Lisa is a Swedish girl who has just turned 24 and thus also reached the age requirement for driving A bikes. Lisa suffered a stroke when she was two years old, which left her with permanent muscle and nerve injuries on her left side. Through extensive training with the support
Opinion pieces
Acoustic cameras: do we want big brother to measure motorcycle sound?
New on our streets: ‘acoustic cameras’ or sound enforcement cameras, a combination of several microphones and a camera, designed to register and fine vehicles that produce excessive noise. When the sound equipment measures a sound level that is over the limit and recognizes the source (that’s why it has to have
Is motorcycling expensive?
According to a recently published study for the European Commission, motorcycles are by far the most expensive way of road transport for our society. FEMA's Dolf Willigers questions the research. So if we ask 'is motorcycling expensive?', don’t look at your own motorcycle and your own wallet now. This is not
Will electric vehicles really take over any time soon?
This summer the automotive websites suddenly exploded with articles about the fall-out of the Volkswagen diesel scandal: Daimler had a massive recall of diesel cars, cities and even countries announced that in ten to fifteen years they would only admit electric vehicles. India, with three million new vehicles every year,
‘The motor vehicle tax regime in the UK creates a failure of trust’
MAG UK director Ian Churchlow wrote an opinion piece on the motorcycle taxation system in the United Kingdom. Ian Churchlow is also MAG UK's delegate to FEMA. My friend Andy and I were discussing the concept of fairness when it comes to the governments’ environmental taxation policy on motor vehicles. Our conversation
Will self-driving cars see motorcycles?
Motorcycle safety and accidents in Europe
In recent years, about 25,000 motorcyclists (m/f) have participated in surveys about motorcycle safety and accidents commissioned by FEMA and its Dutch member organization MAG. This is a summary report by Harold de Bock (MAG NL). Subjects include: How dangerous is it to ride a motorcycle in the various individual European
Olaf Biethan: ‘I ride an electric motorcycle to work every day’
Marchel Bulthuis: ‘The future of motorcycling is electric’
More and more motorcycle manufacturers are building bikes that use ‘alternative fuels’ and electric motorcycles could be the future if we want to keep riding without using fossil fuels and without polluting our environment. To find out more about electric motorcycles, FEMA talked to Marchel Bulthuis, a Dutch importer of a