CYCLISTS should be limited to a speed limit of 20 km/h in the city to improve safety, according to the head of Melbourne City Council's planning committee.

BRAVE Mike Grainger broke a European speed record by hitting 249.1mph on a motorbike — aged 61.

Grandad Mike averaged 229mph on two quarter-mile runs at a speed trial. He reclaimed the record he had held for two years until 1998.

The Motorcycle Riders Association of Western Australia want more free, all day parking in the city to ease congestion on Perth's roadways.

Vice President and the Road Safety Officer of the Motorcycle Riders Association of WA (MRAWA), Dave Wright, wants motorbikes and scooters to be allowed to park on public walkways in Perth city.

The community has heard enough about what's causing crashes on the roads from the government, like petulant children bespoken to by those who know better we should all now be resting assured they have the solution at hand. Ban motorcycles and arm the enforcement drones. What's really going on?

The VicPol conclusions are analogous to the thinking of a religious fundamentalist, where thinking is based upon “beliefs”, rather than upon assessable facts. Choosing to ignore glaring facts and in the process, reducing respect, rights or credibility of the “outsider” is the mark of a fundamentalist.

According to a survey conducted by the California Office of Traffic Safety, the majority of car drivers are unaware that lane splitting is a legal practice. A small minority, seven percent, admitted to researchers that they'd actively tried to prevent lane splitting. Despite that, the vast majority, 84.4 percent of riders, have never had an incident while splitting.

That's it! I've had it with this total balderdash!

I sit here fuming (yet not alone) watching yet another of Victoria Police's finest turn another classic case of "sorry mate I didn't see you" into the fault of the motorcyclist. It's bad enough that the Transport Accident Commission is spreading this idea to the community with their totally reprehensible advertisement, in direct defiance of the Maurice Blackburn SMIDSY Campaign, but with this tragedy yesterday, the inference and blame is laid soley on the rider who was allegedly doing nothing more than minding his own lawful business down a highway when a driver with evidently poor judgement made a U-Turn in front of him.

Damaged: The stolen car which police say was involved in the chase (ABC Local: 774 Melbourne)

Police have been accused of using motorists to create a roadblock to stop a "maniac" driver who led officers on a high-speed chase in northern Victoria.

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A TAC safety campaign unfairly lays all the blame on the motorcyclist.

AS AN example of a public safety campaign, the latest graphic Transport Accident Commission campaign aimed at motorcyclists succeeds only in showing once again why the TAC struggles to gain the confidence of riders.

Police from Melbourne East have launched a week-long operation targeting road trauma involving vulnerable road users including pedestrians and cyclists in the Melbourne CBD.

Operation Road Runner will target risky road user behaviour in an attempt to educate motorists, pedestrians and cyclists about some of the common dangers and distractions on city roads.

There were 287 deaths on Victorian roads in 2011. Of those, 106 (37 per cent) deaths involved vulnerable road users, including 49 pedestrians, eight cyclists and 49 motorcycle riders and passengers.

''We just ride our bikes and that's it'' … bikies behaving quietly in Kings Cross on Saturday night. Photo: Steve Lunam


OUTLAW motorcycle gangs call themselves the ''1 per centers'', the fringe minority that will never be part of mainstream society. But police figures show bikies commit less than 1 per cent of all crimes in NSW and ''are not a threat to mainstream society''.

We are the toll: police launch ANPR lock-down operations

Police will conduct the first of the lock-down style Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology operations this month with the launch of Operation MONTE, part of the ‘We are the toll’ campaign.

Police from the Operations Response Unit will show their commitment to road safety, launching the two-week, high visibility operation focusing on driver behaviour and reducing road trauma.

They will be assisted by local highway patrols, the Technology Enforcement Support Unit (ANPR operators) and the Sheriff’s Office to target unlicensed drivers, speed, drink-driving, driver distraction and fatigue.

Police have impounded a teenage hoon’s motorcycle for the second time in two months after he was clocked at 190 kilometres an hour - more than triple the 60km speed limit.

The impoundment comes barely a day after the 19-year-old Clayton man retrieved his bike from police - who impounded the vehicle one month ago for a different offence.

A survey of California motorists on "lane splitting" reveals that a small percentage drivers admit to having tried to stop motorcyclists from completing the controversial maneuver.

John Voyage is a Principal at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers specializing in road accident injuries.

Disappointed Victorians have swamped radio and the internet over the past week to vent their frustration at the conduct of the TAC in its new advertisement – a “reconstruction” depicting a collision between a motorcycle with a car that comes out from what appears to be a stop sign on a minor road of a T-intersection.

Police will monitor the Monash and Eastern freeways 24 hours a day to combat dangerous driving. Herald Sun

THE Monash and Eastern freeways will get 24-hour police patrols in an effort to stop dangerous driving.

Nunawading Highway Patrol's Senior Sergeant Wayne Elston said the patrols were about to start, following complaints of persistent illegal driving on freeways.

WA

Bikies, union officials and social justice groups met in Western Australia last night to oppose a State Government bill which makes it illegal for people in declared criminal organisations to associate with each other.

Headed by the United Motorcycle Council of WA, 25 groups are part of the movement trying to stop the passage of the Criminal Organisation Control bill through Parliament.

A plan to build a motorbike track in Victoria's Grampians has been dealt a blow after a ruling from the state's planning umpire.

A 32-year-old motorcyclist is in a critical condition in hospital after crashing while trying to evade police in Malvern East last night.

MISTAKE: Russell Wattie blames outsiders for the outbreak of violence. Picture: Mark Calleja Source: The Courier-Mail

QLD

OUTLAW bikies in Australia should not have allowed people of Middle Eastern origin into their clubs because they have a different "moral code", the spokesman for Queensland bikies' peak body says.