Decisions on new closures and restrictions for motorcycles are usually made once the season is over. On the B500, near Oberhof and at the Sudelfeld, such decisions are due in the coming weeks.
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From the Street
In this category you will find articles related to everyday riding and real-world road situations involving motorcycles. This includes traffic-related topics, enforcement measures, accidents, infrastructure changes and other developments affecting motorcycle use in public traffic.
The list below brings together reports that focus less on racing or new models and more on real-life situations and experiences on the road.
This section provides an overview of topics that may directly impact motorcycle riders in daily traffic.
In the Außerfern region, further roads could soon be closed to motorcycles with a stationary noise level above 95 decibels, as the Tyrolean state parliament reviews an extension of the ban. Ironically, the justification is motorcycles that are avoiding the existing closures.
Italy has issued new rules for underride protection on crash barriers, which is meant to protect fallen motorcyclists from posts and edges. A single serious accident can trigger an obligation, but designers and road operators may opt out with a justification.
After a summer of many fatal motorcycle crashes in the northern Black Forest, authorities are relying on rumble strips, drones and more checks. A traffic psychologist thinks this is not enough and wants to tackle risky riding where he believes it starts: in the mind and on the smartphone.
Italy’s government wants to oblige drivers in traffic jams to clear a corridor for motorcycles and allow motorcycles onto the hard shoulder when traffic backs up. Nothing has been adopted yet, and the corridor will by no means be mandatory on every road.
Derbyshire is the first county in England to guide motorcyclists through bends with the PRIME gates known from Scotland. The first two routes have been marked, and five more have already been approved.
Since the end of June 2026, police in England and Wales can seize motorcycles immediately for anti-social riding, without issuing a warning first. At the same time, owners have much less time to recover their vehicle before it can be disposed of.
Police counted ten accidents by the end of September 2026 on the section of the B62 between Afholderbach and the Kronprinzeneiche, compared with just one in 2022. Two more demanding motorcycle roads nearby barely appear in the statistics.
For a year now, rumble strips on the twisty country road between Zella-Mehlis and Oberhof have been meant to slow down speeders on two wheels. The results are mixed, and in November the accident commission will decide what happens to the strips next.
Serious motorcycle crashes keep happening at the so-called Applauskurve on the B62 near Netphen. Now the accident commission is to decide at a special meeting whether motorcyclists there will face further restrictions, up to and including a ban.
From early October, seven new posters from the road safety campaign “Runter vom Gas” (Slow Down) will be displayed along German autobahns, painted by girls aged between nine and twelve. Behind the designs lies a months-long selection process in which drastic alternatives and AI-generated drafts ultimately played no role.
On the twisty L698 over the Kohlberg between Altena-Dahle and Neuenrade, residents have been complaining about noise and excessive speed for years. The CDU group on Altena’s town council wants to change that with a ten-point plan ranging from new speed limits to a fixed speed camera.
After four fatal motorcycle crashes this year, authorities, municipalities and police in Baden-Baden have agreed on a joint package of measures for the Black Forest High Road. More checks with drones and unmarked vehicles are planned, while logbook orders, one-way systems and the confiscation of motorcycles are also being examined.
Since 21 September 2026, vehicle-and-trailer combinations with a towing vehicle of up to 3.5 tonnes no longer need e-TOLL in Poland. The new rule does not apply on every route, and anyone with credit left on their toll account has to act.
A 21-year-old motorcyclist from Münster has been given an eight-month suspended sentence by Rheine District Court. In April he fled from the police without a licence, without registration and without insurance cover, and the court confiscated his motorcycle.
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.
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.