Motorists are being urged to slow down to 30km/h in urban areas in the fourth annual United Nations Global Road...
Speed limits on parts of the famed Oxley Highway will decrease from next Monday, September 19, 2016, after a road safety audit....
Are drones the new tool in the police arsenal to clamp down on speeding and other traffic infringements? Veteran racer Marty Thompson believes they could be after a riding partner witnessed Victorian Police testing drone technology on the Great Ocean Road, now known as “Australian Crawl” due to over policing...
You may have seen the above image on social media with concerns that it is a covert speed camera hidden...
Despite a 2014 Austroads report finding there are too many speed zones and the frequency of zone changes is too...
Austroads has published a major study into speeding which presumes that the public wants “safer speeds” that are lower speeds. The whole premise for the 161-page report seems to be that lower vehicle speeds means less risk. It recommends a wide range of campaign strategies including reducing speed limits, more...
European politicians have voted on a raft of mandatory safety technology in all new vehicles including “black box” recorders, automatic braking and...
If you think electric motorcycles are quiet and dull, listen to this university-made racer as it heads off to set...
South Australia Police have released a video of a high-speed motorcycle crash in an effort to vindicate tougher new penalties for extreme speed offences. They say the video was released at the request of the rider’s wife. “This motorcyclist filmed his own crash – the crash that put him in...
Blind Aussie rider Ben Felten is this weekend going for the Guinness World Record of 265.33km/h (164.87mph) for a blind...
The world’s fastest blind rider, Ben Felten, plans to return to Lake Gairdner in 2020 to raise the bar over...
Three defendants charged with speeding detected by police on LIDAR guns have had their fines overturned, prompting a call for riders to challenge any speeding fines they believe are incorrect. South Australian Ride to Review spokesman Tim Kelly says the SA Supreme Court judgements indicate that the handheld guns can...
A major road safety summit has suggested speed limits on Australia’s unsealed country road network be reduced from 100km/h to...
Speeding cars with obscured number plates are much bigger evaders of speed camera fines than motorcyclists without front number plates....
South Australia Police is temporarily suspending use of the Lidar speed gun and withdrawing 150 speeding fines after three court decisions found police can misuse the handheld guns. The three defendants charged with speeding detected by police on Lidar guns had their fines overturned. Now, SAPOL is temporarily withdrawing Lidar guns...
Drivers crossing double white lines is a bigger problem than speeding on the Oxley Highway and other popular motorcycle routes,...
Speeding fines based on Lidar or radar readings are difficult to defend, but not impossible, says NSW traffic and criminal law...
Riders are warned they could have their licence suspended in one hit under double demerit points which apply this weekend in NSW and the ACT for the Queen’s Birthday (June 8-10, 2019). It follows a hefty 14 demerit points and $1200 fine handed out to a Harley-Davidson rider over the...
This dragbike can hit 235mph (378km/h) in 5.8 seconds which is faster than a Formula One car or an F15 jet...
Signs that light up and display a safety alert and message if you are riding too fast for the corner...
One of the worrying trends in 2016 was the epidemic of reduced speed zones around the country, many on great motorcycle roads. The two high-profile examples were the reduction of the open speed limit on a Northern Territory highway to 130km/h and the planned reduction of speed limits in several...
Most riders believe motorcycling is under siege by governments that want to legislate us out of existence under a thin...
Is it time for Australia’s speeding fine system to be overhauled so the rich don’t get away with comparatively light...
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...
Brisbane riders who spent Wednesday’s Ekka Holiday riding the famed Mt Glorious Rd may find they have an unwelcome TruCAM...
Double demerit points apply from Friday (20 December 2019) in NSW, the ACT and Western Australia, affecting licensed riders not only...
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...
Most motorists hate covert speed detection by police, yet they seem to be finding more and more sneaky ways to...
Former Top Gear host and keen Honda motorcycle fan James May has been caught speeding and, rather than paying the...
Austroads makes no mention of lane filtering in its latest report concerned with achieving “safer” speeds in our urban road network. The 104-page report titled “Achieving Safe System Speeds on Urban Arterial Roads: Compendium of Good Practice” features a range of suggestions, but none mentions how effective lane filtering is...
Low speed thresholds are turning motorists, particularly motorcyclists, into dangerous speedo gazers, according to a university study. Using drive simulators,...
A plan to temporarily lower speed limits on regional highway intersections when approaching side-road traffic is detected may not work...
Here’s a mobile speed camera unit we would actually like to see, mainly because it is very easy to see as the UK vans are brightly coloured and not covert. In Australia, fixed speed cameras are well signposted. Anyone caught speeding by fixed speed cameras is simply not paying enough attention and probably...
A new Monash University survey is asking the public about speed limits, point-to-point speed cameras and a proposal for a...
Motorcycle crash statistics cited to reduce speed on the Oxley Highway are flawed, leaving riders wondering how many other crash...
Authorities that continue to selectively quote motorcycle crash statistics are perpetrating a scam that endangers vulnerable motorcycle riders. Yes, riders represent a higher proportion of the crash statistics than their number, but the trend for crashes is actually going down. However, police, authorities, road safety Nazis and media are conning...
Repeat high-speed offenders are more likely to hold a motorcycle licence and have a criminal history, according to a Queensland...
Burt Munro’s great nephew, Lee Munro, is returning to Bonneville Speed Week on a modified Indian Scout in an attempt to...
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,...
Riders who believe there is safety in numbers may be in for a shock when the whole group is pulled...
Despite criticism from motoring organisations and a motorcycle cop being hit by a driver, NSW has extended its rule to...
The fate of an Oxley Highway speed zone review may have improved with the appointment of the local member as the new NSW Roads and Maritime Services Minister. “Save the Oxley” petition organiser Ken Healey believes Member for Oxley Melinda Pavey is prepared to negotiate on speed limit changes which include...
Passing lanes make motorists safer with many speeding up to 125km/h to safely pass, yet police continue to set up...
A petition to review the speed limits on the famed motorcycle road over Mt Glorious behind Brisbane has met a...
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...
It appears that Queensland Police are using covert hand-held speed cameras in cars with tinted windows seemingly against their own...
Operation Silverstone and Operation Safe Hills have been launched for the spring/summer riding season to specifically target speeding riders, one...
A specially trained police unit needs to investigate motorcycle crashes as general duties police too easily blame speed, a rider group suggests. The Motorcycle Council of NSW (MCCNSW) says proper crash investigation would reveal the real causes of motorcycle crashes and help prevent further accidents and deaths. The call for...
Queensland Police will target motorcycle speeds after a spike in rider and pillion deaths in the first five months of...
Queensland Police have charged a man with dangerous operation of a motorcycle after the night rider was videoed riding at more...
Motorcyclist and road safety researcher Ross Blackman (pictured) has waded into our debate last week about whether roadworks speed limits are appropriate. Ross works with the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q) at the Queensland University of Technology in the areas of both motorcycle safety and...
A rider is challenging a speeding fine he says is impossible because it claims he was doing 150% of the posted...
Riders should have input into more than $35 million in roadworks being planned for one of South East Queensland’s most...
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...
A former road designer says “safety has nothing to do” with reducing the speed limits and police and governments can...
A 22-year-old man wanted for 55 traffic offences including several for speeds of more than 150km/h in Brisbane’s northern suburbs...
Organisers of the Save of the Oxley rally to halt the reduction of speed limits on the famed motorcycle route have declared Saturday’s event a success. However, the outcome for the speed zones is still in the hands of the Roads and Maritime Services and won’t be known until next month....
Regional speed limits should be reduced up to 30km/h and riders slugged with a levy to fix rural roads, according...
Police in all states are conducting annual Christmas/New Year blitzes and using the inevitable high road toll caused by massive...
Years of rigid speed enforcement have created a herd mentality that could be just as dangerous as having high-speed lunatics in our midst. Over the past 20 years, traffic in our nation has been beaten into submission by the heavy handed use of speed cameras and police patrols. The road...