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If You Ride a Motorbike or Scooter...
05 March 2009
Whatever you had planned for Tuesday, 31st March@ 3pm cancel it! Meet at Ace Café London 3pm for 4.15pm ride out to Trafalgar Square.
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Bikes in Bus Lanes Victory for Common Sense
07 January 2009
From the 5th of January motorcycles have been granted access to main route bus lanes in London. The adoption of this policy allows riders to see and be seen by other road users, as well as helping motorcycles to improve on their already excellent congestion-busting advantages.
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Ministers Urged to Stop Bike Test Rip-Off
29 September 2008
MAG today called on the Department for Transport to prevent 40,000 new riders from being ripped-off by unjustified increases to test fees. In February of this year, Parliament agreed a 33% increase in the cost of a bike test to cover the costs of a new, longer test from 29 September 2008. Despite not implementing the test as planned, the cost of a motorcycle rider test has increased from £60 to £80.
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New Test Disaster Averted - Motorcycle Lobby Wins U-turn
12 September 2008
Following two years of hard campaigning, the Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) has welcomed the official announcement of an eleventh-hour delay to the introduction of an extended practical test for new motorcycle riders.
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MAG News - Advanced Stop L:ines Ruling & Dangerous Driving Law
22 August 2008
The latest press releases from the Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) which works on behalf of motorcyclists across Britain. MAG is a voluntary organisation, drawing membership from across the whole spectrum of motorcycling. The releases contain news about the cancellation of the Isle of Anglesey Motorcycle Show, a study undertaken on behalf of the Department for Transport about the benefits of allowing motorcyclists to use Advanced Stop Lines (aka. cycle boxes) and a new law to punish careless drivers.
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MAG : Leave our bikes alone
29 July 2008
An international consortium of new technology designers has been brought together by the European Commission to develop new devices capable of informing, or limiting, motorcyclists control over their bikes.
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No Chips For Bikers
17 March 2008
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) abandons proposals to chip motorcycle number plates. The DVLA have announced that they will not be seeking government approval to fit micro chip Electronic Vehicle Identification, (EVI) to motorcycle number plates. The DVLA had embarked on a feasibility study, including field trials, to determine the effectiveness of EVI as a means of combating motorcycle vehicle excise evasion.
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Motorcycle Action Group - Safeguarding Our Future
04 March 2008
The Motorcycle Action Group safeguards the future of motorcycling with practical recommendations to the Parliamentary Transport Select Committee. The Parliamentary Transport Select Committee, chaired by the Honourable Gwyneth Dunwoody MP, is to hold a review of road safety and has invited interested parties to submit evidence. The review is likely to take place in either March or April and will consider what more can be done between now and 2010 when the current targets end, and what considerations should be made for beyond 2010.
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Riders Get To Grips With Manhole Covers
20 February 2008
Carriageway manhole covers, especially on bends, can present a potentially lethal danger to motorcyclists but this could all change if revisions to the European Standard for them, proposed by the UK, is agreed. It is well known that over time some manhole cover surfaces become smooth and polished and if wet, very slippery, but thanks to the work undertaken by the National Motorcycle Council i.e. The British Motorcyclists Federation (BMF), Institute of Highway Incorporated Engineers (IHIE), Motor Cycle Industry Association MCIA, Motorcycle Action Group (MAG) RAC Foundation and Devon County Council, the UK committee working on the revision of European Standard EN124 have agreed unanimously to recommend a minimum ‘polished skid resistance value for manhole covers’.
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Dartford Crossing - Struck by The Barrier
16 February 2008
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK) are proud to have helped negotiate free passage for bikers at the Dartford Crossing, an arrangement that has been in place for a number of years now.
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VED Evasion – The True Figures
14 February 2008
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK) challenged figures released in a recent Parliamentary Committee of Public Accounts report which suggested that motorcycle VED evasion rates were as high as 40%. This headline grabbing figure was picked up by the national media which portrayed motorcyclists as habitual law breakers and VED duty evaders. MAG challenge the claim which it describes as irresponsible in stereotyping motorcyclists as law breakers.
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London Mayor’s Dithering Puts Road User Lives At Risk!!
04 February 2008
The Motorcycle Action Group, (MAG UK), is very concerned that the safety of vulnerable road users is being put at risk by the procrastination of London’s Mayor Ken Livingstone and the blocking by the Mayor’s office of the publication of the ‘Transport for London PTW in Bus Lane Study’. The report was completed in April 2007 and was first due to be published in October 20007, then January 2008. It has still to be released.
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More Misery, More Costs & More Inconvenience to Bikers
27 January 2008
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK) have expressed their serious concerns to the Home Office regarding their proposals to increase, by almost 300%, the statutory charges for the removal, storage and disposal of motorcycles by the police. Under the current arrangements the police can charge £105 for the recovery of a motorcycle considered to be abandoned illegally, dangerously or obstructively parked, or broken down. They can then charge up to £12 a day for storage until the motorcycle is reclaimed by its rightful owner.
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Motorcycle Tax Evasion - Its Not Right
24 January 2008
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK) remain sceptical of the claim in a recent report that 40% of bikers evade paying VED. Anecdotal visual studies carried out by the group at motorcycle events do not reflect anything remotely like this level of non compliance. Unfortunately the media has jumped on this unreliable and suspect headline figure to brand motorcyclists as law breakers.
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MAG Prepares to Defend Motorcycling
09 January 2008
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK) is preparing to defend motorcycling in the forthcoming Parliamentary scrutiny of Road Safety.
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Europe Questions The Role For Motorcycle ‘toys’ On Our Roads
24 December 2007
A leading EU transport “expert” has questioned whether there is any place for motorcycles on Europe’s roads.
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Isle of Wright MCPT
04 December 2007
The Motorcycle Action Group is co-ordinating a campaign to retain the Isle of Wight motorcycle test centre. Motorcyclists on the Isle of Wight will face a long and expensive journey to the mainland in order to take their motorcycle licence test under plans to abolish the islands only motorcycle test centre. This has come about due to the new motorcycle riding test which comes into force in October 2008 which will require purpose built off road test centres.
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Europe Bins 'Bright' Idea
04 December 2007
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK) welcomes the decision by the European Commission (EC) to scrap plans to enforce all vehicles to have their dipped beam headlights on during daytime.
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Bikes Banned From The Park
09 November 2007
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK) express grave concerns at the North Wales police proposal to consider banning motorcycles from the National Park.
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Live To Ride - Ride To Live – Think!
13 October 2007
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK) says the government’s motorcycle “Think!” campaign for motorcyclists hits the right spot for tips and facts for urban motorcycling. The focus of this latest urban campaign concentrates on motorcyclists perfecting their skills and changing the way they ride with some thought provoking facts and tips that could help riders avoid an accident.
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