EU law will improve motorbikes, insists Tory MEP.

Claims that a new EU law will “suppress” the freedom of motorbike riders is “complete nonsense”, says a senior Conservative. Malcolm Harbour chairs the committee in the European Parliament which has been examining plans for a new EU law to deal with motorbike safety. Some two hundred bikers, mainly from the UK, have been protesting in Brussels. They claim that the plans would stop bikers being able to modify and improve their bikes, ruining their hobby and mode of transport. But Conservative, Malcolm Harbour, says politicians have listened to bikers view and the new law will make bikes better and safer.