Archives for January 2014

Not All Bikes

It is not all motorcycles at the up and coming Adelaide Blackhorse Motorcycle Festival at the King’s Hall Pavilion on the 7th February – 8th February – 9th February 2014. Adding to the festival of motorcycles are the North of Ireland Karting Association (NIKA) who have announced that they will have a stand at the […]

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Rider Record – O’Reilly Stewart

O’REILLY STEWART SOLICITORS SUPPORTS RIGHT TO RIDE Right to Ride has teamed up with O’Reilly Stewart Solicitors to assist riders in obtaining early legal advice if involved in a motorcycle accident. Following its research, Right to Ride has found that most riders are unaware of how best to record accident details or what if any […]

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BMF Lobbyist Search

BMF begins search for new lobbyist BMF Government Relations Executive Chris Hodder is leaving at the end of March to join Rowan Public Affairs as Senior Public Affairs Manager. He will be working with Rowan MD Craig Carey-Clinch on Motor Cycle Industry Association (MCI) public policy issues and supporting the Rowan team in other areas. […]

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Amending the 3DLD Licence

January 2013 saw the introduction of a 3rd European Driving Licence Directive (3DLD). The EU rules introduced amongst other changes were measures claiming to make motorcycling safer as it would ensure that motorcyclists would gain access to more powerful motorcycles by means of experience and/or age. The directive imposed licence categories of minimum ages, especially […]

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No More "Tax" Disc?

You may be aware of the headlines going around in the motorcycle press that the “Tax Disc” on that we have to display on vehicles is to be withdrawn – that the system for road tax for VED is all set to go digital this year – checks by police from the DVLA records – […]

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Motorcycle Festival Launch

Right To Ride’s Trevor Baird attended the official launch of the Adelaide – Blackhorse Motorcycle Festival at the Ramanda Hotel Belfast  this morning. Not one to turn down an early morning breakfast Trevor munched his way though the launch, as we were welcomed by organiser Billy Nutt and with special star guests Alastair Seeley, Martin […]

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MEPs Back RWT

Earlier today the MEPs of the Transport and Tourism Committee (TRAN) backed an informal agreement on the Road Worthiness Testing package. Back in December we reported that the final compromise text was agreed by the Lithuanian Presidency and the European Parliament on the Roadworthiness legislative package, which consists of three legislative proposals aimed to upgrade […]

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Craigantlet A Vision Zero

Do you ride or drive through or over “Craiganlet”? This is a well known commuter route between Belfast – Dundonald – Bangor and is a much more pleasent ride via motorcycle than the main route of, dual carriage way and four lane road via Holywood. If you do then you might be interested in the […]

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RIDERSCAN – 3rd Survey

RIDERSCAN launches new survey on Intelligent Transport Systems and Motorcycling Safety FEMA (Federation of European Motorcyclists Associations) have launched the 3rd and last survey, which targets European motorcyclists through their involvement in the European Commission co-funded RIDERSCAN project. Partners to the project with FEMA, apart from the European Commission, are ACEM (motorcycle industry representatives in […]

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A Road Safety Emergency?

At the beginning of the New Year, only 13 days ago, we had started to prepare an article which was the result of discussions concerning the increase of motorcycle fatalities in 2013 compared to 2012. The article was entitled “The Long View” and looked at motorcycle fatalities from 2003 until 2013 in response to the […]

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