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.
Taxing Times
21 Jul 2016
I’m lucky enough to have four bikes in my stable including two old Fireblades. Anyway, long story short is over the winter I made a Statutory Off Road Notice (SORN) declaration on all the bikes.
Pigs on the run
14 Jul 2016
I was on my daily commute to work on a dual carriageway when a pig (yes a pig!) escaped through the farmer’s old broken fence and ran straight out in front of me causing me to swerve, crash into the central reservation and fall off. Not my best day out ever.
You Pay Monkeys…
07 Jul 2016
I was riding my fairly old FireBlade along a straight stretch of rural Suffolk on a 60mph A-road. I saw an Isuzu pick-up and trailer waiting to turn out of a farm to my left. I rolled off the throttle, just in case.
Did I stirrup some trouble?
30 Jun 2016
I had an altercation with some horse riders while I was out on my Yamaha R1, which is fitted with aftermarket exhaust cans that are not approved for road use.
Is filtering finding fair?
23 Jun 2016
I was knocked off my bike while riding up the inside of a line of traffic. A driver pulled into my path, out of a side road to my left, having been flashed out by a van driver who was a little bit ahead of me.
Knock out blow
09 Jun 2016
What happens if you have no memory of an accident? Do you just make it up? Will the courts buy your version of events?
A horn ain’t noise pollution
02 Jun 2016
Old cases often refer to drivers or riders ‘sounding their horn,’ but the use of the horn has come to be seen as more of a rebuke than a warning and sometimes as an excuse for road rage.
Will Brexit affect bikers?
26 May 2016
What happens to bikers if we leave the European Union? Over the years, the EU has been involved with – or blamed for – legislation connected to everything from border controls and import duties to the riding test and horsepower limits. What will happen if we vote to say in or stay out?
An ordeal over a wheel
19 May 2016
I was hit from behind with quite a clunk, which tipped me off my Triumph Tiger 800. Luckily I received only bumps and bruises, but because I hit my head on the kerb I want to claim for my helmet as well as the damage to my bike.
Don’t let the Red Mist get you
12 May 2016
One of the fairly common accident scenarios I get is when riders overtake drivers who do something peculiar when the rider is alongside.
Right turn, wrong turn
05 May 2016
I was waiting to turn right into a pub car park with my wife as a pillion when a rider came flying down the outside of the traffic, heading straight towards me.
He’s Behind You!
28 Apr 2016
Screwed from behind? And then the insurance company follows suit? What should you do next?
Break the ice
21 Apr 2016
Sky, road, sky, road, sky, road… hedge. That was my view after I hit ice and clattered off my CG125. This trashed the bike and broke my arm. Now imagine an upturned tortoise laying on his shell with his legs moving, trying to right himself. That’s how I looked as I am a portly middle […]
Wheelie stupid
14 Apr 2016
Am I knee-deep in the proverbial? I went to a track day last September on my new R1 with a couple of mates. When we left we were all feeling a little lively and set off home ‘enthusiastically’.
Not Fit For Duty
07 Apr 2016
If you can’t continue life in the Army because your arm hurts, make sure the guilty party coughs up…
Dark visors and legal grey areas
31 Mar 2016
Shoei and Bell,among other visor and helmet manufacturers have brought out ‘photochromatic’ or ‘reactolite’ visors, which darken in direct sunlight. I think this is a brilliant idea but, like conventional dark visors, is illegal if the visor tints to any appreciable degree in the sun.
Future representation
24 Mar 2016
I was on my Urban Tiger ‘Blade when a van pulled out from a petrol station directly in front of me. I had no chance and slammed into the side of it.
