The UK Highway Code is being revised to incorporate a hierarchy of vehicles where bigger vehicles have to look out...
Almost six years after lane filtering was first introduced for motorcycle riders in NSW in 2014, Western Australia will finally...
(Contributed post) Motorcycle accidents have been one of the major problems on the road in California. Motorcyclists don’t have a steel or sturdy material to protect them when accidents happen- as cars do. Hence, there’s a high chance they’ll be thrown away during any vehicular collision. Motorcyclists are less visible...
Road conditions play a significant role in motorcycle safety so some state governments and councils are now auditing thousands of...
Motorcycle parking is under siege from motorists who think they can use our parking bays and even put shopping trolleys...
A rider’s call for ute and truck tarps and/or cargo nets, as in Queensland, has been rejected by the Victorian Department of Transport. Longtime motorcycle advocate Rodney Brown (pictured above) says debris from utes and trucks is particularly dangerous to vulnerable motorcycle, scooter and bicycle riders. He should know; he...
The minimum rider age for South Australians will be raised by two years with some concessions, but they have dodged...
Each New Year we make resolutions to do something new, better or at least different for the next year. This...
Stories about helmet safety and legalities, Arlen Ness and Charley Boorman, road rules, crashes, lane filtering and a big-bore kit attracted the most interest from our readers in 2019. With more than 300,000 readers a month, we have a pretty fair idea of what subjects are of interest to our...
Many riders like to get into the holiday spirit by wearing Santa, elf, Elmo or reindeer novelty helmet covers. However,...
More riders can now wear helmet cameras and bluetooth intercom attachments and fit tinted visors after South Australia joined the...
Just because it’s Monday and you probably need a bit of a lift, we are reposting this viral video of a dog somewhere in Brazil actually riding a motorcycle. We think it’s the pawfect excuse to paws and smile. It certainly made us laugh as well as make us scratch our...
A driver who caused the death of a rider has walked free from court over a technicality that allows motorists...
Just days after we published an article in which Queensland Police waived an erroneous fine for a “void” motorcycle helmet...
A rider who was rear-ended believes he would have been able to avoid it if he had been taught to lane filter and has called for the skill to be included in learner and advanced rider-training courses. Shannon, 37, of Caboolture, Queensland, says he was rear-ended because he lacked the training and...
Technology has outpaced road rules on driver distraction, leaving the current rules inadequate, difficult to police and confusing as they...
The Victorian Motorcycle Council has called to remove mandatory hi-vis vests for learner riders in its 10-page submission to the...
A recent reader asked if it was legal, safe and wise to switch off the motorcycle when stopped for a long time at roadworks. Firstly, it is not illegal to switch off your motorcycle when stopped at roadworks or even the traffic lights. In fact, many modern cars have stop-go...
If you think Australian road rules and lane filtering rules vary substantially between states, how about the USA where the...
Hopes of a trial of forward stop lines or motorcycle boxes for the safety of filtering riders have been set...
This cyclist video from a Tasmanian rider shows how cyclists use numbers to defy the road rules, prompting more calls for an identification system for bicycles. Suzuki rider Estelle Rose posted the video on her Facebook page. Cyclist video “I’m riding to work this morning, obeying the road rules and...
A recent crash that injured a NSW police motorcyclist happened despite a new rule requiring motorists to slow to 40km/h...
Highway road shoulders look inviting for motorcyclists when the traffic is heavy, but is it legal and are they a...
Queensland is the only state that allows edge filtering on some roads and now riders have been granted further leniency when the speed limit is temporarily changed. Lane filtering was introduced in 2015 under the former Liberal State Government, thanks to lobbying by the Motorcycle Riders Association of Queensland. The...
Riders crossing state and territory borders should be aware that motorcycle lane filtering rules and penalties vary substantially. This week...
The Australian Capital Territory today (October 9, 2018) joins much of Australia with permanent motorcycle lane-filtering rules after a successful...
NSW will join Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia with a new road rule requiring all motorists to slow down when passing stationary or slow-moving emergency vehicles. In NSW, WA and Victoria, motorists have to slow to 40km/h, but they have to slow to 25km/h in SA. Queensland has rejected...
Riders should head out into the country this weekend and spend their money in rural areas to help drought-stricken communities,...
Motorcycles in many countries are allowed to ride through red lights after they have come to a stop because of...
Lane filtering rules still vary substantially from state to state and have not yet been passed in Western Australia or the Northern Territory, after they were introduced in NSW in July 2014. The practice is allowed and even encouraged in many countries. In the USA, California allows lane splitting at...
Many riders straight-line a series of corners by crossing broken white lines, but Victorian Police warn it’s illegal and recently...
Helmet cameras, tinted visors, standing on the footpegs and other rules affecting riders have moved toward uniformity with the publication...
Tasmania joins the move to lane filtering across Australia with the lowest fine, leaving Western Australia as the only state that has not joined in. Lane filtering starts in the Apple Isle on January 29 2018 with a fine of $159 and two demerit points, which is the lowest in...
Motorcycle police often ride around with the chin bar on their modular or flip-up helmets in the up position, but...
Unbroken white lines are appearing on more and more roads in an effort to stop motorists from overtaking, but is...
For those who believe police think there is one rule for them and another for the rest of us comes this video from India of a police motorcycle officer on a mobile phone. When the officer is confronted by the rider videoing the incident, the police officer slaps him. The...
Motorcycle riders should be able to filtering between traffic and the kerb like cyclists, lane filtering fines should be lowered...
A proposal to make lane filtering rules uniform across Australia seeks to ban edge filtering, according to the Australian Motorcycle...
Riders are confused about the legality of helmets with Bluetooth and camera attachments because the rules are not freely available and too technical. In its submission to the National Transport Commission (NTC) on uniform national road rules, motorcycle specialist legal firm Maurice Blackburn Lawyers argues that riders cannot hope to know the...
Video from helmet cameras will not only provide evidence of an incident but should make roads safer by encouraging compliance...
Attempts to draft uniform national road rules, including helmet and filtering laws, may leave riders even more confused and prone...
Emergency services workers are pushing for national approval of the new Victorian rule that vehicles must slow to 40km/h when passing parked or slow-moving emergency vehicles. This is despite the fact that one day after Victoria introduce the new rule a truck slammed into the rear of a small sedan that...
A simple lane filtering rule change could save the lives of riders who filter to the front of traffic at...
National road rules, including lane filtering, are being discussed now and are likely to be put out for public discussion...
Riders have been urged to challenge lane filtering fines in court to press the point that they are confusing and varied across state borders. Rider advocates Wayne Carruthers and Guy Stanford say that riders are confused about the rules and being fined heavily for minor transgressions of the lane filtering...
Just about every dog loves to dangle its tongue in the wind and Tex the Toowoomba trike-riding dog is no...
A young rider has successfully defended a fine for standing on the footpegs after NSW police deemed it unsafe. Over the...
Politicians are ignoring a petition against a rule allowing motorists to cross solid and double white lines to pass cyclists thus endangering oncoming motorcyclists. Rider Maritha Keyser, one of many people injured in such an incident, is disappointed that her petition, which is closing in on 2000 signatures, has failed...
A petition to change the road rule allowing drivers to cross solid white lines to overtake a cyclist has attracted...
The rule allowing drivers to cross a solid white line to overtake a cyclist is putting the lives of motorcyclists...
Arcane road rules that affect motorcyclists and vary from state to state are gradually being addressed with South Australia the latest to see reason. Over the past few years, these varied laws have exposed riders to being fined for: Having a GPS on their bike; Not wearing the correct helmet/visor; Having blinkers...
Slow-moving vehicles should be made to pull over when they have a conga line of vehicles following and police should...
As Queensland changes its motorcycle road rules in October and allows helmet cameras, state ministers will be meeting at a Canberra...
Signs showing riders where legal lane filtering ends and recommences are being erected in Victorian cities to mark the beginning of the new laws from today (November 2, 2015). Victoria is the third state of Australia to introduce lane filtering laws along with Queensland and NSW, while the ACT is in the...
Did you know you cannot even walk your motorcycle from the bowser to a parking space unless you are wearing...
Five months after the offence of standing while riding was deleted from the road rules, Queensland Police have issued a...
Lane filtering laws that are gradually filtering into more and more jurisdictions have created a precedent in our road rules that I believe should be exploited further. These rules now recognise that motorcycles are different from other vehicles because they are narrower. The road rules should also recognise other unique...
If you think Australian road rules vary between states, how about the USA where five states are considering lane-filtering rules...
From February 1, Australia became a little more confusing for motorcycle riders with several slightly different lane-filtering rules across the states....
From tomorrow, NSW will introduce lane-filtering laws and in three days a Queensland discussion paper that includes allowing different lane filtering rules will end. READ MY STORY HERE Australia has been a Federation since 1901, yet more than a century later we are still confusing motorists with laws that vary from...