Safety awareness for trail bike riders is moving up to the next gear with Motorcycling Victoria and Gippsland RoadSafe community groups teaming up to launch Check Your Mates this week.
Check Your Mates is a safety-focused campaign designed to give trail bike riders the information they need to make safe riding choices and raise awareness about the impact of trail bike trauma on individuals and the community.
The campaign was developed with input from numerous motorcycle clubs in partnership with VicRoads, Gippsland RoadSafe community groups, Motorcycling Victoria and Victoria Police.
Check Your Mates includes a range of promotional material that highlights the importance of safety and how trail bike riders can easily comply with legislation and ride responsibly.
Motorcycle Victoria‰Ûªs CEO Wayne Holdsworth said the campaign was designed to fill a gap in knowledge and de-bug some of the myths that exist in the trail bike community.
‰ÛÏTrail bike riders make up more than 30 per cent of all motorcycle related trauma in Victoria, which is something we don‰Ûªt talk about enough in our community. Motorcycle trauma in Gippsland is nearly double that of the state average,‰Û
