So. We are now required to purchase and apply a UK sticker (not GB, as was the norm) to our vehicles should we wish to visit our EU cousins to spend time and our money in their country.
As I was not averse to the GB sticker, I (despite questioning the lunacy of the change),
will not flout any laws or rules which may impinge on my motorcycling pleasure of D roads 'sur le continent'.
But, and you knew there would be a 'but', even with a slightly smaller motorcycle UK sticker, there seems to be no place to affix the aforementioned appendage to the rear of my V-Strom!
Yes, it will of course be fine on a top box, but I do not travel every day with one fitted. Perhaps I'll need to fix it to the back of my jacket and hope it doesn't blow off.
Also, and you knew there would be an 'also' as well, I have seen over this last weekend, vehicles, including motorcycles from Nederlands, Italy, France, Germany and Sweden driving happily on our roads without a care and without any kind of sticker displaying their country of origin. Not one!
Perhaps they know that our law enforcement is too busy elsewhere to worry about such a small detail, after all, you can generally see the country of origin on the number plate itself - oh, just like you can on GB (or UK) number plates.
Is this just another EU 'we must make them pay for their desertion', or have they purchased the world wide rights to be the only ones who can print and supply UK stickers?
What to do? Wave 2 fingers as we cruise along their roads and hope we don't get fined €1,000,000?
Or try our best to affix the sticker somehow alongside our GB/Union Flag labelled number plate as best we can???
