Motorcycle Action Group

03/06/2026

Dorset Bumpkin Bash Rally 2026

Friday 4th – Sunday 6th September

Higher Park Farm, Broadwindsor, Dorset DT8 3QT

Live bands, real ales & cider at the Bumpkin Bar, Saturday ride-out, silly games + longest distance trophy!

£25 on the gate Campervans +£20, Cars +£15 (limited spaces – pre-book only)

Call 07747 869321



West Dorset MAG

02/06/2026

Colin's on the road again and has made it to Mann Island, where he's meeting Sergeant Craig Winstanley as work gets underway on Operation Needle.

Working with Merseyside Police once again during TT week, the The MAG Foundation is helping fund SelectaDNA kits and security chains to support efforts to tackle motorcycle theft. The aim is simple: make bikes harder to steal and easier to recover.

The event starts at 4pm TODAY. If you're in Liverpool, come down, get your bike forensically marked for free, have a chat with the team, and say hello to Colin, who'll be filming throughout the afternoon.

Free Forensic Marking for your motorcycle

📍 Motorcycle Parking Bays, Mann Island
📅 Tuesday 2 June 2026
⏰ 4pm - 7pm

02/06/2026

Oxford's traffic filter cameras go live in August. If you're on a bike, you ride through free- no permit, no charge, no barrier. That's not the default. That's what six years of lobbying looks like.

In 2020, Oxfordshire County Council documents described motorcyclists as "a danger to themselves." MAG challenged it publicly, forced a retraction, and kept pushing. By 2021, motorcycles were written above cars in the council's own transport hierarchy. When the traffic filter trial was designed, that hierarchy meant bikes were exempt.

Policy words became tarmac reality.

Full story on the site — and if you know riders in Oxford, share it.
https://mag-uk.org/oxfords-traffic-filters-go-live-riders-pass-through-free/

Motorcycles exempt from Oxford Traffic filters launching August 2026. Riders pass through all six camera points free – no permit required. MAG’s six-year campaign success

01/06/2026

The parking situation. We've all got one.

The arrangement with the bloke on the loading bay. The invisible-but-universally-respected convention in the corner of the car park. The spot that technically nobody owns but that everyone knows is yours. The fifteen-minute conversation with facilities management that took three months to arrange.

Not ideal. Absolutely functional. Entirely self-constructed.

Motorcycle parking provision in the UK is patchy at best and non-existent at worst. The infrastructure ask is tiny — a few rings in a wall, a covered corner — but it's rarely provided without someone advocating for it first.

That someone is usually us.

Chapter Three of We Ride Anyway. 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣? 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙬— 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢

Ride to Work Day: Tuesday 9 June.

01/06/2026

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗔𝗚’𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀- 𝗝𝗨𝗡𝗘

This month: MAG and the MAG Foundation team up with Merseyside Police to tackle motorcycle theft. Plus, Ride to Work Day is almost here, and we’ve got five road safety consultations in the can.

MAG (Motorcycle Action Group) is the UK’s largest organisation representing motorcyclists. We campaign for riders’ rights, fight bad legislation, and work to make motorcycling safer and more accessible.

Key links:
🔗 Operation Needle info:https://x.com/MerseyPolice/status/2060979894817808687
🔗 Forensic Marking Event: https://mag-uk.org/event/merseyside-police-motorcycle-forensic-marking-event/
🔗SelectaDNA: https://www.selectadna.co.uk/
🔗 Ride to Work Day — everything you need: https://ride-to-work-day.mag-uk.org
🔗 Shareable resources for social: https://ride-to-work-day.mag-uk.org/ride-to-work-resources/
🔗 MAG’s five RSS consultation responses: https://mag-uk.org/mag-responds-to-five-road-safety-consultations-with-strong-case-for-systemic-reform/
🔗 Join MAG: https://mag-uk.org/join/

01/06/2026

If you've got a young person in your life who's about to get on a bike, or if you are that young person, this is worth 40 minutes of your time.

Warwickshire Road Safety Education and the National Young Rider Forum are running a free online webinar on 30th June, 6–6:40pm, covering the stuff that actually matters before you ride: what the CBT really involves, why the Ride Free training exists and how to use it, and what your gear is actually doing for you when everything goes wrong.

There's a live Q&A at the end. Experts on the call, real questions welcome.

MAG backs this- helping riders start right keeps more of them riding.

Book your place: b74292b1-ccb4-484f-a10d-dae209aed539@88b0aa06-5927-4bbb-a893-89cc2713ac82" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b74292b1-ccb4-484f-a10d-dae209aed539@88b0aa06-5927-4bbb-a893-89cc2713ac82

WCC Road Safety Education & Active Travel
Warwickshire Road Safety Partnership
New Rider Hub

01/06/2026

𝗠𝗔𝗚 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀- 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲

June 2nd
Merseyside Police- Motorcycle Forensic Marking Event
https://mag-uk.org/event/merseyside-police-motorcycle-forensic-marking-event/

June 19th -21st
Farmyard Party Motorcycle Rally
https://mapevents.co.uk/farmyard-party-motorcycle-rally-yorkshire/

26th- 28th June
27th Blackpool MAG Area Rally
https://mag-uk.org/event/27th-blackpool-mag-area-rally/

June 28th
ROMNEY MARSH RIDE-IN SHOW AND BIKE JUMBLE
https://www.elkpromotions.co.uk/romney-marsh-june

Find the full MAG calendar at: https://mag-uk.org/events/

29/05/2026

The motorcycle mileage allowance has been frozen at 24p since 2002.
The car rate just went up to 55p. MAG has written to the Chancellor — and this is just the start.

MAG is the UK's largest organisation representing motorcyclists.

🔗 Full breakdown + FOI document: https://mag-uk.org/mileage-allowance-just-four-pence-more-than-a-pushbike/
🔗 Join MAG and fund campaigns like this: https://mag-uk.org/motorcycle-action-group-membership/
🔗 Official AMAP rates (gov.uk): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rates-and-allowances-travel-mileage-and-fuel-allowances/travel-mileage-and-fuel-rates-and-allowances
🔗 2013 FOI request: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/motorcycle_mileage_rates

29/05/2026

A huge thank you to Taunton MAG and the crew who have donated an impressive £7,000 following the success of the 14th Tone Vale Tea Rally! Donations like these are a vital lifeline, enabling us to keep advocating on behalf of riders across the UK.

This is exactly what MAG is all about, rider-led, rider-funded, with great events, brilliant people, and support for a cause that matters.

Taunton MAG (Motorcycle Action Group)

Find a MAG event near you at: https://mag-uk.org/events/

28/05/2026

Quick question for the commuters.

You're approaching a bus lane. Can you use it?

Depends where you are. Depends which authority. Depends which direction. Depends whether the rules changed since last Tuesday.

There's no national standard for motorcycle bus lane access in the UK. Never has been. So riders do what riders do — they learn the map, track the boundaries, and adapt when things change.

It is, if you think about it, a fairly impressive piece of ongoing operational problem-solving. We just don't call it that. We call it commuting.

This is Chapter Two of our We Ride Anyway series ahead of Ride to Work Day on 9 June. Each week we're taking one of the obstacles that motorcycle commuters face and reframing it for what it actually is: evidence of something exceptional.

𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙪𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙚 𝙧𝙪𝙡𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙫𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙? 𝙒𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚.