French lane splitting experiment leads to more accidents

A lane splitting experiment showed 'disappointing' results, according to road safety experts, but they see the need for a second, more in-depth experiment. A five-year experiment in 11 French departments, allowing motorcyclists to filter between lanes of slow moving or stopped traffic, will end on Sunday 31 January 2021. Filtering -

‘Mandatory motorcycle inspections do not improve road safety’

There is no evidence that the technical state of motorcycles plays a significant role in accidents, but still some members of the European parliament want to periodically inspect every bike in Europe, thinking it will improve road safety. In 2014 the Periodic Roadworthiness Tests Directive (2014/45/EU) came into force. This directive

Swedish riders: ‘ABS brakes on motorcycles are superior on gravel’

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

MAG UK discuss dangerous barriers with N-Ireland minister

Picture: Wim Taal

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

Presidents new year’s address

I think it is fair to say the last year will have been a very different experience to what we expected at the start, and I’m sure we have all had better years. Since March life as we knew it came to a halt for most of us. Obviously COVID-19

New Icelandic campaign: do you know who´s behind the helmet?

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

Success: MAG UK & London will review motorcyclists’ safety

MAG UK claims that poor road design is partly to blame for the recent rise in motorcyclist fatalities in London. Motorcyclist fatalities in London have risen by more than 40% over the past two years, from 22 in 2018 to 31 in 2019. Provisional figures for 2020 show no decline despite

Teaching motorcycles to communicate

In an effort to improve road safety for motorcyclists, a number of motorcycle manufacturers are co-operating to connect motorcycles with other vehicles and infrastructure. In the Connected Motorcycle Consortium (CMC) motorcycle manufacturers BMW, Honda, KTM and Yamaha work together to develop new standards and techniques to connect motorcycles with other vehicles

What will it be: electric power or internal combustion engine?

Are we witnessing the end of motorcycles with combustion engines or do they still have a future, now that several national governments have indicated that they will ban the sale of new vehicles with an internal combustion engine in the near future? In this blog FEMA’s Dolf Willigers explores whether the

‘No British ban on bikes with combustion engines’

British motorcyclists' organization MAG has received confirmation that motorcycles are not on the government's list of petrol and diesel vehicles that can not be sold from 2030. In the United Kingdom the government has announced that they will end the sale of petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030. The

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