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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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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Stars Flying – Adelaide Awards

Superbike Stars Fly Home For Adelaide Awards Superbike stars Jonathan Rea and Eugene Laverty will both make a special flying visit back home in January to attend the Adelaide Motorbike Awards at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Belfast. Rea, who finished third in this year’s World Superbike Championship, will take a short break from pre-season […]

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More Wire Rope?

Northern Irelands Transport Minister Danny Kennedy – Department for Regional Development (DRD) – has announced the appointment of a contractor for the A26 dualling scheme which includes the section of the famous “Frosses Trees”. For riders will this see the fitting of wire-rope barrier restraint system along this new eight kilometre stretch of new dual […]

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Epiphany – On Facebook

On our Right To Ride EU Facebook page, one half of the “team” has just had an epiphany after driving in Italy on the Via Aurelia, (through San Remo) which is the main road going down the coast from France to Genoa. The other half at Right To Ride EU had no such epiphany, having […]

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Never Too Good

THINK! You’re never too good to be a better rider In September (2014) the Department for Transport (DfT) in Great Britain, launched the first of four videos (videos below) aimed at motorcyclists. The campaign launched through the government’s THINK! road safety campaign which encourages riders to undertake further training to improve their safety on the […]

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Project Velocity – A Need For Speed

If you put motorcycles and Northern Ireland together,  you’ll always find somebody who draws in people like moths to a candle, especially when racing on our roads or racetracks is involved. In Northern Ireland we like watching motorbikes speed, we have a passion for it! Project Velocity is a team based in Northern Ireland made […]

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Motorcycling Kicking Back

The Department of the Environment (DOE) has published the – ‘DOE Driver, Vehicle, Operator and Enforcement Statistics April to June 2014. While not a riveting bedtime read the department says that the, “official statistics show that the number of Driving Test applications submitted to the DVA during the period April to June 2014 was 14,230, […]

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