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We are spending 3 weeks in Europe travelling through France, Belguim, Germany, Switzerland and France.
Is there a legal requirement to show a ''marker-panel'' (red and white stripes) on the rear of the vehicle when carrying a rear mounted cycle rack, or will a warning triangle do!
I have seen many with and without.
I would like to keep myself legal, cos if ''it's'' gonna happen it will happen to me.
Your experience is the same as ours.
We also understood that in Italy the panel must be on Aluminium but we found a Garage in Italy selling plastic ones.
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Last edited by Grizzly on Wed May 05, 2010 7:44 pm; edited 1 time in total
We are spending 3 weeks in Europe travelling through France, Belguim, Germany, Switzerland and France.
Is there a legal requirement to show a ''marker-panel'' (red and white stripes) on the rear of the vehicle when carrying a rear mounted cycle rack, or will a warning triangle do!
I have seen many with and without.
I would like to keep myself legal, cos if ''it's'' gonna happen it will happen to me.
Many Thanks
Plastic ones OK for all EU countries except (Italy) at £6-50
Does anyone know the final answer not wishing to be synical all the people who sell the alluminium boards say you must have in Italy and they cost around 5 times the price of the other. Yet when I attempt to find the law referring to this cannot find anything.
Does anyone know the final answer not wishing to be synical all the people who sell the alluminium boards say you must have in Italy and they cost around 5 times the price of the other. Yet when I attempt to find the law referring to this cannot find anything.
Sorry grumpyman but I did have a link to the legal bit that you are after but I have lost it in computer changeovers.
The law related to which bits had to be reflective rather than the material i.e. it had to be reflective all over rather than in circles in the corners.
So I bought the legal one, went to Italy, and was the only person driving around with the real deal on the back. Everybody else had the non-legal type. I'm told it's an Italian thing.
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Does anyone know the final answer not wishing to be synical all the people who sell the alluminium boards say you must have in Italy and they cost around 5 times the price of the other. Yet when I attempt to find the law referring to this cannot find anything.
I've used the plastic one in Italy, no problems; but have found the details in the CC guide (in the Italy section - book2 p412) which states an ALUMINIUM panel, while the section for Spain says a panel (material not specified). I presume the CC have dug out the respective pieces of legislation to give this detail.
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