Ride To Work Day 20th June

CMC Motorcycles Clay Cross will be opening the café early (8am) on Monday 20th of June to support all riders who take part in the National Ride to Work Day. Several of the CMC team will be riding in to work so come on down and join us for a free Toast, Tea and Coffee if you call in between 8am to 9am on your bike!

Ride To Work Day

On Ride To Work Day, motorbike and scooter riders around the world show just how enjoyable their daily commute is. 

By riding to work we demonstrate that life would be better if more people rode motorcycles and scooters every day, with time savings, less congestion and reduced travel costs.

So we want you to join us on Ride to Work Day.

• Click ‘attending’ on the Ride to Work UK Facebook event, and show your friends you are proud to be riding to work on 20 June.
• Follow Ride to Work Day on Twitter and retweet to your followers.

Why Take Part

If you already commute on two wheels, great

By taking part in National Ride to Work Day you’ll encourage others to Get On too. We’ll also remind other road users that we all share our daily journey to work, and it’s more pleasant if we all look out for one another. And policymakers will see what a vital part of the transport mix motorcyclists are.

Share the fun

It’s a great chance to get a friend into riding. Give them a lift into work on your motorbike or scooter. Better still, get them to do a Free Ride through Get On. If they like it, there may still be time for them to do their CBT (the minimum level of training needed) before June 20, and then ride to work on their own motorcycle!

If you have a scooter or motorbike but don't usually use it to go to work

this is your chance to find out just how much time and hassle you could save, and how good it feels to be doing your bit to reduce congestion instead of adding to it. If you start riding to work just one day a week, over the year you’ll save lots of time and cash. If everyone did the same thing, the roads would be that bit clearer.

Visit  Travel Savings Calculator at Get On to find out how much you could save on your daily commute.

If you are a new rider

If you’re a new rider and want to start riding more regularly, this is a great opportunity.  Just click ‘attending’ on our Ride to Work UK Facebook event and leave a message on the event wall and we’ll try to put you in touch with a more experienced rider who could be your riding buddy on the day.

Not riding yet, but think it's a great idea?

Head over to Get On and you can book a Free Ride – a one hour trial session on a scooter or motorbike with a qualified instructor.  It costs nothing and you don’t need a motorcycle licence, so it’s the ideal way to find out if motorcycling is for you.

Why You Should Ride

Road tax starts at just £16 a year for smaller motorcycles, parking is generally free and motorbikes and scooters don’t pay the London congestion charge. Add that to lower fuel bills and you’re laughing. To find out how much you could save, visit our Travel Savings Calculator at Get On where new riders can book a Free Ride .

More Flexibility

No more waiting for overcrowded and delayed buses, trains and trams. Just get on and go when you’re ready.

More Friends

There are 1.3 million motorcycles on UK roads. That number’s risen by 75% since 1995, easily the fastest-growing type of vehicle.  What do those 1.3 million riders know that you don’t?

More Fun

How many commuters do you know who get off the bus or Underground, with a big smile every day?

Less Congestion

85% of commuting car drivers are alone in their car. If just a few of them switched to a scooter or motorbike it would mean fewer cars in the morning and evening rush hours and everyone could keep moving.

Less Fuel Burnt

Smaller motorbikes and scooters can do over 100 mpg. That means less exhaust fumes for everyone else to breathe in, too.

Motorcycling in the UK

Motorcycles and scooters have the potential to address many transport problems, also helping to reduce social exclusion, transport Co2 and improve quality of life.

The potential benefits, both as a popular form of transport and as recreation, have been suppressed by a general failure of local and national authorities to 'Think Bike'.

The motorcycle industry and the UK's other principal motorcycle organisations are calling upon Government to ensure that future transport, business and social policy realises the full potential of biking by:

• Providing a fair deal for motorcycle riders, industry and sport.
• Making Motorcycles an integral part of the future transport mix: 'Think Bike'
• Refocusing road safety action on tackling the real causes of accidents.

Motorcycling represents a greatly untapped source of solutions for many issues facing society: traffic congestion, personal CO2 emissions, travel costs, flexible mobility. Significant contributions are made to national and local economies by motorcycle manufacture, sales and service, sport, transport and leisure.

Motorcycling engages many young people in sporting activities, helping to reduce crime and social disorder in addition to fielding world class athletes and Champions in many disciplines. But public policy still largely ignores motorcycling as a mainstream form of transport, but its contribution to other policy objectives is even less well understood.

Road safety policy focuses almost entirely on improving riders without addressing those road and traffic conditions that too often make riders vulnerable. Industry is held back by policies which ignore its needs and the contribution it makes to the economy. Unnecessary restrictions are placed on organisers of motorcycle sport and social events and society is denied the opportunity to fully utilise the positive aspects of biking.

Motorcycling in a nutshell

• Motorcycling is popular: Around 3 million licence holders, more than 1.2 million ride regularly.
• Riders contribute around £7 billion per annum to the national economy.
• Biking is big business: The motorcycle industry employs 62,000 people in 5,700 enterprises. 500,000 new and used bikes are sold each year.
• Motorcycles bring mobility: traffic congestion and incomplete public transport links present barriers to many journeys that powered twowheelers can take in their stride.
• Riders buy for practical reasons and for enjoyment: Over 60% of journeys are for commuting, utility, practical purposes (especially important for job seekers and for those on low incomes).
• Riders save time: cutting journey times by up to 48% in some surveys.
• Riders use land more efficiently: many bikes can fit into one car parking space.
• Riders reduce traffic congestion: bikes are shorter and narrower and remain more mobile in traffic jams.
• Riders create very little pollution: CO2 emissions 30% lower than cars on average.
• Riders’ risk of injury has fallen by nearly 30% in the last decade.

For further information about the key themes above, please look at www.mcia.co.uk and www.ridersarevoters.org