According to the Swedish Riders Organisation (SMC) information in motorcycle helmets can save four lives per year! This week, 65 000 members of the Swedish Motorcyclist Association, SMC, get a Medical Card kit. The Swedish medical card follows the UKs Ambulance Motorcycle Club Crash Card, the Rider Alert scheme in the US with a CRASH […]
Long Forks or False Prophets
11th March 2012
In the 29th February edition of Motorcycle News (MCN), Senior Reporter Steve Farrell led an article entitled “EU targets choppers” with a sub heading of, “Latest EU plans would ban long forks”. Farrell starts the article with, “Choppers could be consigned to history by the latest proposals from Brussels to prevent us modifying our bikes.” […]
FEMA Useless Impact Assessment
29th February 2012
Useless impact assessment reinforces ABS proponents The EU parliamentary committee in charge of the motorcycle type approval regulation rejected the findings of an impact assessment it had ordered previously due to flawed data assessment. Contradicting the Committee’s vote the analysis concluded that mandating ABS for scooters and motorcycles with an engine displacement below 125cc was […]
ACEM Deplores Impact Assessment
28th February 2012
Motorcycle Industry deplores that IMCO impact assessment did not cast any light on the effects of new motorcycle legislation The IMCO Committee rejected today the conclusions of the impact analysis study (IAS) carried out by London Economics on behalf of the European Parliament on the compromise amendments regarding the Regulation of L-category vehicles. Brussels, 28 […]
Regulation Impact Assessment
21st February 2012
The office of Malcolm Harbour has sent out information regarding an Impact Assessment which is on the IMCO (Internal Market and Consumer Protection) website and will be discussed at the next IMCO meeting on the 28th February 2012. The Impact Assessment looked at three measures contained in the European Commission’s proposal for a “Regulation on […]
When MEPs Attack!
20th February 2012
UKIP MEP Marta Andreasen has accused the Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK), and in particular Paddy Tyson, MAG’s Campaign Manager for attacking her stance on the EU proposal for the Approval and market surveillance of two – or three-wheel vehicles and quadricycles regulation proposal, which is that it should be thrown out. According to Ms […]
American-V The Big Debate
9th February 2012
Update on the Big Debate 21st October 2012 We have updated this original article we reported on as it was published in American-V magazine. The update, the subsequent published text in later issues of American-V magazine, includes a right to reply from the Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK) to the original article, a reply to […]
