South Australia Police have released a video of a high-speed motorcycle crash in an effort to vindicate tougher new penalties...
Motorcyclist and road safety researcher Ross Blackman (pictured) has waded into our debate last week about whether roadworks speed limits...
While some riders may not like the hi-tech TruCAM II radar gun’s ability to more accurately measure speed, the device could also be considered a friend of the motorcyclist. Features which may appeal are its ability to target tailgaters, aggressive drivers, distracted driving and vehicles obstructing traffic. So why aren’t...
Riders should have input into more than $35 million in roadworks being planned for one of South East Queensland’s most...
Queensland Police will target motorcycle speeds after a spike in rider and pillion deaths in the first five months of...
With riders grounded in most states by the travel restrictions it almost seems pointless that some states have double demerits applying over the Easter long weekend. The “pointless points” start this morning and will end at midnight on Monday 13 April 2020 in NSW, the ACT and Western Australia. In NSW, they’re...
Queensland Police have charged a man with dangerous operation of a motorcycle after the night rider was videoed riding at more...
A 22-year-old man wanted for 55 traffic offences including several for speeds of more than 150km/h in Brisbane’s northern suburbs...
Double demerit points apply from Friday (20 December 2019) in NSW, the ACT and Western Australia, affecting licensed riders not only in those states, but also Queensland. The penalty period lasts until January 1 (inclusive) in NSW and ACT and January 5 in WA where one rider copped a hefty 14...
Signs that light up and display a safety alert and message if you are riding too fast for the corner...
Speeding fines based on Lidar or radar readings are difficult to defend, but not impossible, says NSW traffic and criminal law...
If you think electric motorcycles are quiet and dull, listen to this university-made racer as it heads off to set speed records at the UK Straightliners Land Speed meeting at the weekend. View this post on Instagram 197mph silent assassin. Four new FIM world records, electric motorbike –...
Regional speed limits should be reduced up to 30km/h and riders slugged with a levy to fix rural roads, according...
Despite criticism from motoring organisations and a motorcycle cop being hit by a driver, NSW has extended its rule to...
Brisbane riders who spent Wednesday’s Ekka Holiday riding the famed Mt Glorious Rd may find they have an unwelcome TruCAM speeding fine in the mail in the next couple of weeks. This video was recorded by rider David Englebright, showing police in the bushes using the TruCAM hand-held laser digital camera...
Motorists sometimes inadvertently convict themselves for speeding when they are pulled over by the police, says traffic and criminal law...
Is it time for Australia’s speeding fine system to be overhauled so the rich don’t get away with comparatively light...
Cap motorcycle speeds at 50km/h is one of the more ludicrous suggestions put forward at the first of a series of community road safety forums in regional Victoria this week. The suggestion from an unknown attendee was actually written up on a blackboard among other strategies, such as more driver/rider...
“Life without danger is just no life at all” says a new motorcycle documentary featuring racers Freddie Spencer, Colin Edwards,...
Years of rigid speed enforcement have created a herd mentality that could be just as dangerous as having high-speed lunatics...
A plan to temporarily lower speed limits on regional highway intersections when approaching side-road traffic is detected may not work for motorcycles. The technology has been initially installed at the intersection of Glenelg Highway and Dunkeld-Cavendish Road and Penshurst-Dunkeld Road, near Dunkeld, Victoria, and will be rolled out across the...
Riders are warned they could have their licence suspended in one hit under double demerit points which apply this weekend...
A major road safety summit has suggested speed limits on Australia’s unsealed country road network be reduced from 100km/h to...
The world’s fastest blind rider, Ben Felten, plans to return to Lake Gairdner in 2020 to raise the bar over 300km/h. Team Blind Speed Kawasaki took their 2018 Kawasaki ZX-10R to the South Australian salt flats recently to beat his own world record of 272.596km/h set in 2018. While he...
Riders who believe there is safety in numbers may be in for a shock when the whole group is pulled...
European politicians have voted on a raft of mandatory safety technology in all new vehicles including “black box” recorders, automatic braking and...
Most motorists hate covert speed detection by police, yet they seem to be finding more and more sneaky ways to cover themselves while operation radar units and speed cameras. Gold Coast rider Gary Lynn confronted the cop photographed in the bushes above on the Nerang-Murwillumbah Rd on a Sunday on...
A road safety academic who advocates wire rope barriers, lower speed limits and mandatory hi-vis vests for riders, and alcohol...
Passing lanes make motorists safer with many speeding up to 125km/h to safely pass, yet police continue to set up...
A rider is challenging a speeding fine he says is impossible because it claims he was doing 150% of the posted speed when he was riding uphill around a corner towing an 120kg trailer. Gerard Chee, 61, of Bribie Island, says he can’t remember the last time he copped a speeding...
South Australia Police is temporarily suspending use of the Lidar speed gun and withdrawing 150 speeding fines after three court decisions...
Unlike many speed-alert apps and GPS devices, the new Australian Speedo Minder Pro app alerts riders when they are over the...
What is the point of improving the quality of a road at millions of dollars expense to the taxpayers and ratepayers only to then have the speed limit reduced 33%? That is exactly what has happened on one of our favourite motorcycle routes – Mt Nebo Rd – and it...
Speed cameras in tunnels account for three of the top six sites in Queensland and NSW for speed camera offences....
Future motorcycles and other vehicles may have sensors that read roadside speed limit signs and electronically intervene to limit the...
You can watch Australian rider Ben Felten become the fastest blind man on two wheels when his record-setting run is broadcast on Channel Seven at 8pm on the Sunday Night program (5 August, 2018). Ben broke the previous Guinness World Record of 265.33km/h (164.87mph) for a blind rider by just 1.355km/h...
Burt Munro’s great nephew, Lee Munro, is returning to Bonneville Speed Week on a modified Indian Scout in an attempt to...
Three defendants charged with speeding detected by police on LIDAR guns have had their fines overturned, prompting a call for...
Ripple strips on double white lines and edge lines on two sections of the Oxley Highway have been challenged by local riders as slippery, dangerous and “madness”. However, the Roads and Maritime Services says they will prevent drivers dangerously crossing on to the wrong side of the road and follow complaints...
Despite a 2014 Austroads report finding there are too many speed zones and the frequency of zone changes is too...
Blind Aussie rider Ben Felten is this weekend going for the Guinness World Record of 265.33km/h (164.87mph) for a blind...
A new Monash University survey is asking the public about speed limits, point-to-point speed cameras and a proposal for a 40km/h suburban limit in the ACT. While it may seem a progressive move, the research will be compiled by the Monash University Accident Research Centre which is known for its...
Motorcycle crash statistics cited to reduce speed on the Oxley Highway are flawed, leaving riders wondering how many other crash...
Drivers crossing double white lines is a bigger problem than speeding on the Oxley Highway and other popular motorcycle routes,...
Most riders believe motorcycling is under siege by governments that want to legislate us out of existence under a thin veil of safety. Now Motorcycle Council of NSW treasurer Steve Pearce (pictured above on his Triumph ST Sprint) has vocalised what we all think in his unprecedented attack on the...
Authorities that continue to selectively quote motorcycle crash statistics are perpetrating a scam that endangers vulnerable motorcycle riders. Yes, riders...
You may have seen the above image on social media with concerns that it is a covert speed camera hidden...
A former road designer says “safety has nothing to do” with reducing the speed limits and police and governments can change them with no good reason. The government official cannot be named for job security reasons, but he gave us an example of a recent speed reduction. “The latest one...
As riders anxiously await a speed review of the Oxley Highway, South Australian is slashing eight major highway speeds by...
For those who believe police think there is one rule for them and another for the rest of us comes...
Fifty years after Burt Munro set a speed record at Bonneville, his great nephew, Lee, returned to the famous salt flats on an Indian Scout to crack 200mph. His attempts this week fell short, but the Kiwi still scored a new land speed record of his own. On August 12,...
A specially trained police unit needs to investigate motorcycle crashes as general duties police too easily blame speed, a rider...
Motorists are being urged to slow down to 30km/h in urban areas in the fourth annual United Nations Global Road...
The idea of a Sunshine Coast International TT is morphing into an international hillclimb event on the Oxley Highway, NSW, like the famous Pikes Peak Hillclimb. Organisers Inside Line Events International say they originally intended to run a hillclimb on the Oxley mountain section of the highway and “almost had...
Speeding cars with obscured number plates are much bigger evaders of speed camera fines than motorcyclists without front number plates....
The fate of an Oxley Highway speed zone review may have improved with the appointment of the local member as the...
It appears that Queensland Police are using covert hand-held speed cameras in cars with tinted windows seemingly against their own speed camera policy. These images of a Holden station wagon with tinted windows and an officer using a hand-held radar gun attached to a camera recording device was snapped on...
One of the worrying trends in 2016 was the epidemic of reduced speed zones around the country, many on great...
Organisers of the Save of the Oxley rally to halt the reduction of speed limits on the famed motorcycle route...
Operation Silverstone and Operation Safe Hills have been launched for the spring/summer riding season to specifically target speeding riders, one with air support. Silverstone is based in the Central Hunter, Hunter Valley and Lake Macquarie regions of NSW and Safe Hills in the Adelaide hills. There are also ongoing motorcycle-oriented...