The possibility of allowing motorcycles to legally travel faster than cars on the Hume Freeway has been investigated by Wodonga-based MP Tim Quilty.
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As a member of the committee involved in the inquiry into the increase in Victoria's road toll, Mr Quilty used Monday's hearing to ask expert witnesses about having varied speed limits on the freeway for different vehicles.
Damien Codognotto from Motorcycle Riders Association said it was a complicated issue, but motorcyclists did go faster the other traffic occasional to get to a clear area away from other vehicles.
Motorsport expert Bob Barnard - who was the organiser of Winton's only Australian motorcycle Grand Prix event in the 1980s - said the concept of varied speed limits worked well where he now lives in Spain.
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"The traffic does sort itself out, so you're very rarely get yourself in that situation where you're in this big lump of traffic that all doing the same speed," he said.
"I thought it was a very sensible approach."
Mr Quilty also spoke against a suggestion that speed limits be lowered.
"If you lower speed limits by 20 per cent for little rural communities, you're going to add to travel times, you're basically talking about destroying those little towns," he said.
"Every time you ratchet down the speed limit, you increase the cost of living in those areas dramatically."
