The MRA(vic) is pleased to announce the MRA ToyRun 2010 destination will be the Melbourne Docklands.

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Congratulations to the MCCNSW for their successful protest yesterday!

The New South Wales Government has agreed to review the price of motorcycle green slips after a loud protest outside State Parliament today.

About 1000 angry motorcyclists have taken to the street outside Parliament House in Sydney to protest at the high insurance premiums they say they are being forced to pay.

HAMISH Boland-Rudder of Kings Langley is among thousands of NSW motorcyclists protesting against the massive rise in their CTP Greenslip at State Parliament today.

A Motorcycle Council of NSW spokesman said the NSW government should recognise riders as an independent road user group.

Mr Boland-Rudder said some riders were being slugged as high as 88.9 per cent for their third party insurance after the Motor Accident Authority of NSW changes took effect on July 1.

MTF Fairfax Community Network community forums
In preparation for Victorian state election 27 November 2010




Come along and attend these forums to ensure motorcycle and scooter riders are represented!

Motorcycle riders are expected to be out in force on Sydney streets at noon today to protest state insurance laws.

The MRA (Vic) is awaiting the release of a public discussion paper due this week by Victorian Minister for Roads, Tim Pallas. This paper has been foreshadowed by action items in the Arrive Alive Road Safety Strategy 2008 – 2010, and also the Strategic Action Plan for Powered Two Wheelers 2009 – 2013.

VICTORIA is set to introduce the toughest motorbike licence testing conditions in Australia in a bid to bring down the state's road toll.

Michael Wiles snapped riding with the bbq along the Eastern Freeway. Picture: Supplied
Source: HWT Image Library
A MOTORCYCLIST who was photographed on a freeway with a barbecue strapped to his body has hit a snag.

NSW

MASSIVE hikes in green slip fees for some motorbikes have caused huge frustration among many riders across the state.

Changes were introduced in July which increased the number of motorbike categories from three to five, according to engine capacity.

The Roxby Downs Council and Roxby police are still willing to discuss designating a section of land for off-road motorbike riders.

In July last year police called for a meeting with the council and BHP Billiton to discuss a proposal to build a fenced-off motorbike park for riders with uninsured and unregistered motorbikes.

Detectives from Caulfield CIU are appealing for information over the theft of two motorcycles from a dealer in Brighton East.

The thieves struck about 2am on Monday August 9 when an alarm was set off at the motorcycle dealership on the Nepean Highway.

Older drivers, motorcyclists and country motorists are all over-represented in the state's sky-rocketing road toll.

In the latest fatal collision emergency services were called to Gembrook Road in Pakenham Upper around 5am.

Investigators believe that a 19-year-old Gembrook man was driving south when his vehicle collided with a tree that was across the road.

He died at the scene.

Chairman’s communiqué from 15 July 2010 meeting

With a busy meeting, and an agenda featuring a number of presentations, VMAC was provided with a considerable amount of material relevant to current motorcycling matters.

Britain's top traffic policeman warned the government on Monday that cutting state funding for speed cameras as part of new austerity measures would lead to a rise in fatal roads accidents.

THE number of drivers facing criminal charges and jail after serious car accidents is increasing rapidly after the most significant reform to road policing in the state for more than three decades.

The largest UK provider of motorbike insurance - Carole Nash - published a report on Wednesday, August 4th, which suggests that bike insurance premiums fell in the past 12 months.

Bikers are getting older, but riding a motorcycle is still the most dangerous way to travel on the roads, Welsh road safety statistics published yesterday revealed.

Figures released by the Assembly Government showed that the chance of being killed or seriously injured riding a motorbike during 2009 was 54 times greater than travelling by car.

INTELLIGENT criminal profiling will be used to identify the dangerous drivers most likely to kill on the road, in a million-dollar world-first initiative to slash the road toll.

Victoria Police has launched a Road Policing Analysis Unit, to be staffed by 13 people who will gather intelligence on our worst recidivist drivers.

DALE Albert's behaviour on a hot February night in 2007 could not have been more culpable.