Norwegian motorcyclists’ association NMCU keeps working on accident reduction by influencing how roads are built and maintained, and by improving each individual motorcyclist’s skills. And all this without motorcyclists being hit by unreasonable or unnecessary restrictions. In Norway the risk of riding a motorcycle has been significantly reduced in recent years.

The Greek parliament has voted in favour of a new law on sustainable urban mobility, which includes making it easier for car drivers to start riding light motorcycles. The new law will allow: Riding a moped (category AM) by drivers who have held a car driving licence (B) for at least

According to a survey conducted by the Spanish motorcyclists’ organization Asociación Mutua Motera (AMM), 65.5% of the motorcyclists surveyed do not agree with the mandatory use of airbags. The Spanish Directorate-General for Traffic, within measures to reduce the accident and severity of its consequences on the motorcyclist collective, is considering the

Motorcyclists’ associations in the United Kingdom are combining forces in the National Motorcyclists Council that was launched on 5 March 2021. The National Motorcyclists Council (NMC) is a new initiative, designed to help bring the UK’s leading motorcycle rider organizations together. The NMC’s fundamental purpose is to represent motorcyclists with a

After more than 20,000 French motorcyclists hit the streets to demand the legalization of filtering between lanes of slow moving or stopped traffic, the government was ready to listen to the bikers. On 20 February 2021, following the end of a filtering experiment, the French motorcyclists' organization FFMC put 20,000 motorcyclists

In an open and positive meeting, the British Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) put the case for motorcycling to Baroness Vere of Norbiton, Parliamentary Undersecretary for State. The Minister offered to help MAG raise the profile of motorcycling. In a statement following the meeting Baroness Vere said: "I thank the representatives of

How do we get more young people to start riding motorcycles? That is the question now that the average age of the Swedish motorcyclists is getting higher and higher. Most people who get a motorcycle licence Sweden are mature adults and not youngsters. This becomes obvious when you look at the

There is no better place to test the performance of motorcycles with ABS on gravel roads than Sweden. One fifth of the Swedish road network are gravel roads, that is 20,200 kilometres. It has become popular to ride on these roads with ‘normal’ bikes, as well as riding them with motorcycles

The Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure accepts that wire rope crash barriers pose a hazard to motorcyclists’ safety. Motorcycle Action Group UK’s Northern Ireland Representative, Martyn Boyd, and MAG UK Director, Ian Churchlow met with officials of the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure (DfI) in July 2020 to discuss MAG’s concerns

Iceland’s motorcyclists’ association BLS - member of FEMA – launched a new campaign to increase motorists’ awareness that motorcyclists are part of the traffic mix. The images used for the campaign show the person behind the helmet. We talked with Steinmar Gunnarsson, BLS´s FEMA representative: “Over the years BLS has, along