Archives for August 2012

Adelaide Voted UK No. 1

Northern Ireland and Belfast based Adelaide Insurance Services have been voted the UK’s No.1 insurer for value for money, beating all the UK’s best known brands. Although Adelaide’s “business” is insurances services, for motorcycling they have been involved in supporting the police Bikesafe initiative and with other interested parties have formed the “Adelaide Advanced Motorcyclists” […]

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Supporters Events Coming Up!

There are a multitude of motorcycle events organised in Northern Ireland from rallies, runs, shows, charity events, track days, race events and much more. There are various lists of these events advertised on motorcycle websites, including our supporting clubs websites most of whom run their own events. We would encourage you to support their events. […]

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Conference Call

During the months of September and October Right To Ride will be travelling from our base in Northern Ireland to attend motorcycle conferences in Germany. In April 2012 Right To Ride’s Elaine Hardy published the “Northern Ireland Motorcycle Fatality Report 2012″ which is an in-depth study of 39 cases relating to 41 motorcycle fatalities in […]

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Testing Times

On 13th July, 2012 the European Commission published a proposal for mandatory Road Worthiness Testing (RWT). Included within that proposal the Commission called for European wide roadworthiness testing for motorcycles and scooters. There are eleven countries that do not include these vehicles within their testing regimes, in some other countries, scooters are not included and […]

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Finland On RWT

The Finnish riders’ organisation SMOTO is the latest European riders group to come out against the European Commission’s proposal for the mandatory introduction of Road Worthiness Testing (RWT) for motorcycles. On their own website SMOTO comment, “Studies have shown that the driver’s driving skills and driving behaviour explain the majority of motorcycle accidents. Roadworthiness testing […]

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BMF Comments on Right To Ride

In the latest BMF (British Motorcyclists Federation) members’ magazine – Motorcycle Rider,  Right To Ride is featured in a full page article. The article gives a run down on myself and Elaine and Right To Ride, with mention of our previous background in riders rights and our on-going work at Right To Ride www.righttoride.co.uk The […]

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Samaritans’ Motorcyclist

Sporting Stars ‘Revving up’ to welcome Samaritans’ motorcyclist – Tuesday 14th August 2012 As part of Samaritans’ annual awareness day 24:7, volunteers from Coleraine and District Branch are preparing for the arrival of David Exley, a Samaritans volunteer, who is motorcycling around the UK and Ireland to raise awareness of the charity. Ballymoney, being the […]

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Right To Report – RWT

Riders groups in the UK and the rest of Europe have started to make announcements concerning the European Commission’s proposal for periodic roadworthiness tests for motor vehicles and their trailers, which includes mandatory Road Worthiness Testing (RWT) for motorcycles. These announcements are in addition to those by the riders groups from Norway (NMCU), Sweden (SMC) […]

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Hein Gericke

Some of our readers may have heard the news that Hein Gericke UK is closing down. This includes the two shops here in Northern Ireland. The official notice on the Hein Gericke UK website in bold headlines says, “Closing Down – Everything Must Be Sold – Everything Reduced”, however on the same website it states, […]

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Save MANX GP Update

In a message received to day, we have been informed that the MGP petition is due to close on August 3rd 2012, with a thank you to everyone for their support. “Overall we are very close to 10,000 signatures including the paper version which has been circulated. Please make sure that anyone you know who […]

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