About the MMA...

The MMA is your local Motorcyclist Rights Organization (MRO). Our focus is on helping Massachusetts Motorcyclists fight for their rights and help ensure safe conditions on Massachusetts' roads and highways.

YOU DECIDE...
IT'S YOUR RIDE, IT'S YOUR RIGHTS,
DECIDE TO JOIN THE MMA!

We are an organization of concerned brothers & sisters who share a love of riding and a belief in personal rights. People of all colors, creeds and nationalities, united by a common goal: The Freedom to ride in safety, dignity and without hassles. Although our work is important, the MMA is not all work! We're all people who have a good time at MMA events such as our annual 3-day Fall Round Up, Bike Show/ Raffle, Annual Valentine's Day Party, Annual Christmas Party, Lacey Packer Toys For Local Childern Run, Storm the Statehouse Lobbying Day, Nelsons Ride as well as monthly District/County meetings.

Now in the new millenium with new, vigorous and openly discriminatory assaults on motorcycling freedoms appearing as bills on Senate & House floors everywhere, it is critical that every motorcyclist help support an active rights group by becoming an involved member.

In the State of Massachusetts that group is The Massachusetts Motorcycle Association. Since 1975, we have been representing your best interests at the State House, Registry of Motor Vehicles, Insurance Commission, Governor's Highway Safety Bureau and other goverment agencies. We have acquired a track record for being effective, and a reputation for being informed, credible, capable, and influential.

We also work hard to correct misconceptions and eliminate stereotypes attributed to motorcyclists by educating the general community through our charitable works, such as canned food collections, adult & children's charities, and our highly acclaimed Lacey Packer Memorial Toys for Local Children Run.

From 1975 through 2000, we were known as the Modified Motorcycle Association. We changed the name to better represent all motorcyclists here in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The MMA is the voice of all Massachusetts Motorcyclists. No matter what you ride.

Our dues are nominal, and our tasks are monumental. As a Not-for-profit corporation, we need your support. We're an organization of volunteers fighting for your rights, against a much larger, more powerful, and better-funded foe. It's Your motorcycle! Your future! Your ride! Your MMA!

Support the MMA - Your political watchdog on Beacon Hill

• 2002 - Kick-started the Annual Toys for Tots drive for the 28th year with our 13th Annual Lacey Packer Memorial Toy Run

• 2001 - Got veteran and handicap plates bills enacted for riders who quality

• 2001 - "Rolled back" Massachusetts' Motorcycle Safety & Awareness Period' from May to be observed during the last week of March through the last week of April, for greater awareness seeking to reduce accidents and injuries.

• 2001 - Joined with local Northampton riders squashing an attempt to BAN motorcycle parking on Main Street

• 2000 - Got the Governor to transfer the State's Motorcycle Safety Program to the Registry of Motor Vehicles

• 1999 - Enacted bill to allow more than one motorcycle per parking space

• Working with the AMA, we helped achieve the Overturn of the Brockton D. Fields Park "Bike Ban" by the MA Supreme Court, a victory that set a national precedent.

• Worked to help pass legislation for State-Funded Rider Education & Motorist Awareness Programs.

• We're a professional resource for information and referrals in insurance and legal matters.

• We helped eliminate "motorcycle and motorcyclist" references from U.S. Senate Bill 339, The Outlaw Street and Motorcycle Gang Control Act of 1991.

• We support all States National Rights Organizations, to increase your national voice.

• In past years, we've helped defeat legislation for mandatory lights-on, full-face helmets, horsepower limitations, & passenger age limits.

• We provide you with professional representation at the State House. Saved you $5.00 on motorcycle registration fees.

• As of 1990, we have gotten Mass. To declare May "Motorcyclist Awareness and You" month.

• Every year, we continue to file legislation with the goal of repealing the State's Mandatory Helmet Law.