FEMA debunks claim that motorcycling is expensive

Motorcycling is by far the most expensive form of road transport. That’s the shock claim of a European Commission study.

Obviously, we are not talking about the cost to the owner of a motorcycle – depreciation, maintenance and repairs – but the cost to society. The research looked at seven categories: accidents, congestion, air pollution, climate, noise, well-to-tank and habitat damage.

The report was by Dutch environmental consultants CE Delft and its results have been used by PTW critics to attack motorcycling, according to Dolf Willigers, general secretary of the Federation of European Motorcyclists’ Associations (FEMA).

Willigers has hit back, explaining why he thinks the claims are flawed.

Read his response in defence of motorcyling here.