The MB legal column is compiled by managing partner Andrew ‘Chef’ Prendergast and his bike-riding barristers and solicitors at White Dalton Motorcycle Solicitors.
The firm deals with personal injury claims and its sister company, Motor Defence Solicitors, deals with all the motoring offences.
White Dalton lawyers have a vast knowledge of bike law, and they have full bike licences, too. They don’t act for insurance companies or the prosecution. White Dalton is Britain’s premier specialist motorcycle law practice, and if its professionals don’t know the answer to your question, there probably isn’t one. Don’t rely on the advice from your insuranceappointed solicitor, get proper independent advice.
10 Years Too Late
15 May 2025
There is a video doing the rounds on social media of some poor squaddie driving a Land Rover and trailer in lane one of a dual carriageway.
Gold Wing Woes
01 May 2025
I have been a biker for the last 40-odd years and had all sorts over the years from BSAs to VFRs.
Unpicking a bunch of clowns
10 Apr 2025
Me and my husband met through the love of biking 10 years ago at the world-famous Super Sausage café on the A5!
Split filtering
05 Apr 2025
Last month I went to trial at Court. Briefly, I was filtering through traffic past a bus when a car pulled out from my left and I hit the side of the car.
Just a ding…
27 Mar 2025
I was out with a group of mates a week ago. We had parked up on a local high street and gone for the obligatory sausage roll.
Wacky Races
13 Mar 2025
I live out in the sticks so it’s currently like Wacky Races with the tractor boys and girls whizzing about getting their crops in, etc.
Burst trailer tyre
27 Feb 2025
I am both a car driver and a biker. Two weeks ago I was overtaken by a car with a trailer on the motorway.
Clean hands
20 Feb 2025
I’ve been thinking of getting my MT09’s ECU ‘flashed’ to release a bit of horsepower and smooth out the throttle response, and wondered what effect this might have on my insurance premium.
Wheelie bad idea
13 Feb 2025
Me and a couple of friends were pulling wheelies and doing burnouts in a car park at the local business park, i.e. with a sofa shop and a KFC.
Carbon fibre crazy
06 Feb 2025
I am a Ducati man through and through. I love everything about them so when I turned 50, I decided to spend the kid’s inheritance and bought a Ducati Panigale.
Bring back National Service
30 Jan 2025
Some young lass drove straight out of a car park and into the side of me whilst I was on the main road.
Civil & Criminal Courts
23 Jan 2025
My wife was killed just over two years ago whilst she was overtaking a line of stationary traffic.
Sprung mattress
16 Jan 2025
Now that spring has sprung, I thought I would drag my trusty CB1000R out of the shed and head out over the moors to grab some air and soak up the sunshine.
Litigation caseworker specialist
19 Dec 2024
Just over three years ago I was out with my local bike group riding the green lanes of Hampshire on my trusty Husqvarna 701.
Mental stress
05 Dec 2024
Last year I went out and bought a brand spanking new Hayabusa. I have always hankered after one since my teenage days when the first generation came out with the legendary 220mph clocks from the factory.
Legally modified
21 Nov 2024
I am bike and car mad, having owned all kinds of weird and wonderful things over the years from RD350s to Subaru Imprezas.
