, to stand for councilor at the next election. We live in a democracy and they can be removed with the vote, so why not support someone who undestands things better and simply vote out those that are daft. I think we tend to complain a lot but do nothing about things, demonstrating and complaining often does very little, but if you get lots of like minded people together you can boot out the old worthless idiots and put in people who use sense. Anyone can stand, there are no barriers there are no fees to pay or costs to incur but people if you are not happy with these councillors they can be booted out but you need someone with a brain to stand, you don't want someone who is an activist type charging around like a bull in a china shop but you do need someone who uses sense. So Bath councillors if they are not doing the publics bidding, Mag and other orgs should get together with car groups and boot out those councillors if they are not happy with what they are doing, simples, that's democracy.

Well if they charge the same price then you should be entitled to the same amount of space therefore bikes would take up a car space rather than just a small space.

it doesn't matter whether it is driven by petrol, diesel or electric if you like to ride you like to ride. I also like riding electric bikes but the govt has almost killed that market off as well by limiting the vehicles capability to an almost useless state. Electric motorcycles can be very good, but the money offered to people to buy one by the govt as a trade in is not even close to that of a car, 10 grand will only get you a poor version of an electric motorcycle, you need to get up into the 20 grand mark to get something good and that's the problem, I could buy a brand new petrol bike and it would cost be a fraction of the price of a new electric bike. The only way around this is if the Chinese motorcycle market picks up for bigger bikes with rapid charging and good range, when that happens everyone will be asking what all the fuss was about, if they bring the bikes to the UK at a reasonable price. I think the traditional Japanese motorcycle market is on the way out, just like the British motorcycle market faded out price quality and performance, once the Chinese market take these aspects on and dominate the market we will all be wondering what all the fuss was about.

There is not reason why electric motorcycles couldn't fast charge, other than the companies that make them simply don't put in fast chargers.

I actually like riding an electric motorcycle they are so good it's unbelievable. The one main problem they have is range, fix the range issue and they are really nice to ride. I have first generation electric motorcycle it's quite old, but the range sucks big time the battery is shot now but once I can afford a new battery it will be back on the road. The ride is so smooth there is very little noise it's an excellent bike even though it's old. But as I said the range sucks, better battery tech would solve this but that comes at a cost. Personally I have no issue with the swap over to electric so long as they fix the range issues which is basically better batteries. Oh and charge rate they charge way too slow.

Global unelected communism has taken hold of the West

Hi Why have none of the motoring organisations spoken out on behalf of the motorists. Why is the motorist the target for emissions reduction when nothing is being done about domestic and industrial energy usage Why is nothing being done about air travel the most polluting transport system of all Thanks good informative vid

I've made a video about 2035 a week or so ago. Much the same points as MAG but with one difference, I've ridden an EV motorcycle. Does this change my mind? NO. We must stop the forced change to EVs. The electric bikes are great but it should be personal choice. Whilst I can't do anything about this, MAG is at the table every day. Where is the protest ride around the M25 MAG? It's been 30+ years since you had an impact, don't fail now, get it DONE.

I think it's the risk of spontaneous combustion what frightens me the most

There's always been an element of it but I never thought I'd live to see our country become a dictatorship. Same shit, just choose a different narrator. Red team or Blue team? In practically every aspect or our lives, we're being rogered more than a coppers radio

Vote Reform. Closest you'll find to common sense.

Well I ain't buying one

Well the weak and the ill informed beleave that our 0.75 percent of the worlds CO2 will make a difference that of course if i believe that CO2 Is the problem which with all the reading on the subject i do not I think for what its worth as the 2025 to 2030 bikes die so will motorcycling in The UK With so little numbers as not to be realistic for companys to import hope im wrong

I'd start by banning high performance car that drink way too much petrol! I bet government wouldn't do this as certain demographics would no doubt complain big time. But on the other hand banning these types or cars might make motorcycle riding much safer! Just a thought?

Motorcycling will continue and if that is electric it won't be the kind of Motorcycling we want. The bigger issue, for the government at least, will be the impact of pricing cars off the road. If we cannot afford an electric vehicle and our old exsisting cars (and motorcycles) become too expensive to use, we will reduce travel. Now that might be appealing to government, but if far more people start working from home, doing just 1 shopping trip a week or month, what does that do to shops? We saw some of that during Covid. What happens to tourism, leisure and what happens when people can't travel more than 5 miles to work? EVs could cripple our economy in it's current model. We need to drastically reduce our use of carbon fuel from non renewable sources, we need to start asking the government what their plan is for transport and how realistic it is, who's paying for it, what they think our society and economy are going to look like. Because at them moment they only seem to be looking at emissions from road vehicles. We need to get them to see switching to genuinely carbon neutral is the way we need to go and digging carbon up for electricity is no better than digging it up for road fuel.

Blinkered insanity from the government they will bring the country to a halt with people stuck in the middle of nowhere with run out batteries from over priced useless vehicles.

Governments come and go. WE vote them in and out. They're made up of ordinary people, not some special separate breed. This needs to be kept foremost in our collective minds. This requires us to vote with our brain, not so much our heart. That said, I'm unconvinced that government hasn't as much effect as we all think it does, in the final outcome. Certainly, the various schemes to encourage people to leave fossil fuelled transport in favour of electrically driven versions are more than mere vote winners, they are also driven by the unfortunate side effects our technology thus far regarding energy sources, is having on planetary climate change. We're past the theory stage, the unreliable speculation stage, the wretched stuff is happening. Fortunately we live in a relatively free society, so market forces will largely dictate how trends pan out. A rarely considered, yet extremely important piece of data, are the profit/loss graphics of a functioning business model. With our transference, due to it's far cheaper outlay and vastly cheaper output, into 'green' energy generation (wind, solar, wave, etc), we are beginning to discover that we need no longer be at the behest of foreign oil suppliers (apparently we sold our own supplies to the highest bidders, not to ourselves). This is following what is described as an 'S' curve (graphically) and we're at the acceleration up-curve at the moment (which means current estimates following a straight-line projection are deceiving). So, what's my long-winded point? The oil industry pricing model depends upon a sufficient demand, or turnover, so to speak. Currently there are still enough fossil-fuelled vehicles to make the business model function positively, but the financial tides are flowing in the wrong direction. As heavy users, like cars and lorries, perhaps heating oil use, etc, are replaced by electrically powered versions (yup, batteries are getting cheaper and cheaper, containing more and more electrons in every kilo, and can now easily outlast the vehicle they're fitted to) the fixed costs of running refineries are going to become an ever larger percentage of each litre we purchase. So, up goes the relative price. Then we'll get refineries closing down, just as the coal mines did. I'm sure a version of petrol and diesel will always be available, but I'm also sure that it'll become like early electric car charging stations, vanishingly rare and blooming expensive. Perhaps we'll end up going back to buying it from chemists shops in cans, just as early motorists did? My point is that economics are going to be the biggest factor, not short-lived and often ill-informed governments. Buy the bike you dreamed of, now, while you can. Electric motorcycles are still (unlike cars) very much urban only options. They're too heavy for most mortals to push around or hold upright when at traffic lights. Their range is frankly pathetic, even now, if you ride them like you do your petrol powered version. Whoever the next government are, they're irrelevant when it comes to this particular issue. Let us concentrate, instead, upon keeping the few rights and freedoms we still enjoy when riding motorcycles. If they were invented today, they'd be banned before they turned a wheel, but thank goodness they've been around longer than any of us. Tackled correctly, we need to ensure our rider's rights will still apply when fully self-driving cars (the UK has already given them the tacit go-ahead once their efficacy has been established) begins to replace trained human drivers. Doubtless they'll be safe, probably safer than the idiots currently trying to kill us at every opportunity, but that very principle could lead to our present entitlements being stripped from us on 'safety' grounds! Electric motorcycles will eventually come. They'll be better than what we ride now, and we'll love them just as much but for different reasons. Perhaps the very fact they won't be noisy will tempt a whole new generation of actually YOUNG people back onto two wheels? We will be too old to care, well I certainly will, and so will most of you readers. Time and technology moves on. Embrace it. Don't fear it.

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Electric vehicles can be controlled remotely

What are we going to do, do we do nothing?

This is really a covert move by government who's real intention is to get rid of all types of motorcycle completely.

We as Bikers have a small voice. We need to unite with other petrol heads such as hot rodders, classic car owners and kit car builders and the like. Strength in numbers

You still fail to highlight the problems with infrastructure. How many vehicles will be electric in 2030/35? Where will the chargers be? How can a terraced house have a charger? How do people who live in high rise buildings charge their vehicles. How do we stop private companies screwing us for charging? What happens at busy times when dozens of vehicles need charging in the same place? How do electric long distant lorries even exist? How do we get a fully electrified train network? How do we electrify a fishing fleet? A cargo fleet? A navy? The Army? Air force? Passenger air flights? Who supplies the rare ingredients to make batteries and how are our relations with them? How long will they last? How will millions of batteries be recycled. How many people will be able to afford to replace batteries. How many vehicles will be scrapped well before their sell by dates? Where are the new power stations coming from? How long will it take? Where is the power capacity ? How will electrification affect our economy compared to multi fuel companies? It is a shit show!!! There is no joined up thinking whatsoever. The country is virtually bankrupt. All this will cost Trillions, not billions of pounds. AND half the world will be laughing all the way as we sink into oblivion.

This is not about climate change. This is about the restriction of freedom. I can’t wait until the first election campaigner knocks on my door and asks for my vote. The first question will be how do you hope to raise £64 BILLION pounds a year in lost revenue for fuel duty and vat. Has anyone actually costed this insanity?

I think as many it will be the end take into consideration how much we emit we should have a choice

what's next ? compulsory fire proof suits for when they catch fire eh!! oh my!! TOTAL SMEGHEAD GOVERNMENT. nuff said!!

The car/van EV mandates 15:57 situation is far from going well. Sales are falling - except for fleet buyers, and there's no way manufacturers will meet their obligation for 20% EV sales this year. I can't see them loading £15k onto each ice car over the 80% figure. Equally, I can't see them discounting EV prices to help reach targets. Ford, VW and others are already rowing back on their EV commitments because the market is stalling. The bottom line is, as stated by a transport minister 3 years ago - Personal transport is SO last century. They want us plebs out of our cars and off our motorcycles. It's buses and trains, so long as you live in a town or city, lol. We'll own nowt an' be 'appy, ffs. Unless more people wake up and push back, of course.

I really think some of you need to educate yourself. Stop being NIMBYs and start looking at the science behind the move. You say that you are speaking for all motorcycles but you are not speaking for me. I have already discovered the advantages of using battery electric lawn mowers, chainsaws and outboard motors and unlike a lot of you I’m not scared about moving to electric road vehicles. Having driven an electric car I’m actually looking forward to getting one. My next dual sport motorcycle will definitely be electric as the advantages outweigh the disadvantages by a long way.

Well electric vehicles still aren't a viable option, especially where I live. I might have to purchase a horse seeing as we're all going backwards. For one tone of l,ion you need 16 tons of diesel.🤪

The plan is to kill motorcycling obviously and drastically reduce the number of cars on the road. Only the rich will have this freedom and that includes our MP's who dont ever give a toss for average joe public

Electric vehicles are crap!Any way global warming is a lie end of moan. Human beings breath out emissions and politicians talk shit. They must have had a very bad childhood.

Seems to me that if Motorcycling is to survive beyond ICE, we need to align with other road users facing the same bleak outlook. We are a minority, and most muggles wouldn't give a hoot if bikes were swept away. Petrolheads across the board are fuming at the ban of ICE. Electric vehicles are NOT the solution, neither is trampling over people's freedom of choice. Humanity is the ape that harnesses technology, so rather than just leaping for the first uncertain half-cocked solution we need to work toward a REAL technological answer. Sequestration of carbon from the atmosphere is progressing and should be taken much more seriously for our future, particularly as we all want to live our lives freely.