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.
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.
Make sure you’re covered
21 Jun 2018
We would like annual holiday / travel insurance specifically for motorcyclists, or a policy that is happy to cover bikers as part of a more general travel insurance scheme, as several short trips a year, always to Europe and always touring on normal roads.
At your service…
14 Jun 2018
Mistakes happen, but where do you stand when someone cocks-up while working on your motorbike?
When ‘advanced riding’ isn’t
07 Jun 2018
The skills advanced riding gives you are definitely worth having. At their most basic, you position yourself to look through bends, react to what is in front of you, and ride within your braking distances. However, does it make any positive difference in the cold and hard analysis of Judges, if things go pear shaped?
Wife Swap
01 Jun 2018
If you find yourself contemplating passing your speeding claim on to your missus, don’t!
The trouble with kids and horses…
24 May 2018
In English law there are classes of road user defined by The Highway Code as vulnerable. We are one of them along with cyclists, pedestrians, horse riders and children. The concept extends to the elderly, the disabled and learner drivers.
Repatriating bike from France
10 May 2018
I was involved in a collision in France that resulted in me being carted off to the local hospital.
Game Over
03 May 2018
Where do you stand when an accident provokes your family into banning you from bikes?
