Merseyside Police, in collaboration with Liverpool City Council, Liverpool BID Company, Lancashire Constabulary, Isle of Man Constabulary, the National Vehicle Crime Reduction Partnership (NVCRP), the Motorcycle Action Group (MAG), and the British Motorcyclists Federation (BMF), celebrates the continued success of Operation Needle, which significantly reduced motorcycle thefts during the 2025 Isle of Man TT Races (May 26–June 7). This established annual campaign ensures a safer experience for motorcyclists traveling through Liverpool, a key transit hub for the world-renowned event. Operation Needle was directly supported by financial contributions from NVCRP, the MAG Foundation and BMF. These funds enabled enhanced security measures in Liverpool city centre, including Oxford heavy-duty bike chains, additional barriers near hotels, increased police patrols, and electronic detection equipment. The

“Ride To Work Day” provides an opportunity for individuals to switch from cars or public transport to two-wheels for their daily commute and experience reduced congestion, improved mental health well-being and reduced carbon emissions. “Ride To Work Day” is an international campaign, with similar events happening in other countries across the globe. Its aim is to promote the use of motorcycles, mopeds, and scooters as an important mode of transport, not only for commuting, but as a an affordable and accessible transport option for all ages. Paul Morgan CBE, the BMF’s Government Relations Executive says: “To fully unlock the benefits of motorcycling for improved mobility, better mental health wellbeing and for the environment, motorcycling needs to be fully integrated into the mainstream of

BMF Joins Forces with regional police forces, Liverpool City Council and the National Vehicle Crime Reduction Partnership (NVCRP) to deliver enhanced parking security for motorcyclists travelling to next week's TT races. With the Isle of Man TT races taking place from Monday 26 May to Saturday 7 June, the BMF is helping to fund enhanced security measures for racegoers on their motorcycles stopping off in Liverpool to enjoy the city, before they continue to the Isle of Man by ferry. "Op Needle" is a multi-agency initiative, coordinated by Liverpool City Council, designed to prevent theft of and from motorcycles, and to identify, disrupt and bring to justice anyone involved in motorcycle theft. Additional security measures will be in place in Liverpool from this

The 2025 National Young Rider Day will take place on Wednesday 11th June, with a focus on young motorcyclists. Founded by the National Young Rider Forum (NYRF) just two years ago, and aims to celebrate the access of young people to powered two-wheelers (PTWs), and help them to stay safe on the road. As a member of the NYRF, and as one of the leading motorcycle rider organisations in the UK, the British Motorcyclists Federation (BMF) strongly supports National Rider Day with its focus on the safety and development of young riders. The NYRF has set up the New Rider Hub website, which offers a whole raft of useful information for new riders, including guidance on training and safer riding, buying your

Following extensive lobbying of government Ministers and officials by the motorcycling, motoring and cycling lobbies over the last 18 months, the Government has today announced a £1.6 bn investment to tackle the scourge of potholes and poor road surfaces, together with an extra £500 million "roads pot" - enough to fill 7 million potholes a year. The funding will start to be delivered to local councils from next month . In addition, an extra £4.8 bn will be made available to National Highways to deliver critical road schemes for 2025/6 and to maintain motorways and major A-roads. But the full funding to local authorities comes with clear stipulations to ensure that the money is spent where it is required -

In responding to the Government's "Call For Ideas" on developing a future National Integrated Transport Strategy, the BMF has called on Ministers to fully realise and harness the benefits of motorcycling as an accessible, low cost, zero congesting and low-zero polluting transport option both now and as part of the UK’s future transport model. The BMF submitted its response via a detailed and comprehensive standalone paper, coordinated by our key partner the National Motorcyclists Council (NMC), and also via the Department For Transport's (DfT) specific online questionnaire. You can access and read both responses below…… 1. National Motorcyclists Council response - click here 2. BMF's response - Click here Paul Morgan CBE, the BMF’s Government Relations Executive said: “ The BMF has submitted a comprehensive

After an eventful 2024 , what with the change of Government and a new array of Ministers to inform, persuade and guide about Motorcycle matters, we head into 2025. The work has already begun, with the BMF holding a Breakfast event, with our partners in the National Motorcyclists Council, at the House of Commons, attended by MPs and officials. The officials are important, as the collective memory of government, who we need to influence and guide as to what’s important to riders. We are particularly keen to agree a national motorcycle strategy, as a coherent way forward to improve rider’s environment in safety, infrastructure and sustainability as a form of transport. Let’s never forget that biking is the most environmentally sound form

Honda is in talks with Nissan and Mitsubishi about a possible merger, in a move which would create a $54 billion company, number 3 in world car sales. Honda already co-operates with Nissan on electric car technology but increasing competition from Tesla and Chinese EV manufacturers and the possible increased import duties of the incoming Trump administration, is forcing the three Japanese giants to consider a full merger. There’s no mention of motorcycles in the press coverage surrounding the announcement, which was made on 16th December. But there’s reason to believe that such a large-scale merger would be good news for Honda’s motorcycle division. Neither Nissan nor Mitsubishi currently builds powered two-wheelers (the latter offered a scooter called ‘Silver Pigeon’ in

Government Launches National Integrated Transport Strategy Consultation-Make Your Voice Heard The Government has set out its vision for a new Integrated National Transport Strategy built on a “people first” approach to transport that “seamlessly joins all modes of transport together and puts people at the heart of our transport system.” Click here for link In launching a public consultation on the new strategy, the Department for Transport has said they want everyone to be able to contribute to the new vision and to provide ideas on how the new strategy can best deliver greater opportunity, healthier communities and better lives. The new strategy will “set the framework for how they meet people’s transport needs today and in the future.” Motorcyclists have been

....Because they are! Opinion Piece - Director of political and technical Services, Anna Zee, explores the curious absence of motorcycling from planning policy. As a motorcyclist participating in discussions of road safety I am only too well aware that motorcyclists are massively over-represented in the collision statistics given that overall they are only 1% to 3% of the traffic on the road. Consequently the perception of a great many people is that motorcycles are very dangerous. In turn this perception means that many people working in local government and all the way through to national government are unwilling to do anything which they think could be classed as encouraging or promoting motorcycling. So politicians and officials do not want to seem to

Transport Scotland is proposing to reduce speed limits to 50mph on single-carriageway roads, and possibly reduce the dual-carriageway and motorway limits to 60mph for all traffic. The National Speed Management Review, which contains the proposals, could be put out for consultation. The idea behind the changes is to reduce the speed differential between different types of traffic, which Transport Scotland says would have safety benefits as well as reducing tailbacks behind slow moving trucks. So while bikes and cars would see the limit reduced from 60 to 50mph on single-carriageway roads, the limit for trucks over 7.5 tonnes would increase from 40 to 50mph. Similarly, on dual-carriageways and motorways, the speed limit for all traffic would become 60mph, with cars and bikes