Archives for 2014

Island Trikers Street Level

A cold wet – chilly – day – but well worth it at the Belfast City Hall helping out the Island Trikers with their street collection – if only for the free hugs – as long as you put cash in the bucket – and great craic for the NI Cancer Fund for Children. The […]

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Tale Of Two Forums

Yesterday Right To Ride’s Trevor Baird attended a Road Safety Forum meeting at the Stormont Parliamentary Buildings. The forum is attended by a range of stakeholders representing road users, from the volunteer section to government and non-government agencies and a few others with an interest in road safety. The forum is chaired by Department of […]

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Bollards At Sainsburys

This may be the last post about the motorcycle parking bay at Sainsburys store on the Bangor Ring Road. The reason for this is because the parking bay has sorted out with the landlords of the retail park by fitting bollards to the bay. Since the store opened in 2011, the design of the motorcycle […]

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Ancestors Toy Run 2014

On what must have been the coldest – nithering – the sort of cold, biting, chilling wind, with some rain (read downpour) and sleet thrown in – day of the year so far, riders including myself, braved the winter weather warnings to attend the Ancestors MCC annual Christmas Toy Run. The annual run raises funds […]

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Health With Bikes

Last month we queried whether the ETSC – European Road Safety Transport Council – a European based safety body, had lost the plot. We did this because Antonio Avenoso, ETSC Executive Director had stated that, “Amidst the headlines surrounding the possibility of an outbreak of Ebola in Europe over the last few weeks, I can’t […]

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No Dosh For Road Safety

It would appear that there is no money left in the coffers of the DOE (Department of the Environment) for Road Safety or any money in fact for anything in Northern Ireland from Policing to Bus Services to Health because of the (without getting too involved), political impasse at Stormont! The DOE has launched a […]

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Project Velocity Event

Project Velocity the Northern Ireland based team of students studying mechanical engineering at Queen’s University Belfast who are aiming to break a 47 year old land speed record are holding a sponsorship event. The team are aiming for the summer of 2015 to travel to the Bonneville Salt Flats, USA to set a new land […]

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PB Motorcycles

PB Motorcycles is run by and owned by factory trained bike mechanic Paul Braiden. Based Co Antrim Paul offers everything from a basic service, through to full rebuilds, restoration work and custom builds, with painting & powder coating services. Paul also offers full top of the range diagnostics available for all modern bikes (Mobile diagnostics […]

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EU Motorcyclists Forum

Europe – The Federation of European Motorcyclists’ Associations has started to promote the “European Motorcyclists Forum” which will be held in Brussels – Belgium on the 2nd and 3rd February 2015. The forum will be hosted by the European Parliament members – MEPs – Inés Ayalá-Sender (S&D) – Spain, and Wim van de Camp (EPP) […]

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European Road Safety

FEMA – Federation of European Motorcyclists Associations – Speaks On European Road Safety FEMA’s latest press release informs us that it’s representatives have told the European Commission that there is no need is no need for a three stage licence system. The three stage licence system FEMA refers to is the implementation of the 3rd […]

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