Motorcyclists follow rules that appear in no law book and are still observed almost everywhere. From the wave and tapping the helmet to the riding order within a group, it is a system built entirely on reciprocity.
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Under this tag you will find articles related to everyday road use and real-world situations involving motorcycles. This includes traffic incidents, infrastructure and route issues, police reports, safety matters and reports on situations encountered in real traffic.
The list below brings together all content in which everyday riding, traffic rules or real-world road scenarios are featured — ranging from specific incidents to general developments affecting motorcycle riders in daily traffic.
The first test drives for a driverless taxi service begin in Munich in the coming weeks, and other operators are already on the road there. For motorcyclists that pushes one question to the front, and there is still no solid European answer to it: how reliably does this technology detect a single-track vehicle?
Spain’s traffic authority DGT now has 130 Veloláser devices in service, barely bigger than a forearm and working without a flash. Anyone riding through Spain on holiday should know how these devices measure, where they are placed and which new systems are being added in 2026 and 2027.
On the outskirts of Piacenza in northern Italy, motorcyclists are once again racing illegally at night, arranged via social networks and with an audience at the roadside. The latest incident at Montale shows that a problem the region already faced years ago is back.
Patrick Cornell covered 201,901 miles on his Indian Pursuit 2025 within twelve months and set four world records in the process. Behind the ride is a fundraising campaign for a rare muscle disease that has affected his family for generations.
The Metropolitan Police has expanded its fleet of electric Sur-Ron Ultra Bee machines from five to 25. The purchase was paid for out of assets previously confiscated from offenders.
A 26-year-old motorcyclist died on the B154 at Lake Mondsee in July 2026 because he had to swerve around a car pulling out of a parking bay. Although the two vehicles never touched, the car driver drove on and is still being sought today.
A study by the German Institute for Motorcycle Safety compared the estimated and actually ridden braking distances of 50 motorcyclists. The result is clearer than expected: depending on the speed, almost every second rider needed more distance than they thought.
In Denmark it is prohibited to ride a motorcycle between waiting rows of cars. An association with close to 30,000 members wants to change that and is meeting clear resistance.
Two motorcyclists from the United States turned the trace of their navigation devices into a pen and drew the lettering „WRWR 2026“ right across the North American continent. Guinness World Records recognised the ride as the largest coordinated GPS drawing ever completed by a motorcycle duo.
A 19-year-old led police on a chase through Los Angeles for more than an hour, interrupted by two fuel stops and several phone calls. It ended with an arrest inside a recycling bin, and the suspicion that had triggered the whole pursuit could not be confirmed.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol has published its final tally for the 86th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The number of crashes dropped sharply, while the statistics show an increase in felony drug offences.
More and more European countries are applying special markings in corners to guide motorcyclists onto a safe line. Norway has just started a scientific trial, new figures are in from Scotland, and in the Eifel region the German pilot project is being expanded.
In August the grain harvest is in full swing, with combine harvesters and tractors shuttling between field and farm. For motorcyclists the machines themselves are less of a problem than what they leave behind on the asphalt.
There will be no through-traffic ban at the Gardena Pass from 1 September 2026 after all. Instead of barriers and fines, a purely digital test phase begins, and its results are meant to help decide the rules from 2027.
For a good three years, a barrier came down on the Borgloher Straße near Georgsmarienhütte on selected weekends to reduce motorcycle noise. In response to an enquiry by Motorcycles.News, the district authority and the ministry now state that the measure had no measurable effect and that no documentation of the trial exists.
A British analysis of 15,247 trauma patients compares e-scooters, motorcycles and bicycles in a single data set for the first time. The result is considerably less favourable for the scooter than for the motorcycle, yet the figures do not mean what the headlines suggest.
In Rome, more and more scooters and motorcycles are cutting out shortly after refuelling. Workshops are finding water and dirt in the fuel, and the finance police have now launched large-scale inspections at filling stations in the capital.
Barcelona is doubling the number of advanced stop zones for motorcycles at traffic lights by 2027 and is testing impact protection in the middle of the city for the first time. A look at the UK, France and Germany shows how differently European cities treat the powered two-wheeler.
Nearly one in two motorcyclists has narrowly avoided an accident on a country road within the past two years. A new Forsa survey also shows that the corner, of all things, is barely perceived as a danger.