Motorcycle Safety Gets a Royal Seal of Approval UK Paramedic and Secretary General of the UK Ambulance Motorcycle Club, Ian Burrell was rewarded for his services to motorcycle safety in the British New Years Honors List. An MBE is an order of merit within the British honors system and only a few are awarded at […]
ACEM News Dec 2013
21st December 2013
ACEM the European Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers has just published the latest edition of its newsletter. As would be expected, Jacques Compagne, ACEM Secretary General, in his introductory editorial, mentions how the industry is coping financially, not just in the European market but in the Global market as well “ACEM reported encouraging signals coming from […]
SHARP Wins Awards
27th November 2013
SHARP – The Helmet Safety Scheme has won two prestigious road safety awards – the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award and the 2013 FIM (Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme) Road Safety Award. The SHARP testing programme was developed by the Department For Transport (DfT) in Great Britain and provides motorcyclists with two strands of information […]
How Many Devices!
4th November 2013
A You Tube video from the FBMC – the Belgian Federation of Angry Bikers – highlights in a “comical” way how many devices can be used, to “not” drive with full attention on the road and to other vehicles! The video – see below – is in French, however sometimes actions speak louder than words! […]
Sustainable2Wheels Success!
27th September 2013
Last week’s Sustainable2Wheels event organised by ETRA (European Twowheel Retailers’ Association) at the heart of the European Parliament in Brussels, has been hailed a great success! The event was organised for the fourth time during European Mobility Week on the esplanade of the European Parliament, positioned in the right place for European policymakers to take […]
PTW Sales Down
29th August 2013
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 […]
Irish Data Refusal
18th July 2013
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 […]
