At Rider Sport Australia (RSA) we get to speak with many clubs and every single one of them says nearly the same thing, "Our club is knocking on death's door." Clubs that were once strong and financial are now facing imminent closure. Every one of these clubs we get to speak with we ask the same question of each of them, "What do you think is the r...

The management of Rider Sport Australia (RSA) have been negotiating with industry in an effort to seek their support of the RSA and its initiatives. Negotiations have gone better than expected, which we will reveal shortly, but what we can say is that a condition of the RSA receiving support from industry is that the RSA must give back to the not f...

Have you ever thought about creating a business in one of the many powered or unpowered, driver or rider sport and recreation sectors? Or maybe you're involved in a specific sport discipline and have a bunch of like minded colleagues that together could successfully run an alternative to the current peak body! What if we told you that we can very e...

All Rider Sport Australia Pty Ltd (RSA) Members can now benefit from being a shareholder in their Sanctioning Body and receive a return on their investment through a dividend. A dividend is a distribution of earnings to shareholders in the form of cash. The RSA structure is a hybrid group of not for profit and commercial companies. The RS...

Regarding licencing and the current coverage's applied by alternate sporting bodies, I believe it might be of some additional value to clubs and locations to note some commentary relating to my offices professional experiences within the Australian Insurance industry. If it has not already been made aware to you, our Insurance submissions process h...

Rider Sport Australia (RSA) has come out of the starting gate strong and with the current trend in membership growth, the RSA could very well represent the majority of motorcyclists in this country come 2026. Achieving this will be through partnerships with people that have the same values and ideals about the direction that grassroots motorcycling...

The RSA Insurance Representative is Ryan Sharvell from OTTA Insurance and he has provided the following commentary regarding the RSA personal accident insurance options for members. Ryan has presented the options in two parts to help provide a basic understanding of the covers and how they can potentially ass...

Not only does Rider Sport Australia (RSA) have superior insurance cover over others in the industry, it also has the widest scope of cover of any industry organisation in Australia. Read more about our scope of cover Here. To get to this point the management of the RSA can only be described as non-traditional in their thinking, which is reflected i...

Not only does Rider Sport Australia (RSA) have superior insurance cover over others in the industry, it also has the widest scope of cover of any industry organisation in Australia. Read more about our scope of cover Here. To get to this point the management of the RSA can only be described as non-traditional in their thinking, which is reflected i...

Following on from the blog, Introducing the RSA Insurance Representative, OTTA Insurance can provide some commentary that should be able to assist in answering the question on the security of the RSA insurance policy for current and potential members and promoters. The Rider Sport Australia (RSA) insurance submission has been successfully...

There are two main areas to the Rider Sport Australia (RSA) Coaches Insurance Program (CIP): Riding Activities, ie. public liability insurance ; andCoaching Advice, ie. professional indemnity insurance.Riding ActivitiesRSA provides $20M insurance cover for Riding Activities with its Public Liability (PL) policy, which provides superior covers inclu...

Ryan Sharvell from OTTA Insurance is the Rider Sport Australia (RSA) insurance representative. Ryan is probably the only person in Australia that works in the hard to place insurance markets that is also a motorcyclist. Having being introduced to motorcycling from 4 years of age and having ridden on road and off road, recreationally and competitive...

Not only does the RSA insurance policy have superior cover for its members, we also have a far greater scope of insured activities, which means our event organisers can deliver far more opportunities for enthusiasts to go riding or racing! The RSA is simply a one stop shop for organisers of sport (competitive and noncompetitive) and recre...

It finally happened, the Rider Sport Association (RSA) insurance policy is now written. Not only does the RSA insurance policy have superior cover for its members, we also have a far greater scope of insured activities, which means our event organisers can deliver far more opportunities for members to go riding or racing! Promoting clubs and privat...

It finally happened, the Rider Sport Association (RSA) insurance policy is now written. Not only does our insurance policy have superior cover for our members, we also have a far greater scope of insured activities, which means our event organisers can deliver far more opportunities for our members to go riding or racing! Our in...

Following on from the post What is the Structure of the RSA and Who Will Manage Each Part, Rider Sport Australia (RSA) is seeking expressions of interest (EOI) for the engagement of suitably experienced persons to fill the role of National Discipline Manager (NDM) across all of the RSA Divisions as detailed in the Discover the R...

Since the end of 2022, the RSA team has been working to produce a long term viable insurance solution for the whole of motorcycle industry including businesses, clubs and riders so we can just go racing and riding without the headache! The RSA has just received approval from our premium funding company, ...

As discussed in the previous post THERE IS NOW A WHOLE OF INDUSTRY INSURANCE SOLUTION FOR MOTORCYCLING, the reinsurer which has been secured by the Rider Sport Group (RSG) to provide the secondary layer of insurance for the Rider Sport Mutual (RSM) has now agreed to come forward and provide the Rider Sport Association (RSA) with a traditional ...

From the research of the Rider Sport Association (RSA) team of every peak motorcycle sporting body around the world, we discovered that virtually every one of them does exactly the same thing and only caters for and represents the elite minority. As every rider around the world knows, the number of elite motorcyclists is very few, but the majority ...

Riders will be very happy to know that the RSA is more than just rider recreation, it will actually permit competitive (amateur, professional-amateur and professional racing) and noncompetitive (practice, testing and active recreation) activities, which involves the use of powered and unpowered vehicles that are ridden. Unpowered Rider Sport m...