Regional speed limits should be reduced up to 30km/h and riders slugged with a levy to fix rural roads, according...
Austroads makes no mention of lane filtering in its latest report concerned with achieving “safer” speeds in our urban road...
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...
Drivers crossing double white lines is a bigger problem than speeding on the Oxley Highway and other popular motorcycle routes,...
One of the worrying trends in 2016 was the epidemic of reduced speed zones around the country, many on great...
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...
Former Top Gear host and keen Honda motorcycle fan James May has been caught speeding and, rather than paying the...
You may have seen the above image on social media with concerns that it is a covert speed camera hidden...
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...
Burt Munro’s great nephew, Lee Munro, is returning to Bonneville Speed Week on a modified Indian Scout in an attempt to...
As riders anxiously await a speed review of the Oxley Highway, South Australian is slashing eight major highway speeds by...
Speed cameras in tunnels account for three of the top six sites in Queensland and NSW for speed camera offences. Total speeding fine revenue across Australia easily tops $1.1 billion annually and Victoria leads the revenue grab. But Transurban tunnels seem to be among the biggest revenue collectors. In Queensland,...
South Australia Police have released a video of a high-speed motorcycle crash in an effort to vindicate tougher new penalties...
Operation Silverstone and Operation Safe Hills have been launched for the spring/summer riding season to specifically target speeding riders, one...
Is it time for Australia’s speeding fine system to be overhauled so the rich don’t get away with comparatively light fines while working Aussie motorists pay among the highest fines in the world? According to British website GoCompare, Australians rank sixth in the world with the highest fines and 10th...
Unlike many speed-alert apps and GPS devices, the new Australian Speedo Minder Pro app alerts riders when they are over the...
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. SIGN PETITION TO STOP THE DECREASED SPEED ZONES It will join several other great motorcycle roads in Australia with reduced speed limits in an apparent effort to reduce motorcycle crashes....
Queensland Police will target motorcycle speeds after a spike in rider and pillion deaths in the first five months of...
Most motorists hate covert speed detection by police, yet they seem to be finding more and more sneaky ways to...
A petition to review the speed limits on the famed motorcycle road over Mt Glorious behind Brisbane has met a wall of resistance at Parliament House. The petition was started by a group of motorcyclists last September over coffee at the Mount Glorious Cafe (formerly Maialla cafe) and has since...
The world’s fastest blind rider, Ben Felten, plans to return to Lake Gairdner in 2020 to raise the bar over...
Blind Aussie rider Ben Felten is this weekend going for the Guinness World Record of 265.33km/h (164.87mph) for a blind...
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...
Motorcyclist and road safety researcher Ross Blackman (pictured) has waded into our debate last week about whether roadworks speed limits...
For those who believe police think there is one rule for them and another for the rest of us comes...
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...
The fate of an Oxley Highway speed zone review may have improved with the appointment of the local member as the...
“Life without danger is just no life at all” says a new motorcycle documentary featuring racers Freddie Spencer, Colin Edwards,...
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...
Here’s a mobile speed camera unit we would actually like to see, mainly because it is very easy to see as...
Speeding fines based on Lidar or radar readings are difficult to defend, but not impossible, says NSW traffic and criminal law...
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...
A road safety academic who advocates wire rope barriers, lower speed limits and mandatory hi-vis vests for riders, and alcohol...
Riders should have input into more than $35 million in roadworks being planned for one of South East Queensland’s most...
Speeding cars with obscured number plates are much bigger evaders of speed camera fines than motorcyclists without front number plates. A New Zealand authority earlier this year called for fixed and mobile speed cameras to be turned around to photograph the rear of vehicles after noting many motorcyclists evading fines....
Organisers of the Save of the Oxley rally to halt the reduction of speed limits on the famed motorcycle route...
Ripple strips on double white lines and edge lines on two sections of the Oxley Highway have been challenged by...
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...
What is the point of improving the quality of a road at millions of dollars expense to the taxpayers and...
The idea of a Sunshine Coast International TT is morphing into an international hillclimb event on the Oxley Highway, NSW,...
Motorcycle crash statistics cited to reduce speed on the Oxley Highway are flawed, leaving riders wondering how many other crash statistics are also flawed. NSW Roads Minister Melinda Pavey this week announced that speed on 44km of the highway’s mountain section would be reduced from 100km/h to 80km/h from December...
Riders are warned they could have their licence suspended in one hit under double demerit points which apply this weekend...
Repeat high-speed offenders are more likely to hold a motorcycle licence and have a criminal history, according to a Queensland...
Passing lanes make motorists safer with many speeding up to 125km/h to safely pass, yet police continue to set up speed traps in these safe sections of road. Austroads has published a report that found passing lanes have many safety benefits, including perceived safety by motorists, safer operational conditions, and...
Police in all states are conducting annual Christmas/New Year blitzes and using the inevitable high road toll caused by massive...
It appears that Queensland Police are using covert hand-held speed cameras in cars with tinted windows seemingly against their own...
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 –...
Motorists sometimes inadvertently convict themselves for speeding when they are pulled over by the police, says traffic and criminal law...
This dragbike can hit 235mph (378km/h) in 5.8 seconds which is faster than a Formula One car or an F15 jet...
A 22-year-old man wanted for 55 traffic offences including several for speeds of more than 150km/h in Brisbane’s northern suburbs has finally been nabbed. Watch the Queensland Police video below of several occasions where the rider is spotted by police who give up the chase for public safety reasons when...
Future motorcycles and other vehicles may have sensors that read roadside speed limit signs and electronically intervene to limit the...
While some riders may not like the hi-tech TruCAM II radar gun’s ability to more accurately measure speed, the device...
Low speed thresholds are turning motorists, particularly motorcyclists, into dangerous speedo gazers, according to a university study. Using drive simulators, researchers at the University of Western Australia studied 84 drivers to test whether a low speed threshold before a fine was imposed affected their driving performance. The answer was yes! “Our...
Fifty years after Burt Munro set a speed record at Bonneville, his great nephew, Lee, returned to the famous salt...
New Zealand police have admitted that fixed speed cameras have not been operating for almost a year, yet the road toll...
Despite criticism from motoring organisations and a motorcycle cop being hit by a driver, NSW has extended its rule to slow traffic to 40km/h past emergency services. The 12-month trial will be extended to a permanent law on September 26 but with some changes. It will now include tow trucks...
Riders who believe there is safety in numbers may be in for a shock when the whole group is pulled...
A new Monash University survey is asking the public about speed limits, point-to-point speed cameras and a proposal for a...
Many riders clock massive miles/kilometres on their odometer and we want to reward the well-travelled for their efforts with a free Audicator indicator warning system. The idea came to us when Kawasaki sent us a press release about Malcolm Milne of South Australia achieving more than 300,000km on the odometer...