Wet summer riding blues
The wet summer hasn’t just made bike riding a less pleasurable experience; it’s also hampered efforts to repair the nation’s damaged road networks – and that signals potential trouble for bike riders… No one who’s been out riding this summer can have missed how bad the weather’s been: wet, cold and often pretty miserable. Indeed,...
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The head of road safety charity IAM RoadSmart has urged the Government to up its game.
The head of road safety charity IAM RoadSmart has urged the Government to up its game in a bid to reduce fatalities and injuries among the bike riding community. Antony Kildare made his feelings known as Department for Transport official figures showed that one-in-five of all road deaths in UK are bikers, despite making up...
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THINK! ‘Travel Like You Know Them’ campaign is relaunched
Government road safety campaign THINK! has relaunched its ‘Travel Like You Know Them’ campaign, as part of efforts to raise awareness of the 2022 Highway Code changes. The changes create a hierarchy of vulnerability among road users and place an increasing scale of responsibility on road users depending on their potential to do harm. In...
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GEM Motoring Assist has launched a new campaign to keep motorcycle riders safe
Leading road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist has launched a new campaign to keep motorcycle riders safe this summer by encouraging car and van drivers to take an extra look for them at junctions, where many collisions occur. GEM warns that summertime sees many roads become busier with riders as they take advantage...
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Calls on the Government to make changes to compulsory basic training (CBT)
A coalition of organisations is calling on the Government to make changes to compulsory basic training (CBT) for motorcycles to strengthen safety standards and reduce danger on roads. The current CBT for motorcycles and mopeds, which enables people as young as 17 to ride up to the national speed limit with L-plates after one day...
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Do lives of young motorcyclists matter to wider society?
Heidi Duffy MBE, the National Young Rider Forum Facilitator, penned a thought-provoking editorial to coincide with National Young Rider Day on June 27. In it she asks if the lives of young motorcyclists matter to wider society, as so little seems to be being done to keep them safe on the road. As she points...
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Road death stats a tragedy for bikers
The latest road casualties data from the Department for Transport has highlighted how much work needs to be done to promote safer powered bike riding after it was revealed that 21 per cent of all fatalities were motorcyclists, despite riders covering only just over one per cent of all the road miles covered. Tragically, 354...
Dead Slow, the campaign with tips and advice on how to pass a horse safely
There can’t have been many people who weren’t impressed by the stunning sight of the massed ranks of horses parading through the streets of London for the King’s coronation. It was all the more impressive because we don’t see horses on the roads that often in our cities, and it’s only when you see them...
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A ‘hidden epidemic of drug-riding is at large in Britain’
A ‘hidden epidemic of drug-riding is at large in Britain’, according to a report by leading road safety charity, IAM RoadSmart – and it’s not just illicit drugs that are the problem. While the rules on riding after taking recreational drugs are well known and lead to hefty fines and bans from the road, what...
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National Motorcycle Safety Week
It’s tragic to know that while motorcycles make up only around 1% of road traffic, in 2021 they accounted for 20% of road fatalities and 12% of road casualties in Great Britain. To help change these statistics, the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) held a National Motorcycle Safety Week from 3-9 April, with the main...
One in five UK roads could be undriveable within the next five years because of potholes, experts have claimed.
And while this is a major headache for cars and vans, it is potentially life threatening for motorcyclists. A survey in 2022 by MCN Compare found that one in five motorcyclists had had an accident or sustained damage to their bike as a result of hitting a pothole, and the Motorcycle Action Group’s own survey...
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Next phase on TfL’s 20mph plans “would help to make a large area of south London safer”
TfL has unveiled plans to introduce 65km of new 20mph speed limits later this year, a move it says will “make a real difference in cutting road danger”. The new speed limits would impact roads in a number of boroughs, including Greenwich, Kensington and Chelsea, Lewisham, Southwark, Wandsworth, Merton, Bromley and Lambeth. TfL says their...
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