Front page of todays Daily Telegraph

Government to ban ICE motorcycles from 2040

Well it had to come eventually. Don’t think it will have an impact on me. :slightly_frowning_face:

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So that’s my last NEW bike at age 85 then. :thinking:
Oh well, I’ll have to make do with a used one after that. :cry:

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It’s a Telegraph headline about something years away. Move along. Nothing to see here.

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No worries.
Motogp will be in its 14th year running 100% synthetic fuel.
We’ll all be down the allotment (with still in shed) growing our bio fuel.
And Greta will be a middle aged housewife picking up her kids from (special needs) school in her Range Rover.
:rofl:

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The full article.

By then all new cars will be autonomous and driving as such will be obsolete so not surprising really.

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A whopping half percent of carbon emissions! That will make all the difference :thinking:

Originally it was cars in 2030 and bikes in 2035. They put cars back 5 years to 2035, so they’ve now done the same with bikes.

Still plenty of time for further delays :slightly_smiling_face:

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Any announcements of future intentions by the current UK government in its last few weeks/months of existence can’t really be given much weight. Who knows what a future government may decide?

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Bet you’d need a permit for a push iron in 2040 and all shagging will be done by machines without any human input too