Tue, 12 May 1998 18:57:42 +0200
- Message No. 2980
From: Martin Franz
Subject: Re: Tyres - TUV certificate
Hi Vlada !
>
> I'm just curious. Some of you, mostly Austrian or German, write or ask
> if there is somebody who knows something about TUV certificate
> ('freigabe') for certain tyres.
For sake of completeness: here in austria, we also don't need this..
Micha wrote:
> The reason for this certificate is mainly a missing speed limit on german
> highways. In all other European countries you have this speed limit and so
> even if your AT runs 180km/h you are not officially allowed to ride so
> fast. This means that your tyres don"t have to stay this AT"s top speed.
Micha, my friend, this sounds like big nonsense :-))) Even in a land
with high mountains and a 130km/h speed limit, we definitly care, that
the max. speed of the vehicle is less than max. speed of your tire.
If the tire has an M&S sign (snow tires/some offroad tires), you just
need a "Max. Speed allowed: xxx" sticker in sight of the driver, if the
Vmax of your vehicle is above the Vmax of the tire.
In germany, even if the tire could stand the VMax speed of your bike,
you are not allowed to mount it, when it has no
"unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung" for your bike.
best regards, Martin from vienna

dipper@normans.isd.uni-stuttgart.de