Moto Club celebrates anniversary with focus on road safety

Commemorating the fourth anniversary of the Macau Moto Club (MCM), approximately 60 members of the organization and other local bike clubs participated in a motorcycle parade around the MSAR on Saturday.
The parade passed through Macau, Taipa and Coloane, finishing at the Roadhouse Bar on Broadway Macau where celebrations including a buffet, live music, a motorcycle display and a prize draw began at 1.30 p.m.
Members of MCM at the event took the opportunity to stress that Macau still has far to go in terms of improving road safety – especially for motorcycle users.
“We are not people who make the streets of Macau a racetrack. In Macau Moto Club we respect, in an exemplary manner, the traffic code and we make sure that the rules are respected by all [of our members],” João Mexia, vice president of the organization, told TDM.
However, Mexia also stressed, “We also want to alert [people] to the conditions of the streets in Macau because sometimes we see that people who drive in Macau don’t care about our big bikes; they cut us off, they don’t use their turning signals.”
“It’s very difficult for us to control our big bikes if someone cuts in front of us,” he added.
Founded in 2012, the club has organized activities and trips to various Asian destinations including mainland China, Taiwan, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar. Group members are bound together by their motto: “We don’t ride to forget life, we ride to remember that good life exists.”