VED & SORN

Did you know that in this years budget, delivered to the UK Parliament in March by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that an extra year of Vehicle Duty (VED) exemption was announced for classic vehicles? We didn’t! The announcement means that from April 2014, vehicles manufactured before January 1974 will join the exemption from the […]

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Muck – Debris – Farmers

In May 2012 we reported on a BBC article concerning the prosecution of a farmer who had been fined for allowing muck from his fields to be dragged onto roads in the Portrush area. The BBC report said that this was one of the first cases of its kind to come before the courts. The […]

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Belfast Motorcycle Parking

If you have been parking in Belfast last week, you may have had a questionnaire placed on your bike from Roads Service – Proposed Provision of Free On-Street Parking Facilities For Motorcycles. The survey is intended to access the parking needs of riders in Belfast with the hope to improve motorcycle parking facilities in Belfast […]

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Autonomous Driving

The Sarte Project (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), which we have only picked up details of recently, was a European Commission funded research into vehicle platoons. A vehicle platoon is a road train with vehicles, where vehicles are autonomously following a manually driven lead vehicle, driven by a professional driver. The project had seven […]

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Half Cocked on 20mph!

We have received a response to our article – Saying Plenty About 20. The response is from Gordon Finlay the campaign coordinator for the campaign, which is seeking to have a 20mph default speed limit where people live, without traffic calming on the Ards Peninsula. The campaign is part of a UK wide campaign. To […]

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Cast Iron Cover

At Right To Ride we have read through ‘many’ diverse articles about and associated with motorcycles, some which would drive you to drink! However it is a pleasure to have read through such an interesting, short and to the point article that was sent to us entitled “The Traditional Cast Iron Manhole Cover”. Cast Iron has […]

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Clean Them Roads!

A local rider from Co. Antrim contacted Right To Ride recently with a query about road works “a sea of mud” and a dirty bike. On his travels the rider had to follow diversions put in place between Ballyeaston and Ballynure because of the by-pass road works. The diversion route into Ballynure on the Lismenary […]

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Saying Plenty About 20

A local road safety campaigner has accused two “weekend motorcyclists” of exceeding 70mph in a County Down seaside village. The accusation, apart from being reported in a local newspaper, The Newtownards Chronicle & the Co. Down Observer, was also related to Right To Ride in a conversation with the local road safety campaigner, Portavogie resident […]

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More Bikes in Bus Lanes

As reported by the Department for Regional Development (DRD) on 26th April 2013, work has progressed with Belfast On The Move, a new northbound bus lane in operation on Great Victoria Street between Hope Street and Grosvenor Road. The bus lane is approximately 150 metres in length and will operate between 7am and 7pm Monday […]

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Preformed Markings NW200

Preformed Markings Assist NW200 Motorcycle Road Race Safety was the main topic when Preformed Markings assisted leading specialist highways contractor EMTEK in Northern Ireland, to provide anti-slip solutions to the many manhole covers that stretch along the NW200 Motorcycle Road Race track. The race (as we know) which started in 1929, runs in a triangle […]

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