Motorbike recovery on the M60

What makes the M60 different

There are no service areas on the M60, junctions come thick and fast, and large parts of it are smart motorway, where the hard shoulder is a running lane. If the bike starts to fail, your best options are to come off at the next junction or to pull into an emergency area.

• Barton High Level Bridge (junctions 10 to 11) over the Manchester Ship Canal is high and windy.
• Simister Island (junction 18), where the M60, M62 and M66 meet, is one of the busiest interchanges in the country.
• Junctions 1 to 4 through Stockport are often slow, and bikes overheat in the queues.

Where we’ll take the bike

Home, a dealer, your own garage or a bodyshop. If it’s the middle of the night, we can take it home or to storage and on to the dealer later.

Nearby: Manchester, Stockport, Salford, Altrincham and Sale, Bury and Ashton.

If your bike stops on the motorway

1. Get to the left. Hard shoulder, emergency area or the next exit if the bike still moves.
2. Get behind the barrier. Leave the bike, climb over the barrier and stand well up the bank, away from the traffic.
3. Stuck in a live lane? Call 999 straight away. Keep your helmet on and get off the carriageway if you safely can.
4. Call us once you’re safe, and send a WhatsApp location pin or the number on the nearest marker post.

Never try to fix the bike on the hard shoulder. On smart motorways with no hard shoulder, use an emergency area (the orange-surfaced lay-bys) and the SOS phone there connects you to National Highways.