Following a decision in February, the Swedish Motorcyclist’s Association SMC, and many other organizations and companies working with road safety, were shut down from direct access to accident statistics in Strada (Swedish Traffic Accident Data Acquisition). This had major consequences because SMC uses the statistics daily in road safety work. SMC

The British Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) wants motorcycles included in transport plans in the transition from lockdown back to normality. At his moment the government seems to focus on bicycling and walking for those that will be unable to commute by public transport. According to the British government encouraging people to

Parking fees for motorcycles in Stockholm are suspended during the time of the Covid-19 crisis in Sweden This very welcomed change of views on powered-two-wheelers enabling a new cooperation between politicians and bikers, announced  by the chief councillor Daniel Helldén (Green Party) for traffic matters in the Swedish city of Stockholm,

After pressure from British motorcyclists' organizations BMF and MAG (both members of FEMA), Oxfordshire County Council has withdrawn a controversial briefing document that claimed 'Statistical evidence suggests motorcyclists are a danger to themselves'. The document also stated 'Motorbikes are mostly still using fossil fuels to run, meaning they are environmentally unsound,

The Norwegian authorities have allocated 60 million Euro for measures to keep employment up during the corona pandemic. This includes money to make significant improvements to the Norwegian infrastructure. The Norwegian Motorcycle Union (NMCU) - a member of FEMA - is working to ensure that this extraordinary grant for road improvements

The British Motorcyclists Federation (BMF) is seriously concerned by allegations of anti-motorcycle bias in an official document published for public consumption by Oxfordshire County Council. A survey on the council’s proposals for its ‘Local Transport and Connectivity Plan’, which is intended to help plan for changes and growth in the city’s

The British government wants to get rid of motorcycles with an internal combustion engine from 2050 and it wants to redefine how we travel. British motorcyclists’ organization MAG responds to the plans. The British government is developing an ambitious plan to accelerate the decarbonisation of transport. The plan includes achieving zero

Statistics show that Swedish motorcyclists have already reached the Vision Zero goals. The riders have reduced their death toll by 40 percent since 2018 by building their own safety culture. FEMA member SMC has made great efforts over the past years to increase road safety among motorcyclists and to create a

Year after year motorcycles in Sweden are the best performing vehicles in technical inspections. The vehicle that has the least need for a Periodical Technical Inspection (PTI), in terms of failure rate, is the motorcycle. The number of failures has not increased since 2004. In Sweden, motorcycles must be inspected for

German motorcyclists' organizations have to spent a lot of their time and efforts on road closures for motorcycles. And let's face it: these road closures do not only affect German riders, they also affect riders from other countries that love to ride through the beautiful German countryside during their holidays. Road closures