Motorcycle Explorer February 2015 Issue 4 | Page 63

tschach I recognised a village where the Austrian police had stopped us in 2005. I was riding a Lambretta
pulled up a few miles earlier to find out if Sam – who was then aged three– wanted to get out of the
on with me for the last few miles to the campsite. Of course he did.
ed my enthusiasm for that chopper. Once an angry Dutch policeman told me that the massively extended
disagreed; they quite clearly were possible because they were holding my front wheel on. What he
ilding such an extreme vehicle would not be legal in Holland. I was perfectly aware of that, but the fact
h, and my chopper scooter was fully road legal in Britain. Therefore as an EU citizen I was perfectly entitled
his country, unless it failed to meet a specific rule of the highway, which it didn’t.
ch as we well knew because our scooter club organised a rally in Holland for over a decade. Their
ly conservative motoring laws that restrict perfectly harmless vehicle modifications, but at the same time
s on soft drugs and the sex industry. Let’s face it; tourists don’t go there for the skiing.