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MAG will challenge neglect of motorcycles in policy at Highways UK event.
MAG will speak at this year’s Highways UK conference. The joint presentation with Professor Mathew Humphrey of the University of Nottingham is titled ‘The forgotten mode? The neglect of motorcycles within transport policy.’
MAG’s Director of Campaigns & Political Engagement, Colin Brown, will deliver a joint presentation to delegates at this year’s Highways UK Conference, together with Professor Mathew Humphrey of the University of Nottingham. The presentation will reveal the level of neglect that motorcycling is subject to in Local Transport Plans (LTPs).
The Highways UK event brings together the people responsible for planning, developing, managing, maintaining, and future-proofing the nation's roads networks. The two-day conference is held at the NEC. Doors open at 9am on Wednesday 16th October.
Academic analysis of over 80% of Local Transport Plans in England has for the first time enabled a quantification of the problem. Motorcycling is not mentioned at all in one in four LTPs. Overall, the most discussed transport mode is cycling. For every one mention of motorcycling there are twenty references to cycling.
Qualitative analysis shows that attitudes and approaches to motorcycling are confused and inconsistent, betraying a poor understanding of the needs of motorcyclists and the opportunities that the mode can deliver for the UK transport system.
Colin Brown said:
“The research project has created empirical evidence to back up what I have been instinctively aware of for many years. There are opportunities being missed because of a lack of understanding and interest in what motorcycling has to offer. Back in the 1920s there were twice as many motorcycles registered in the UK compared with cars. We are unlikely to see a return to those proportions of motorcycle use, but we hope that by ending the current neglect of consideration of the mode, we can return to a healthy respect for, and understanding of how motorcycles can help deliver a sustainable UK transport system.”
Professor Humphrey said:
“Government guidance to Local Transport Authorities advises that they should consider ‘all modes’ of transport in the planning process. There is, however, one mode that is frequently overlooked, or scarcely considered, in transport planning in the UK, and this is the motorcycle. Indeed, authorities appear confused over what constitutes a ‘mode’ of transport at all. All this means that the specific needs of motorcycle riders, and the environmental and other benefits that a modal shift towards motorcycles might offer, are usually ignored in UK transport planning.”
If you have never been a MAG member, have let your membership lapse, or are thinking you need to save some money by not renewing this year, we would love you to join, re-join or stay with us. If, like us, you are passionate about motorcycling, want to see motorcycling continue in the future, and want to preserve all that you love about it, we hope it will be an easy choice to make. MAG’s strength is in numbers. The riding community can demonstrate strength when it unites. If you want to say you played your part to defend motorcycling, please… join MAG today at: mag-uk.org/mot... or by calling 03300 560 886

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13 окт 2024

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@DavidChaffe 2 дня назад

Are a member since 1979 to prescent .It's a great life with M.A.G.

@AlexOnABoat 2 дня назад

I'm sure we've all heard that taking a motorcycle test is expensive and that's why young people are put off motorcycling but I'm not convinced that's the case. DVSA research shows that people need around 46 driving lessons to pass their test. At an average cost of £27 per lesson this equates to £1242 plus the cost of the Theory and Practical tests. Compare that to the cost of a five day Direct Access motorcycle course at about £1000 and there's a not insignificant saving. Of course, there's the fact that a young person will have to take multiple tests, but this is often misrepresented, and it's perfectly possible for a young person to get on a motorcycle aged 17 and by 19 be riding a perfectly capable machine having taken only one test. How? Start with a 125cc machine and a CBT at 17. When the CBT needs renewing after 2 years, take the Theory test and Modules 1&2 on a machine between 20 & 35KW and gain a full A2 motorcycling licence. Of course, the rider is still restricted to motorcycles producing 35KW or less, but with 400-600cc bikes springing up in all categories from the likes of Triumph, Royal Enfield CFMoto and many more there's a great choice of perfectly capable machines on the market today that should be cheaper to buy and cheaper to insure and still give as many smiles per mile. Yes, it may be ridiculous that someone can do their car test in a Nissan Micra and be driving a Ferrari the next day but in practise unless Daddy is a multimillionaire that's not going to happen, the costs alone restrict a young person to a moderately powered car. This doesn't apply to motorcycles in the same way, for less than the price of a secondhand Micra a young person can buy, if not easily insure, a motorcycle that will spit them into a hedge quicker than you can say Kawasaki, so restricted licensing makes sense. What we need is a shift in the mindset of the average biker, the motorcycle media in particular and even the manufacturers away from the idea that big is always best, that motorcycling is all about speed and power. We need to start talking about the freedoms that two wheels brings no matter what the engine size, to start promoting smaller capacity motorcycles not as beginner bikes but as perfectly viable machines. No one describes a VW Golf as a beginner car, no one says you're not a proper driver unless you're behind the wheel of an Aston Martin, we need as motorcyclists to start welcoming machines of all levels as equal, and sharing that actually it's perfectly possible to get on the saddle of a very capable machine for less than it costs to get behind the wheel of a car.

@750triton 2 дня назад

£27 a lesson? I think you need to at least double that. The average number of lessons for a car when I took mine in 1990 was 12. My sons mates at college are paying around £4-5,000 for their first year in a 1.2 hatchback. My son paid £940 first year, which dropped to £400 for second year on a 125. A2 test, including bike hire and the instructor riding it there was £190. Figures not to be sniffed at. He bought a 600 Bandit for £750 and restrictor kit for £40 and he's still quids in before car lad has even bought his car

@danglebum День назад

I agree with Alex, you are spot on with your assessment, there is an obsession in the UK for litre sports bikes of which most will spend their time on less than 50% throttle. Some of the best bikes I had were 400 and 500cc machines. More than enough for our roads and still faster than most GTIs of the day

@AlexOnABoat День назад

@750triton maybe lessons were longer back in the day. But you've made the point even better, with practice on a CBT and a 125 it should be possible to get an A2 licence for well under the price of a driving licence, then get a cheap bike for less than a car and pay far less for insurance. The question is, how do we get this over to people when the industry still seems to be obsessed with POWER-R-R?

@AubreyHill-km3cw 8 часов назад

@@danglebumAnd possibly only 10% of the year riding them too.

@williamhuxley 2 дня назад

Unfortunately there's a mindset of certain motorcyclists who 'enjoy' a good winge but prefer other people to spend time and effort championing the cause and actually put their hand in their pockets. When you think what you get in the magazine alone, the annual subscription is more than worth it. It would also be helpful if Government made it cheaper and easier to obtain a licence. It's ludicrous to think a young car driver can go straight from passing a test to theoretically drive a supercar. We need a good dose of commonsense, an attribute sadly lacking these days.

@steve00alt70 2 дня назад

We need the American style licence. If it is easier to get a bike licence than a car then more people will start buying them up.

@grast961 День назад

Huge and ever increasing insurance costs for young riders, at 21 and a full “A” licence my son found that most insurance companies wouldn’t insure him for a 700cc bike at 23 even though he had a full car licence since 17 and full no claims on both bikes and car insurance. Motorcycle dealers closing across the country and over complicated electronics are playing a major role in the demise of the motorcycle.

@brettlha 2 дня назад

Thoughtful and valuable video as usual, thanks for your hard work. But by the way, which way are your mirrors pointing!?

@Nooziterp1 2 дня назад

Yes I wondered about the mirrors. Mirrors are for seeing what is behind you. Positioned like that they are useless.

@philhawley1219 День назад

@@Nooziterp1 The camera is using a wide perspective lens which distorts the image towards the edge of the picture. Look at the way the street lights look so bent as he rides down the road.

@AubreyHill-km3cw 7 часов назад

Something that troubles me and is having greater effect than any legislation or promotion of motorcycling is the alarming rate at which motorcycle dealers are closing nation wide.

@thewonderer8315 2 дня назад

We need proper ministers 😮

@fabianmckenna8197 День назад

With regard to diminishing motorcycle use,............ In the 80's the streets were full of despatch riders with traffic lights being meeting up places as we roared off to our next jobs. In the following decades, the number of companies dwindled with the advent of the internet destroying the whole point of immediate delivery. Nowadays the streets are full off electric bicycles delivering pizza, burgers and shopping........ No licence, insurance or special gear required.

@davetdowell День назад

Sorry, but I can't support any organisation that did what you did to the riding community when you supported the licensing changes, that very specifically are a deterrent to anyone taking up riding.

@AubreyHill-km3cw 7 часов назад

Then to make amends could you write to your MP and state your case for support of motorcycle promotion as possibly the only viable personal transport means, elevating congestion, reducing pollution. You know the things that us riders know and politicians don't. That would be a great help. Ta.

@davetdowell 6 часов назад

@@AubreyHill-km3cw Happily, just after you all explain to us all how you ever believed making riders pay the same fee for the same test three times over would improve rider safety? Or maybe you'd like a more current recommendation, explain how restricting CBTs to only two (CBT and CBT+) will encourage people to take up riding motorcycles. To the rest of us it just looks like you're all in bed with the DVSA in trying to discourage people from riding bikes. Ta.