The rider who found the body of missing Sandgate rider Siemon Mulder hopes to organise a cortege of riders for...
Riders are being ripped off up to a million dollars in helmet non-compliance offences that may be bogus, yet the...
Riders are being fined for faulty or non-compliant exhausts because the states fail to consult on road rules and regulations, and police are conspiring to pervert the course of justice, says a long-time motorcycle campaigner. Wayne Carruthers was commenting on a recent article in which a Brisbane Barrister outlined the...
A rider, aged 35, spent a harrowing few seconds stuck to the tray of a hit-run ute driver this morning...
NSW will join Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia with a new road rule requiring all motorists to slow down...
The Oxley Highway is facing reduced speed limits early in the New Year, but at least one rider reckons the biggest problem is drivers crossing double white lines, not speed. The NSW Roads and Maritime Services earlier this year decided to reduce speed limits in several locations along the famed motorcycle...
A male rider in his 70s has died and a 46-year-old male rider has been injured when their bikes collided on...
ACT police have renewed their call for help to identify two riders who were videoed in separate incidents where a car swerved...
Police in two states have seized 11 stolen motorbikes under investigations into motor vehicle theft and rebirthing as motorbike theft runs rampant across the nation. Two of the bikes were seized in Deer Park, north-west Melbourne, and nine in Western Sydney after a police pursuit of an unlicensed rider. In...
A driver who caused the death of a rider has walked free from court over a technicality that allows motorists...
Three motorcyclists are critically injured following a horror night on the roads in NSW and Victoria with police appealing for...
Have you ever been busted for the same traffic offence multiple times in the one ride? While it is a “dog act”, it is entirely legal. One rider recently told us about copping multiple tickets for the same offence from a police officer who followed his bike for several kilometres...
A 24-year old male rider has died and another male rider has been seriously injured in a multi-vehicle crash involving...
Queensland Police claim a Maryborough rider “causing excessive noise” has died in a motorcycle crash in the Queensland city after...
The recent spate of hit-and-run crashes leaving motorcyclists injured and dead has continued with an incident early this morning in Sydney. A male rider and his female pillion, both in their 30s, suffered leg injuries after a collision with a vehicle about 1.20am (8 April 2019) at the intersection of Forest...
Police in all states are conducting annual Christmas/New Year blitzes and using the inevitable high road toll caused by massive...
A 35-year-old Nerang motorcyclist has died after colliding with a car on the Pacific Motorway at Gaven on the Gold...
Riders should be aware of double demerit points over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend as well as police “motorcycle safety campaigns” in Victoria and the Gold Coast hinterland. While the Queen’s Birthday weekend has been moved to October in Queensland, riders in the hinterland should also be aware of Operation North Upright which began in...
Victorian Police have suspended, not cancelled, fines recorded by 110 fixed speed and red light cameras infected by “WannaCry” ransomware...
Police harassment of participants on a Queensland-NSW charity ride last weekend is part of a propaganda war that is winning...
A 63-year-old Victorian man has died in a crash on a dirt road while out riding in a group southwest of Stanthorpe, Queensland, yesterday (Tuesday 11 September 2019). Police say the man was riding his motorcycle around noon along Murphy’s Crossing Road at Nundubbermere (above) as part of a larger...
A 60-year-old British motorcyclist has been sentenced to two years’ jail for dangerous driving based on evidence from his helmet camera...
Not for the first time, evidence from an action camera, like that in the video below, has helped incriminate riders...
The offender who strung wire at neck height across a Queensland forestry trail to “trap” riders faces a three-year jail sentence if caught. Gympie trail rider Ben Bird, 25, says he could have been decapitated if he was riding any faster when he hit the wire in Amamoor State Forest...
It was a tragic day on NSW roads yesterday for motorcycle riders with one dead and two injured in two...
You won’t hear the police coming when they switch over to quiet-running electric motorcycles which is happening in many police...
Most riders’ throttles are too slack, they don’t know the lane filtering rules, they sit too far back, they don’t use their footpegs correctly and they don’t use their head enough, according to bike cops. These are some of the many things I learnt from the police at Brisbane Bike Night....
Victoria Police will be out in force over the next few days as warning to motorcyclists to ride safely on...
NSW Police are at the scene of a fatal collision between a motorcycle and a truck in McGraths Hill in...
A spate of hit-run crashes involving drivers speeding off after crashing into motorcycles seems to have hit Victoria. The latest two hit-run crashes were in Brunswick yesterday (19 March 2019) and St Kilda West on Monday. A rider was also injured in a hit-run on Footscray Rd on February 28 and another...
This video clearly shows that the British police have a different perspective on helmet cameras to NSW and Victorian police....
Witnesses to a hit-and-run involving a truck and a motorcyclist aged 22 in Logan Village, Queensland, at 8pm on 15...
While Australian states are ramping up their anti-association laws that profile riders as potential outlaws, the US Senate has unanimously passed a motorcyclist anti-profiling resolution. This follows an American Motorcyclist Association survey finding that half of American motorcyclists say they have been profiled by police pulling them over. There is...
A second NSW rider has died today (3 August 2019) in what police describe as a single-vehicle accident and later...
A Victorian rider in his 20s has died after a tragic collision with a car that turned out in front...
One rider has died and another seriously injured in separate crashes in NSW and Queensland overnight. Blacktown collision In NSW, a 22-year-old man from Lalor Park died at the scene of a collision with a Toyota utility in Blacktown, western Sydney, at 8.30pm (9 November 2019). The collision occurred at the intersection...
This photo is the only time I saw any overt police presence the whole four days I was at the...
Queensland Police are seeking information about a collision in which a 29-year-old male motorcyclist suffered serious leg injuries last week....
While many riders hate covert speed cameras that are turning us into a nation of speedo gazers, they should welcome more red light traffic cameras. Lane filtering now puts us at the front of the traffic light queue, so when the light changes to green we have a duty to...
This British video of a police officer with sirens going and a hi-vis jacket and bike shows that some motorists...
A 43-year-old rider has passed away in hospital overnight after being involved in a collision with a ute at a...
Police around the country are again abusing statistics to issue their annual warning to motorcyclists that they will be out in force this Christmas. This follows a rise in motorcycle fatalities this year, including six in Queensland this past week. As a result, we can expect all available mobile speed...
A Coffs Harbour rider has received NSW Police approval to drive 390km to buy a second-hand commuter bike to ride...
A 47-year-old male rider has died in a collision with a car at the notoriously dangerous Minden turnoff on the...
Almost a year to the day after allegedly running a red light, and hitting and injuring a 63-year-old male motorcyclist, the driver of a Nissan utility will face a trial in the Parramatta Local Court. Driver Daniel Marjoribanks was charged after the crash at the intersection of Schofields and Windsor roads, Rouse...
Police in all states will be out in force over the Australia Day long weekend with double demerits applying from tomorrow (24...
A 51-year-old man has died after his motorcycle was hit by a 4WD attempting to turn into a driveway in...
NSW Police are charging riders with traffic offences based on GoPro video evidence obtained from other riders, says Sydney lawyer and Ducati 1098S rider Chris Kalpage. There have been many incidents of riders being charged after self-incriminating evidence was found on their GoPro footage, mobile phone data, GPS and even...
Debate over a “ludicrous” ban on helmet cameras in the South Australian Parliament last week was adjourned along party lines....
Police have been known to hand out fines for noisy motorcycle exhausts, but in India you not only get a...
Police have refused to withdraw an incorrect fine for a rider standing on the foot pegs, even though the “commonsense” practice was legalised in South Australia in 2016 and added to the Australian Road Rules this year. Click here to read about the new ARRs. Tim Byrne (pictured above) says...
Double demerit points apply from Friday (20 December 2019) in NSW, the ACT and Western Australia, affecting licensed riders not only...
A Melbourne man who attended a bikie charity ride over three years ago has been refused an American visa and...
There is no guaranteed method for avoiding traffic offences except not committing them. However, you can use the following “expert” guide to lessen the impact, cop a lesser fine, prevent copping extra fines (such as being pulled over for speeding and ending up with vehicle defect notices as well) or,...
Speeding cars with obscured number plates are much bigger evaders of speed camera fines than motorcyclists without front number plates....
Three riders have been injured in getaways from police and a crime scene in the past week on the Gold...
Police prosecution have dropped charges against an army veteran rider who claimed he was assaulted by police at a March 2018 charity ride. Michael “Magic” Parr faced a charge of not obeying the direction of police for this incident caught on video. It occurred at Woodenbong on March 3 on the 26th annual...
It seems police may be taking a more considered approach to issuing pandemic fines or Penalty Infringement Notices (PINs) for...
A 22-year-old male rider has died after his motorcycle struck a parked car and then a truck in northern Brisbane...
A 37-year-old Ducati rider has died overnight in hospital after a collision with a Subaru Outback in Sydney’s Inner West just after 5pm yesterday (20 June 2019). Police say the motorcycle and station wagon collided at the intersection of Old Canterbury Road and Dixson Avenue, Dulwich Hill. The male motorcyclist was treated...