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Adelaide Motorcycle Festival 2010

29th November 2009

All Routes Lead To The King’s Hall – Belfast For Ireland’s Biggest Motorcycle Festival In 2010. Welcome to our press launch for the 2010 Motorcycle Festival which will run for three days Friday 12 to Sunday 14 February under the title of “The Adelaide Motorcycle Festival” at the King’s Hall, Belfast. This promises to be […]

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Global Motorcycling – Global Safety

27th November 2009

The First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety – Time for Action – took place in Moscow, on the 19th – 20th November supported by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility and the FIA Foundation. Welcoming participants to the conference the Interior Minister of Russian Federation, General of the […]

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No To The Bike Parking Tax

24th November 2009

Right to Ride is backing the “No To The Bike Parking Tax” campaign. The campaign is a non-political action group representing motorcyclists and scooterists who object to illegitimate introduction of parking levies by Westminster City Council and any other authorities. As the “No To The Bike Parking Tax” campaign says: “We must consider the far-wider […]

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Risk and Motorcycles

16th November 2009

Risk and Motorcycles – Dammed If We Do – Dammed If We Don’t! Right To Ride has published a report on “Risk and Motorcycles”, it is a critique of a report published by the Scottish Executive in 2006 entitled “Risk and Motorcyclists in Scotland”. Right To Rides’ Elaine Hardy says, “the authors of the Scottish […]

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“A Survey You Can’t Miss”

13th November 2009

David Neely writes in his “On Two Wheels” column in the Belfast Telegraph regarding the Right To Ride Near Miss Survey. David says about near misses, “if you have been riding for any length of time”, or “if you’ve been on a bikes for more years than you remember, you’ll have had more near misses […]

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RoSPA Information Nights

10th November 2009

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents’ advanced drivers and riders network is expanding in Northern Ireland, with prospective tutors and group members invited to two information nights to find out more. Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service’s (NIFRS’s) Road Rescue Team will be demonstrating its skills at the two events, which will be […]

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Diesel Spills

1st November 2009

Right To Ride reports that due to the efforts of the KillSpills anti-diesel spill campaign, the Department for Transport (DfT) is to undertake a two-year study into the problem of diesel spillages and the most effective way of cleaning them up. Although in Northern Ireland the Department for Regional Development (DRD) through the Roads Service […]

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