Heatwave conditions are bad enough for riders, but moving slowly in heavy city traffic makes it so much more important...
Just because you are riding a cruiser doesn’t mean you have to find a detour when the road turns to...
Some 1500 Aussie riders are now better prepared to help at a crash site thanks to the First Aid for Motorcyclists (FAFM) course which has just completed a lap of Australia. FAFM Motorcycle Accident Management founders Roger Fance and Tracy Hughes had been presenting their specially tailored course around the Sydney...
First Aid For Motorcyclists course organisers say they are often asked whether it is ok for a first-aider to give...
(Share the Road sponsored post for our North American readers) The US Motorcycle Safety Foundation states that more than half...
https://youtu.be/zxheOM79cdc This video reminds riders to approach flooded roads with caution as flooding is expected to continue across four eastern states and South Australia over the next few weeks. The above comical, but serious, video comes from Mumbai, India, where four days of constant rain has flooded many roads. NSW, Victoria and southern...
Riders can suffer from dangerous sunburn on their faces – even in winter and even in full-face helmets – unless...
We all enjoy going hard some times, but if you are an over-committed rider, you leave no margin for error...
A Bundaberg rider says he probably owes his life to a $290 Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon or EPIRB after crashing his Honda 1200X Crossrunner adventure bike in bull dust in north Queensland. Mick Groth, 52, urges every rider to buy an EPIRB, as does the Royal Flying Doctor Service which attends a...
Contributed post on How to improve your overtaking (for our North American readers) Risk-taking has been singled out as the factor...
Expert rider training company, motoDNA, has devised a special cruiser course being held at Lakeside training centre in Queensland on June...
Riders heading into the Outback should be aware of the dangers of hitting kangaroos, says the Royal Flying Doctor Service whose planes have even hit them. “The roo problem is significant as they come to the edges of the road to graze in the current drought conditions,” a spokeswoman for the RFDS...
One of the world’s leading motorcycle adventure tour companies, Ferris Wheels, has joined with professional motorcycle training company motoDNA to...
There were no training courses for riders when I began riding, so we learnt a lot of misguided motorcycle myths...
It would seem the simplest of processes to mount a motorbike, but there are quite a few points to note. I only became aware of these after observing a Honda Australia Rider Training learner course and being warned by a police officer for my “bicycle mount”. The first point to...
A wide corner entry, late apex and shallow exit is the safest recipe for every corner when riding on the...
Returned riders are those who had got a motorcycle licence as a teenager or twentysomething, then stopped riding while they...
By MotoDNA Motorcycle Academy director of coaching Mark McVeigh It’s been happening around the world for decades and after recent trials in Sydney lane filtering is set to be introduced into NSW soon with Queensland likely to follow. (Meanwhile, the Victorian Labor Party supports it, but the Victorian Government spitefully...
Getting back on the “steel horse” again after a serious crash is considered either brave, stupid or too difficult for...
You don’t need a high visibility vest to become more visible on the road, says the Motorcycle Riders Association of Western Australia....
The Dutch Reach is a simple technique of opening a car door that could save motorcyclists filtering through traffic from being “doored”. It should be mandated in driving tests as it is in Holland where it has been used for 50 years. While the incidence of dooring is more common...
Riding a motorcycle actually burns calories, but there is much more you can do to be a fitter and better...
The Goldwing World Facebook page published the photograph below warning about all the blind spots around a truck. Allegedly all...
Florida woman Jennifer St Clair, 33, was killed when she was run over by several cars after she fell off a motorcycle pillion seat on her first date with the rider. Florida Highway Patrol are not sure of the details of the incident last weekend and are calling for witnesses....
Once moving, a heavy motorcycle doesn’t feel so big, but at slow speeds and in tight spots, it can be...
A new study has found that one of the most common motorcycle crashes is riders running into the rear end...
Two riders were injured in separate crashes with stray cattle over the weekend, promoting us to reissue our warning to riders now exploring the country after the lockdown measures have eased in some states. On Sunday (4 May 2020) a rider hit a bull at Wetheron north of Gayndah, Central...
Rear-enders like the one in the video below, are one of the most common forms of accident for motorcycles, but...
Insurance hurdles have held up the start of a volunteer riders group acting as first responders to injured motorcycle riders...
It is a Sunday afternoon at our house and the V8s are on the TV. My friend Michelle has come over to watch the races with us as her husband is a race engineer with one of the teams so she likes to have someone to watch it with. We...
(Contributed post) No one ever plans to get into an accident, but unfortunately, accidents do happen and it pays to...
A police video that warns about the dangers of riding while tired has won a safety award. But there’s a...
Most riders have experienced aggressive, inconsiderate, rude, uneducated, distracted, dangerous and plain incompetent drivers on the road, but there is no point in road rage. Motorcyclists are vulnerable road users and in road rage situations, we can often come off second-best. In an incident on April 13 at 5.40pm on...
Blind corners are among the most dangerous places for motorcyclists to ride, obviously because of the limited vision ahead. Corners...
(Sponsored post) There are a lot of people in this world who love riding a bike, but to enjoy the...
Women’s-only riding courses and basic mechanics courses could encourage more women to take up riding, according to women riders. These are two suggestions from women riders I interviewed today in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. The question arose a couple of days ago after I published a story about a Harley-Davidson...
Motorcycle riders often talk about the apex of a corner, but there are actually several apexes in a corner you...
The recent arrest of two QRide instructors for issuing motorcycle licences and 13 falsely licensed riders confirms the system is...
We are bound to put on a bit of Christmas “pudding” over the coming holiday season, but did you know you can actually lose weight while riding your motorbike? It seems strange because most riding is a sedentary and social recreation. However, an 80kg rider will burn 40 more calories an hour riding...
Just how loud is your motorcycle helmet and what damage is it doing to your ears? Medical authorities tell us...