Riders can win prizes during Road Safety Week in Queensland when Nerang Police conduct a “North Upright” education campaign on...
Just days after we published an article in which Queensland Police waived an erroneous fine for a “void” motorcycle helmet...
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,...
Australian Motorcycle Council chairman Shaun Lennard will address the ride in Hobart and will explain why the AMC is so...
Compensation to people wrongfully arrested and harassed under the Queensland Government’s Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment (VLAD) Act could cost up...
A 27-year-old Crestmead man has died after a head-on collision between his motorcycle and a car on Springfield Greenbank Arterial Road, south of Brisbane, overnight. Queensland Police say their initial investigations indicate that about 7.10pm, a car heading south and a motorcycle heading north collided. The rider suffered critical injuries...
The Queensland Police officer videoed removing his left leg from the footpeg of his motorcycle will not be fined, Queensland...
Gone are the days when motorcycle police rode around in jodhpurs and a leather jacket with no protectors. International Workplace,...
Alleged NSW and Queensland police harassment of a motorcycle club charity ride on Saturday (March 3, 2018) cost thousands in lost revenue for various charities and businesses, says the ride organiser. Hells Angels MC Brisbane Chapter member Jeff Ehler says he has a long list of police harassment claims. They...
Many riders have welcomed the introduction of lane filtering, but there are a couple of traps in the laws that...
Riders in Queensland will have to stop their bike and get off to stretch their legs. Jake Sloman of Brisbane...
Queensland Police have today launched their new DayGlo yellow motorcycles and high-visibility motorcycle police jackets to “send a message”. In launching Operation Papa Guardian for the summer, Acting Deputy Commissioner Bob Gee says “high visibility on the road saves lives”. “We make no apology for being highly visible,” he says....
Thousands attended the Brisbane Freedom Rally against the Queensland Government’s anti-association laws today. A comprehensive series of reports will be...
Wives, mothers and children of motorcycle riders affected by the VLAD Act had to speak on their behalf at the...
A YouTube video of several police harassing a rider at a Beenleigh service station with a protracted licence check is not the end of the story. Fat Boy rider Jamie Evans says that after being held up for about 40 minutes by police in five patrol cars, he was pulled...
A motorcyclist out for a Sunday ride on his favourite local mountain road has died in a crash. The 34-year-old...
Paul Mulder, son of missing rider Siemon, says he and his father (pictured above) often went on rides and he...
A 22-year-old male rider has died after his motorcycle crashed at Stratford in northern Cairns, Queensland, this afternoon (Sunday 29 September 2019). Police say the rider was heading north on the Captain Cook Highway about 12.30pm when it hit a guardrail of the Barron River Bridge and crashed down an...
Police have defended their use of a covert Trucam mobile speed camera unit at the bottom of a 7.9km downhill...
A Brisbane motorcycle mechanic was made to take off his shirt on a busy roadside during a recent police ID...
This dramatic video shows a motorcycle rider making a short dash for freedom after ramming a Queensland Police motorcycle. It’s the second time in a week a Queensland motorcycle cop has been rammed. Click here for that dramatic footage. No matter what you think about motorcycle police, it can be a...
A driver has been fined a measly $275 for an unsecured load after a mattress fell out of his ute...
Any club member – not just motorcycle clubs – could face extensive jail time for relatively minor offences under the...
Queensland police are in jeopardy of losing the support and goodwill of motorcycle riders over pressure to enact new powers under the so-called “world’s toughest anti-bikie laws”. Under the laws, innocent recreational riders have been harassed by police and mistakenly intercepted. While tabling in Parliament an anti-bikie laws petition started...
Two riders died in separate intersection crashes in South East Queensland yesterday (3 July 2019) where it appears a vehicle...
The first Freedom Ride national rally against the VLAD Laws has been a resounding success with close to 3000...
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...
Claims that police had a taser ready to use on a biker at a service station have proved false. The...
Ulysses Club members are being harassed by Queensland Police for wearing “old man” patches that some police mistake for outlaw...
A 24-year-old male rider has been seriously injured in a collision with a car in Southport this morning (25 January 2020). Queensland Police say their initial investigations indicate that about 8.50am, a blue Toyota Corolla hatchback and a red Yamaha motorcycle collided at the intersection of Anne and Shirley streets,...
Queensland Police recently staged a motorcycle “safety” display at Mt Glorious where they showed a video taken from a GoPro...
Police will be out in force today (Sunday, July 26) in the Queensland border region after a few nasty motorcycle...
People arrested or harassed under the draconian Queensland VLAD laws as part of the government’s so-called bikie war say they are suffering mentally and financially, and continue to be harassed by police. They even include the widow of a declared bikie club affiliate. All of those arrested or harassed should...
There is a “logical flaw” in the Queensland Police voluntary ride register, according to the Australian Motorcycle Council. The online...
A Queensland rider fined this week for stretching his legs while riding is not the first person fined for the...
A male rider has died after hitting a guard rail and another rider has been injured after being hit by a truck in seperate crashes in South East Queensland yesterday afternoon. Police say a man died at the scene of a crash at Yandina about 2.30pm. He was riding south...
Motorcycle lane filtering, common sense rules on having your hands and feet on the bars and footpegs, and international helmet...
Queensland’s VLAD laws are now effecting the RSPCA’s annual Ruff Riders 500 charity ride. Even the attraction of riding with...
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...
Aussie racing car legend Kevin Bartlett has taken up the fight against “stupid” motorcycle laws that prevent riders from stretching...
The body of a 42-year-old man has been found up to 12 hours after he went missing on a country...
Australia Day protests against the anti-bikie laws in Queensland are going global. Protests will be held in London, Dublin and San Francisco, California. The British Bikers Protest starts at the Ecuadorian embassy, to highlight the plight of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, then moves to Australia House to protest the Newman...
Builders who are also members of declared criminal bikie clubs will lose their jobs from July unless they quit the...
Queensland Police will this morning (21 July, 2018) preach the road-craft theories of five-time world motorcycle champion Mick Doohan which...
Australia’s High Court will be asked to overturn more than a dozen sections of the Newman Government’s VLAD Act and “anti-bikie” legislation. The first challenge to the laws was lodged in Brisbane at noon today. Among the attacks on the validity of the laws, the challenge will contest the anti-association...
Bikers are dead against registering their ride with Queensland Police, yet clubs are registering rides. A MotorbikeWriter poll attracting 663...
Should your club or charity ride be escorted by police given one of the biggest controversies during the dark early...
Queensland Police are calling for information about an incident in which a rider was robbed of his Kawasaki Ninja 250R by two men armed with a shotgun at 2am today in Crestmead, south of Brisbane. The rider had pulled over to check map directions on his mobile phone when he was...
The ride register will remain and recreational riders will continue to be incorrectly intercepted in the short term, but riders...
Riders intercepted by police have been advised to record the conversation, no matter where they are. But it is crucial...
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...
In the run-up to the usual Christmas crackdown on motorists, Queensland Police have released this video compilation of the stupid...
A rider who slid off the road has coincidentally found the body of Sandgate rider Siemon Mulder who went missing...
Queensland Police Senior Sergeant Ian Park became a social media sensation when he posted on Facebook about arriving at the scene of a motorcycle accident not knowing a friend was the fatal victim. Now he speaks for the first time about his experience, what he and others can learn from...
Five months after the offence of standing while riding was deleted from the road rules, Queensland Police have issued a...
Witnesses are being sought after a 2004 blue Honda Accord sedan merged into a lane with a 2012 blue Harley-Davidson...
A ministerial directive for police to target motorcyclists because of “alarming” crash statistics, is misleading to the public and unfair to riders, according to the Motorcycle Riders Association of Queensland. Queensland Police Minister Mark Ryan says riders are over-represented in crashes and police say they will actively “engage” riders. However,...
A Brisbane rider who claims to have been harassed multiple times by police during the height of the Queensland anti-bikie...
Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart will not ride in any more toy runs. The Commissioner took part in the Ipswich...
Sons of Anarchy star Kim Coates has responded to claims by fellow star Mark Boone Jr that the show “saved Harley”. “Boone and I did this great Hollywood Reporter story and Boone screams out, ‘’We basically saved Harley.’ And I went, ‘Oh god, that’s going to come back and bite...