Mmmmm, I love it....!!!!

[torytax]

don't forget to add petrol, extra insurance cost for european cover, motorway toll, overnight hotel, etc...and being in March it could be freezing or snowing...so you would need quite a lot more then just the £30 eurotunnel fees, it would be more apealing if it was a summer demo, comming from the U.K....

I think if these two fights are going on in the summer there could all sorts of unions, what fun for us, and no fun for Wastemonster.

[ldn1702]

I think if these two fights are going on in the summer there could all sorts of unions, what fun for us, and no fun for Wastemonster.

Yep, I'm more than happy to help organise joint demos with the French!

[torytax]

Yep, I'm more than happy to help organise joint demos with the French!

You any good at speaking French then? 

[kaychanc]

You any good at speaking French then? 

There was a TON of french schoolgirls walking past milbank on our last demo route.. they took fliers offa me!

[UK France bikers.com]

The FFMC is organising protests all over France on 13th March, it's not just happening in Paris. All French cities and towns will see bikers protesting at the same time, blocking the roads and causing traffic jams everywhere. They're not happy with not being allowed to filter through the traffic, so they're going to behave like cars, occupy each the space of a car, going at their speed and get stuck in traffic, like cars. This is a NATIONAL protest! The closest one to the UK I think would be in Bethunes where the meeting point is outside the council for those of you who fancy going. There's also a gathering in Lille at 2pm at the Grand Place.

Further details here: http://www.motomag.com/Manifs-moto-du-13-mars-ou-se.html

http://ukfrancebikers.com/

[1frog]

I hope the FFMC will succeed in getting this crazy law scrapped ! It would affect us too if any of us went riding to France. Not allowing bikes to filter is so anti bike ! WTF are the french trying to do ?

[MonkeyBoy]

Hats off to the French, their is a proposal to ban filtering and suddenly their are protests all over France

We get a parking tax introduced and made legal and yet STILL their are people who aren't interested or even think it is a good idea 

What is it they put in the French water and where can we get some??

[ldn1702]

Tomorrow, 13 March, is the day of the NATIONAL motorcyclists protest all over France, in 60 cities and towns. That's no doubt going to be spectacular. This evening, the French media are talking about it. It's just going to be complete chaos on the roads tomorrow everywhere in France!
I wish I was there, I love these things!

[Chas]

Good luck to our biker friends across the Channel tomorrow, lets hope it makes the news over here 

[UK France bikers.com]

Here's a post that hopefully will give you feel for what the French demos were like yesterday. They were enormous, 40,000 bikers in total!

The key point I would like to make is that not only did the bikers cause disruption overground as you will see on the pictures and in the video, but they also went down en masse into the Paris metro network and block an entire line! Why? Because the Government told them to take the tube if they were not happy, so they did just that! Disruption was caused overground and underground as a result

http://ukfrancebikers.com/2010/03/14/french-motorcyclists-more-angry-than-ever/

[torytax]

I'm jealous that the French have an established organisation like FFMC to be able to call up such a mass of bikes and can show some fight right from the start. Our established groups spend far too much time trying to talk, and play politics, less talk more action  

[Catwoman]

Hats off to the French 

If only we could get the same kind of support over here 

I wonder if they have their very own "femme de chat" providing cookies on their demos 

C.W.

[Ogri]

The footage is stunning, we can only shuffle our feet in embarrassment that our own motorcycling fraternity is so lacking in passion & commitment.

Letters of congratulations should be sent from the British motorcycle protest groups.

L'union fait la force  

[Chas]

I wouldnt say our motorcycle fraternity lack passion, i have just this minute returned from Wootan Bassett, where there was well in excess of 10000 bikes there from all over the country, showing support to the town and our troops....

[kawasaki]

there were 10 000 at reclaiming north wales we could do with a little help for MCN and have a ride to westminister

[woodstock521]

I wouldnt say our motorcycle fraternity lack passion, i have just this minute returned from Wootan Bassett, where there was well in excess of 10000 bikes there from all over the country, showing support to the town and our troops....

While I was on the runway one of the organisers said there was over 40,000 of us!

[ldn1702]

You are right Catwoman, surely there was something missing at the demos in France, that was your cookies! I suggest you go over next time, the French don't eat cookies as often as the Brits do so you will become La Reine des Chats.

[ldn1702]

I'm jealous that the French have an established organisation like FFMC to be able to call up such a mass of bikes and can show some fight right from the start. Our established groups spend far too much time trying to talk, and play politics, less talk more action 

The FFMC is extremely powerful in France. The Government is shitting in their pants every time the word FFMC is pronounced. They are very scared of the FFMC and every time a decision is made that affects bikers, the FFMC is consulted. On this occasion, I am told that the Government did consult the FFMC but didn't consider their opinion and suggestions in full, hence the national protest. The FFMC has been operating for 30 years and is extremely powerful. They fight against every piece of anti-bike legislation and keep talking to the Government about what they want.

With all respect, I think the BMF and MAG are nowhere near the FFMC. For example, this campaign should have been taken care of by the BMF or MAG, like the FFMC would have done.

[UK France bikers.com]

Hey guys, what's going on? We've had hundreds of readers to www.ukfrancebikers.com today! Hey, we didn't think that this French protest was going to be so popular as far as Australia and New Zealand!

[Chas]

While I was on the runway one of the organisers said there was over 40,000 of us!

Yes it seemed like it, when i arrived, fantastic day, thought all the villages turning out to clap us was brill