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I was also informed by a usually knowledgeable someone that the stripes should slope towards the overtaking side i.e. top right to bottom left on the continent.
Nothing about aluminium, plastic, carbon fibre or gold plated.
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Nothing about aluminium, plastic, carbon fibre or gold plated.
And from the AA, Other rules/requirements in Italy and San Marino:
Any vehicle with an overhanging load (e.g. carrying bicycle at rear) must display a fully reflectorised square panel 50cm x 50cm which is red and white diagonally striped, a fine may be imposed if the sign is not displayed. This also applies to vehicles such as cars/caravans carrying bicycles at the rear
I'm fairly sure the stripes on my Fiamma board are not reflective.
Fine for the EU may be true, but only required in Spain and Italy was my understanding and seems to be the consensus here?
Does anyone know how far something has to protrude before one is required? My spare tyre sits on a protruding rear bumper with lights built in, the tyre protrudes maybe 100mm and I have a board because of that. It would be nice to know if I really need one though!
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I am sure that you should have a reflective board on the rear of your load if you have cycles or similar that protrude beyond the rear of your vehicle in certain countries.
The contentious bit is whether the plastic Fiamma board is legal in Italy. Our understanding, after asking at an Italian motorhome dealers, was that the board must be reflective. We had a plastic board with non-reflecting stripes but 4 circular reflectors, one at each corner. We had used it for many years, never been questionned and had seen many straightforward boards with no reflectors at all.
When the board became tatty we replaced it with the aluminium one. With all due respect to the Italian police, we were not convinced that, one day, as we were passing, they might just decide to have a purge on motorhomers who had not got the all-singing board with reflective stripes, not just reflective roundels. I'd rather pay the extra £15 and be convinced I'm legal than be on the wrong end of a semantic argument with an Italian policeman.
Does anyone know if this is the law in France, we had a cycle rack fitted to the back of our motorhome but I wasn't aware we had to have something like this, at the moment it would only be France that would concern us if anyone knows please
Does anyone know if this is the law in France, we had a cycle rack fitted to the back of our motorhome but I wasn't aware we had to have something like this, at the moment it would only be France that would concern us if anyone knows please
Not a legal requirement in France. A lot of us use them as good practice.
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