PBP 2015 / Paris - Brest - Paris Audax

Bike inspection takes about 5 seconds, from what I can remember it was just a check of 3 things:-

• Lights (do they look ok and they ask if you have a backup). I didn't even have batteries in mine at the time but mumbled something about "piles" to the French-only speaking volunteer and he was happy with this.
  
• No tri-bars
  
• You had something to comply with the French laws regarding Hi-Viz (the special PBP gilet you could buy from them to comply was excellent, mine is still put to good use). Since I hadn't collected mine yet they were happy seeing the registration page which showed I'd bought one.
  
  

Article 8 here: http://www.paris-brest-paris.org/index2.php?lang=en&cat=randonnee&page=reglement

One of the joys of PBP is that flashing rear LEDs are banned (lights that are capable of flashing aren't banned, you just should not use them in flashing mode only steady mode).