Minutes of a Motorcycle Addict

Igjen vaier forslaget om å påby gul vest på MC-førere. Denne gang kommer forslaget fra en MC-fører som synser om synlighet.

Harald Fredriksen, Wings of Rogaland. Foto: Privat

Your comments on this blog made headline news in the largest broadcaster in Norway! The verdict where a car driver was acquitted after running down a motorcyclist is now appealed.

The headline reads "International motorcyclist protest against verdict".
I'm the talking ...

European motorcycle manufacturers cries for their loss in sales. So why don’t they start paying attention to the riders - their customers - instead of licking EU boots to regain sales?

Illustration from Dragon Magazine, Feb 1986
"The Bootlicker's Guide"

As the European Union is closing in on f...

The Norwegian insurance company "If..." wants the motorcycle riders to pay the price for unattentive car drivers.

Ulf Larsen, If... Insurance

Ulf Larsen is one of the head honchos of the If... insurance company, a major one in Norway. At his company's web site we can read the following...

Norwegian riders are mad as hell after a car driver got acquitted in court for running down and seriously injuring a motorcyclist (see case translation below)

According to the news sites reporting on the case, the court aqcuitted the female car driver by a 2 to 1 vote. Two of the judges claimed the driver h...

Norwegian riders have fought and recently gained political acceptance for a more fair duty scheme on bikes - a CO2-based system - considerably reducing bike prices. But the motorcycle makers refuse to state CO2 emission figures on their bikes, thus blocking riders from having this considerable duty reduction on new bikes.

Perhaps you thought bikers didn't care about Parliamentary Elections? You're dead wrong...

Me and the politicians. You don't see this everyday, I assure you...

Photo: Tor Egel ...

Two fellow rider's life work is in jeopardy. The road leading up to Biker's Farm has been closed for bikes!

The text below is from the rider's rights organisation Write to Ride - Right to Ride in Northern Ireland, who e-mailed me about this. It's a worrying story, mainly because people are in jeopardy of losing their life's work, but also because it's the result of  arbitrary implementation of regulations solely aimed at motorcycle riders. It's a clear-cut exampl...

Honda has unveiled that it will bring an electric bike to the market in 2010, thus joning the likes of KTM, Vectrix (if they survive), Zero and some other smaller brands to compete in this newish segment. But it is through racing bikes electricity will get the advantage it needs to become the future of moto power.

Personally I'm not addicted to petrol combustion engines. Even though I like the sound a...

I had to take my car to work today. The commute became a strong reminder of why motorcycles is a part of the transport solution in most cities of the world.

The railway service into downtown Oslo collapsed today. A small error made all the trains transporting commuters on their way to work stand still for 12 hours. A bad start on a Monday morning. Already overloaded roads leading into the city became a non-moving river of cars as commuters chose to take the...