Repelled for a long time, the technical control of motorcycles is ultimately a success. Cyclists who inaugurated technical control in 2024 had a 10% counter-visite rate, compared to 20% on average for motorists, professionals in the sector announced on Wednesday, January 29.
This technical control hated for a long time by cyclist associations asked for boycott, was finally established in 2024. With almost a million checks carried out at the end of 2024, including almost 80% of motorcycles, “” did not find a boycott, but a success, a success. “said Joël Sanseigne, representative of technical control within the mobiles of the Professional Federation.
Only 20% of the expected vehicles did not appear in control, according to mobile phones. In addition, cyclists had a 9.44% counter-visite rate, compared to 20% for cars on average, trying to prove that they treat their machine.
“Cyclists are still good students, but the faults observed are often related to security (smooth tires, brake problems, direction),” Karine Bonnet tempered for the Dekra network.
In addition, “the control as implemented at the moment is essentially visual, at all at all in what we know in the automobile world,” said Laurent Palmier of the SGS group.
The noise level of the vehicles was not yet controlled and will be since March 1, 2025 to punish in particular the illegal exhaust pots.
Less well kept scooters than motorcycles
The scooters were planned much more poorly maintained and had a 20%counter-visite rate. Cars without a license for their part were not in a sum of 15%.
The new controls in category L vehicles (motorcycles, scooters and cars without a license) worried in 2024 vehicles are put into circulation before 2017. In 2025, they refer to the vehicles recorded in 2017, 2018 and 2019, as well as those those They will do the issue of a sale.
In force for a long time in many European countries, the technical control of this category of vehicles aims to improve its safety, but also limit its pollution.
The speed control of vehicles without a license (limited to 45 km/h) was postponed on March 1, 2026, according to a decree published Wednesday in the official magazine, to allow the centers to be equated with the expensive equipment of control and possibly the pool to them.
Source: BFM TV
