The potential problem is legislation.

Step 1 the Europrats make TPMS mandatory and part of road worthiness inspections. Not a problem in itself and probably a step forward if we stop a few trucks and cars having blowouts next to us. Will they mandate it on bikes? Probably yes because one exception drives yeah-but arguments.

Step 2.

Dunaplop have made a deal to give Honda a million nasty Brazilian tyres every year, each wrapped in a fiver. Why? Because they need to shift this **** to make it worthwhile keeping the factory open, the factory that makes 50000 better tyres they sell in the aftermarket at 500% margin.

Now here's a wheeze, fit them with RFID tags and make the TPMS refuse to accept anything else. The Europrats know its for your own good, no nasty Chinese tat or nice new knobblies a size smaller that move you off the type approved one. The switch to 900% margin and free champagne at every Brussels sex orgy paid for by tyre makers, well, if they didn't someone else would.

What the bike lobby needs to campaign for is free access. Force the TPMS system to accept any tyre with at most a disclaimer to say you accept non-OE.

Without this there will be no more tyre choice and a pair of tyres will be priced in comparison to buying a new bike (or better still renting it with restricted mileage and no going abroad).

Hopefully the UK follows the US where this access is enshrined in law rather than the EU where manufacturers can freely buy commercially advantageous legislation.

Personally, I'm selling TPMS so win either way

Andy