A YouTube video showing the police interception of a Brisbane motorcycle rider has caused a social media frenzy with some...
There is a “logical flaw” in the Queensland Police voluntary ride register, according to the Australian Motorcycle Council. The online...
http://youtu.be/IcZqIrI4y4I An “olive branch” should be offered to recreational motorcycle riders for the inconvenience and injustice of the VLAD Act and the “over-reaching” by police in the early stages of Queensland’s anti-bikie laws, says a Brisbane motorcycle business operator. Matt Jones, owner of Rocker Classic Motorcycles, Nundah, says he...
A YouTube video of several police harassing a rider at a Beenleigh service station with a protracted licence check is...
Many riders have welcomed the introduction of lane filtering, but there are a couple of traps in the laws that...
Queensland has launched an online survey on plans to introduce lane-filtering, commonsense rider control rules and international helmet standards. Read my story here. The great news is that riders from any state can participate. You don’t even need to be Australian! The survey requires you to register with your email...
https://youtu.be/xcPJ1dKpqos This video is yet another reason to avoid road rage. The rider takes the time to flick the finger and...
Queensland police are in jeopardy of losing the support and goodwill of motorcycle riders over pressure to enact new powers...
South Australia is set to introduce anti-bikie laws similar to Queensland’s Vicious Lawless Associates Disestablishment (VLAD) laws, despite those laws failing. The only person so far convicted under the former Queensland Government’s VLAD laws is Joshua Robin Rohl who smuggled $16m worth of cannabis on commercial flights between Melbourne and...
The Queensland anti-bikie laws are apparently popular with the public. Some 48% agree with them and about 20% say the...
Australian Motorcycle Council chairman Shaun Lennard will address the ride in Hobart and will explain why the AMC is so...
Any club member – not just motorcycle clubs – could face extensive jail time for relatively minor offences under the Queensland Government’s Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment Act. That’s the considered decision of Brisbane criminal law firm Guest Lawyers who describes the VLAD Act as “incredibly broad” in its reach. Click...
A Brisbane motorcycle mechanic was made to take off his shirt on a busy roadside during a recent police ID...
Australia Day protests against the anti-bikie laws in Queensland are going global. Protests will be held in London, Dublin and...
The organiser of an anti-VLAD concert to raise money for the High Court fight against discriminatory VLAD Laws in Queensland has bravely decided to go ahead. An internet effort to raise money to guarantee the Freedom Family Fun Day and Concert failed to rewash its target, but organiser Grant Newson...
The organiser of a concert to raise money for the High Court fight against discriminatory VLAD Laws in Queensland has...
The organiser of an anti-VLAD meeting says he has encountered nothing but grief from hotels where he hoped to stage...
Bikers are dead against registering their ride with Queensland Police, yet clubs are registering rides. A MotorbikeWriter poll attracting 663 respondents has found 615 or 93% said they would not register their ride. The voluntary register process was proposed last month by Police Commissioner Ian Stewart at a meeting with...
Builders who are also members of declared criminal bikie clubs will lose their jobs from July unless they quit the...
Queensland Parliament has rejected a call for a public inquiry into the VLAD Act and anti-association or anti-bikie laws. The...
The story of a Queensland police car that caught fire after a hot pursuit of an allegedly speeding motorcycle rider has taken a few twists since it was unveiled on Monday (October 5, 2015). It now seems complaints may be made about the driving behaviour of the police officer and...
Voters will have their first democratic opportunity to “speak out against the madness” tomorrow (Feb 8). It’s the by-election in...
(UPDATE: Case 2 below has been dropped. The police have decided not to go ahead. That’s great news and is...
Charity motorcycle rides last weekend may have been harassed by Queensland Police as part of the crackdown on outlaw bikie gangs. Motorcycle Riders Association of Queensland president Chris Mearns says they have received about six complaints so far, but he has not been able to substantiate them. “One was a...
Alleged NSW and Queensland police harassment of a motorcycle club charity ride on Saturday (March 3, 2018) cost thousands in...
A police officer was more interested in photographing the tattoos of an injured motorcycle rider than helping the man, according...
Just days after we published an article in which Queensland Police waived an erroneous fine for a “void” motorcycle helmet sticker, a second similar incorrect infringement has surfaced. And it seems one of the chiefs of the Road Policing Command is so out of touch with the Australian and Queensland...
A rider who slid off the road has coincidentally found the body of Sandgate rider Siemon Mulder who went missing...
The body of a 42-year-old man has been found up to 12 hours after he went missing on a country...
South East Queensland riders are invited to attend a major safety education display at Nerang this Sunday after a horror start to the year with eight motorcyclist deaths. A safety display will be held at the Country Paradise Parklands on Nerang-Beaudesert Road from 8am-1pm on Sunday, February 19, 2017. It...
Thousands attended the Brisbane Freedom Rally against the Queensland Government’s anti-association laws today. A comprehensive series of reports will be...
A driver has been fined a measly $275 for an unsecured load after a mattress fell out of his ute...
Despite media beat-ups that proclaim a massive surge in motorcycle crashes in Queensland, an education program has been credited with actually reducing the toll. Motorcycle Riders’ Association of Queensland president Chris Mearns says most of the deaths were in a few incidents early in the year which triggered an effective...
Queensland Police Senior Sergeant Ian Park became a social media sensation when he posted on Facebook about arriving at the...
Changes to road rules banning riders from stretching their legs or standing up now appear to have the support of...
Riders in Queensland will have to stop their bike and get off to stretch their legs. Jake Sloman of Brisbane was riding on the Logan Highway when he stretched his leg and was pulled over by police and fined $146. The offence is “Fail to keep both feet on footrest”....
This is a photo of me performing an act which could be illegal in every state of Australia … and...
Police continue to be plagued by “over-zealous” officers issuing “petty” fines with the latest being a $330 penalty for not...
Four allegedly stolen motorcycles have been recovered and 118 people charged on 342 offences following a four-day police operation in Logan, south of Brisbane. This follows similar police operations in Victorian and NSW last month where police seized 11 stolen motorbikes under investigations into motor vehicle theft and rebirthing. In Queensland,...
The first Freedom Ride national rally against the VLAD Laws has been a resounding success with close to 3000...
People arrested or harassed under the draconian Queensland VLAD laws as part of the government’s so-called bikie war say they...
A three-month night-time police operation in the Brisbane mountains cracking down on “hoons” has ended, while heavy patrolling continues for traffic offences and unroadworthy/non-compliant vehicles. The night-time Operation North Thorn focused on detecting late-night hooning and anti-social driving behaviour in the Mount Nebo and Mount Glorious areas. It is believed...
Australia’s High Court will be asked to overturn more than a dozen sections of the Newman Government’s VLAD Act and...
Motorcycle riders will now have to ring a police hotline number if they want to ride in groups of three...
Most riders have experienced aggressive, inconsiderate, rude, uneducated, distracted, dangerous and plain incompetent drivers on the road, but there is no point in road rage. Motorcyclists are vulnerable road users and in road rage situations, we can often come off second-best. In an incident on April 13 at 5.40pm on...
The tide is turning against the VLAD Act in the wake of recent events such as the six-day jailing of...
Motorists are starting to get the message about illegally using a mobile phone, according to a new survey, as Queensland...
Ulysses Club members are being harassed by Queensland Police for wearing “old man” patches that some police mistake for outlaw colours. The Ulysses Club was one of several “recreational rider” groups invited to a meeting last month with Police Commissioner Ian Stewart and Police Minister Jack Dempsey. They have all...
Aussie racing car legend Kevin Bartlett has taken up the fight against “stupid” motorcycle laws that prevent riders from stretching...
Motorcycle lane filtering, common sense rules on having your hands and feet on the bars and footpegs, and international helmet...
A motorcyclist out for a Sunday ride on his favourite local mountain road has died in a crash. The 34-year-old male rider from Middle Park was enjoying a Sunday ride on Mt Glorious (pictured above) Brisbane’s favourite motorcycling road, at 8.27am today when he “lost control and struck a tree”,...
Wives, mothers and children of motorcycle riders affected by the VLAD Act had to speak on their behalf at the...
Paul Mulder, son of missing rider Siemon, says he and his father (pictured above) often went on rides and he...
The third annual Mods V Rockers ride to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the 1964 Brighton beach clashes in the UK between Mods and Rockers will be held in var ious places around the world this weekend. Instead of riots, there will be riotous fun as clouds of blue smoke rise...
Unpredictable English weather, clouds of blue smoke, the heavy scent of two-stroke fuel and rainbow oil spots on the road...
Another Queensland Police and Transport and Main Roads (TMR) blitz on motorcycles is expected in the next couple of weeks,...
Rules that prevent riders stretching their legs or standing up on motorcycle footpegs have been confirmed as flawed by Queensland Transport and Main Roads officials, according to racing legend Kevin Bartlett. READ ABOUT THE ‘STUPID’ RULE HERE The 1974 Bathurst 1000 winner and long-time motorcycle rider started a campaign against...
“I’m down, I’m down,” a motorcycle officer calmly says into his police radio after being rammed by the driver of...
Gone are the days when motorcycle police rode around in jodhpurs and a leather jacket with no protectors. International Workplace,...
The Queensland Government crackdown on declared criminal motorcycle clubs is worrying tourism operators and officials. One tourism operator even believes accommodation providers are turning away bikers for fear of losing other customers scared of their appearance. At a recent meeting in Warwick of South East Queensland tourism bureaucrats, local government...