Latest News

MEDIA RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, 9 August 2010

Office workers, mums, dads, motorcycles and scooters
to converge on Parliament.

On that day, at 12 noon, the street in front of the NSW Parliament will be awash with motorcycle and scooter riders of all ages who will have gathered to show parliamentarians their disgust at the blatant cash-grab that has become the Compulsory Third Party (CTP) scheme under the Keneally government.

View full article here

MEDIA RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NSW GOVERNMENT FAILS THE STATE’S MOTORCYCLISTS ONCE AGAIN
21 July 2010

With the arrival of new mobile speed cameras, and the RTA’s proposed new 4km/h tolerance limit for all speeding offences, it is time to take an objective look at the facts the speed-camera-revenue-addicted Keneally government is not telling us about motorcycles.

View full article here

MEDIA RELEASE

22 June 2010

The Motorcycle Council of NSW (MCC of NSW) has today described the planned increases in motorcycle CTP premiums from July 1st, as further evidence of the failure of Governments to recognise motorcycles as a unique and independent road user group.

Whilst the MCC of NSW understands that changes to the old CTP system were necessary, and even worked with the Motor Accidents Authority (MAA) on these changes, the MCC of NSW has not been provided with any evidence that those drivers or riders causing CTP claims, can justify such extreme increases in prices in some classifications.

View full article here

Solid result for motorcycle sales in 2009

Jan 11, 2010

Official figures released by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) show that 115,981 motorcycles, scooters and all-terrain vehicles were sold last year – a decrease of 13.6 per cent (18,298 units) over 2008.

“Given the circumstances, this is a very solid result,” FCAI Chief Executive Andrew McKellar said.

“The market has come off a very high base over the previous year, so the industry has certainly stood up well to the economic challenges,” he said.

“In fact, this is the fourth highest annual sales result on record and was achieved in tough economic circumstances,” Mr McKellar said.

“Some brands actually increased sales and deserve congratulations for that,” he said.

View full article here

Riders in NSW

As of June 2009,

In NSW we have

  • 300,000 active or latent riders
  • 162,000 registered motorcycles
  • 114,000 unregistered off-road motorcycles
  • 480,000 motorcycle licenses held by residents

The Federated Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) is the motorcycle manufacturers organisation and their website presents a wealth of information relating to sales growth of motorcycles in Australia Profile of the Australian Motorcycle Industry

FCAI note off-road motorcycles at around 85% of registered motorcycle numbers. Our estimate is more conservative at around 70%.

Data quality issues arise from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ceasing collection of sales and registration data. Government reliance on industry sales data has led to discrepancies.

However, the overall fleet or registered motorcycles has expanded in NSW by over one third in the past 5 years.

In their report on a survey of riders over 30 years of age, Haworth et al concluded that 30% of those with a motorcycle license would cease riding and never ride again.
Haworth, N. Mulvihill, C. Symmons, M., 2002, Motorcycling after 30 MUARC

The population of riders is a rotating pool of those who give up riding for certain periods of time and then re-bike. Establishing a mortgage or having children are typical life events that cause riders to leave, then later resume riding.

The motorcycle fleet is expanding rapidly in response to environmental, congestion and economic factors.

Yet, motorcycles are not included in Transport Planning and are still treated as a social problem to be excluded from society, or at best, tolerated with minimal concessions.

It's time for the NSW Government to grow up.