The Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) and Honda Australia Rider Training (HART) are seeking “returning riders” to participate in a study which aims to help identify the types of training, licensing and countermeasures that would be most beneficial for reducing crash involvement.
A returning rider is defined as someone who:
- Used to ride and covered no less than 20,000 kms in those years.
- Stopped riding for a period of five years or more.
- Returned to riding in the past six months and has ridden between 500 and 1,000 kms in that period.
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Honda Australia has announced that they will be restructuring the management of their various high profile events and as a result, will cease operations of the Honda Riders Club of Australia (HRCA) effective immediately.
All events to take place from this point on will be branded under the corporate Honda banner.
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Official figures for motorcycle sales in Australia during 2009 have been released by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) and show a decrease of 13.6% in overall sales. Whilst this may be alarming to many, Australia has actually fared much better than most of the world, with sales in the US down a staggering 44% to September last year and Japan reporting that demand in some sectors has been reduced by as much as 55%.
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For those of us with little aspiring motorcycle champions the news that Honda Motorcycles and former National Motocross/Supercross Champion Lee Hogan have teamed up to launch “MotoKids” in 2010 is certainly good news.
The program is already gaining widespread coverage, and rightly so.
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I was a teenager in the 1970s living on a 11,000 acre wheat farm in western New South Wales. Our nearest neighbours were 5 miles (8kms) away and they were our next door neighbour. As kids on a farm, to get around we improvised with any means of transport; sometimes we rode pushbikes; there was the car with no doors, little brakes, and a few other safety features missing; there were horses, but they were too much trouble to saddle up; and, there was the motorbike.
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