More RWT Unrest

Back in July we picked up that the Belgium riders organisation FBMC Fédération Belge des Motards en Colère) were organising a demonstration on the 14th September against the proposals contained in the European Commissions Road Worthiness Testing package. Back then we wrote to the FBMC: “Bonjour and please excuse my lack of French. At Right […]

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PTW Sales Down

ACEM – who represent the Motorcycle Industry in Europe have released a market update for July 2013. The overall news on PTW (Powered Two Wheeler) sales sees a  -15% drop, which ACEM say is a persisting degradation of sales. Apparently this is due to Italy’s negative results of (-31.5%), although ACEM say, “The <1000cc engine […]

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Alternative Energy News

The FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) recently published the latest edition of its Alternative Energy Newsletter. The newsletter reports on “all things” of an alternative fuel nature with regards motorcycling and is the publication of the FIM Alternative Energy Working Group (AEWG). The mission of the AEWG is, “To make motorcycle racing greener by integrating […]

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Autonomous Driving

The Sarte Project (Safe Road Trains for the Environment), which we have only picked up details of recently, was a European Commission funded research into vehicle platoons. A vehicle platoon is a road train with vehicles, where vehicles are autonomously following a manually driven lead vehicle, driven by a professional driver. The project had seven […]

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Throw It Out?

In May this year, the Irish Houses of the Oireachtas (Dáil Éireann (House of Representatives) and Seanad Éireann (the Senate) Joint Committee on Transport and Communications sent its opinion to the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union regarding the Road Worthiness Testing (RWT) proposal. In reference to motorcycling the opinion, “Is of […]

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Phil’s “Good Idea”

On the BMF’s rider magazine website, Right To Ride debates with Phil Bennion on his RWT amendments. Rider Magazine published a summary of our article entitled – “Down to the Wire” which we published on the 28th June 2013: “Down to the Wire is a round up of the issues and articles put up on […]

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Irish Data Refusal

At Right To Ride we believe that this joint statement from the European & UK Branches of IAATI (International Association of Auto Theft Investigators) might be of interest to Irish riders and indeed for riders across Europe. The statement is in relation to the refusal of the Irish Police to release data on all stolen […]

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