White Dalton Motorcycle Solicitors have been writing for various motorcycle magazines for a number of years, bringing our specialism in everything to do with the law and motorbikes to the public.
We are putting together a database of articles that may assist you and will hopefully be of interest. The current database of articles can be found on our blog or by clicking on the magazine covers below.
All articles are reproduced here with kind permission from the respective magazine.
High and dry in the Highlands
25 Oct 2018
I was following a coach along some single track roads in the Scottish Highlands. Eventually the driver braked to give way to an oncoming vehicle, but then put his coach into reverse and backed up and in the process, ran both me and my motorcycle over.
Flip-up helmets and the law
18 Oct 2018
If you have a modular or flip-up helmet warm weather can tempt you into riding flipped up, as it does most of the Metropolitan Police in the summer. But is it legal?
Never a lender or a borrower be
11 Oct 2018
If someone you don’t know asks to take your motorbike out, don’t be a plum.
Dodgy Solicitors
04 Oct 2018
I was riding my AJS Tempest 125 and went through a red light by mistake, hitting a car.
Stuffed Crust
27 Sep 2018
I work for a well-known pizza chain and was delivering a 12in pepperoni on a works scooter when I got a delivery of my own… a ticket from Mr Plod.
Lord Chief Justice Facebook
20 Sep 2018
My ‘old man’ threatened to castrate me if I got caught riding like a dipstick.
Takeaway my licence
13 Sep 2018
I picked up my CMX500 Rebel a couple of months ago. I do a bit of takeaway delivering and was taking a short cut down the local high street the wrong way (it’s one way) to beat the traffic.
The perils of potholes
06 Sep 2018
As the “Beast from the East” ripped through the country a couple of months ago, it made the daily commute by motorbike to White Dalton Motorcycle Solicitors HQ a rather treacherous and cold ride.
Speeding Numptee
30 Aug 2018
As the sun has started shining I wheeled out my GSX-R600 for a weekend blast with the lads. I admit we were speeding but only about 55mph in a 30mph, so not ridiculously fast.
Seized Triple
23 Aug 2018
I recently purchased a ‘pre-owned’ Triumph Speed Triple from a dealer about 2 weeks ago. It had 12 months MOT and had just been serviced.
Motorbike modifications, does my insurer need to know?
16 Aug 2018
When does an motorbike accessory become a modification to a motorbike? And If I make a minor modification to the bike, how much does my Insurer need to know?
Daylight robbery!
02 Aug 2018
I ride a Triumph Street Triple as my daily commuter. I have fully comprehensive insurance and therefore I can ride other motorbikes as long as I don’t own them.
Fiddling the books
26 Jul 2018
I got knocked off my Kawasaki Versys 650 about four years ago. Liability was admitted straight away.
Out of time
19 Jul 2018
In 2008 I was riding my Fazer 600 when a car turned right across my path. The smack up was really bad and put me in a coma for four months.
Asphalt like marbles
12 Jul 2018
Last summer I was on my BMW 1200 heading on my usual route to work. I was meandering around a roundabout on the ring road when the front end of the motorbike just washed out on gravel etc. from the broken up road surface.
Can I sue a pedestrian who causes an accident?
05 Jul 2018
I had literally just picked up my new Kawasaki Z1000SX. We were on our maiden voyage.
Reversing blind
28 Jun 2018
I pulled up at my local motorbike dealer into the proper parking spaces and was just about to get off my Ducati 916.