KLX250 Prize Draw Number w/c 27 July 2018
27 Jul 2018
Check your prize draw card(s) to see if you have won a brand new motorbike. The winning number(s) for the week commencing 27 July 2018 is…
Win £250 of bike kit!
29 Jun 2018
Have you heard about our new monthly competition? Do you fancy winning £250 worth of bike kit vouchers? Then read on.
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?
Insurance and the aftermarket
26 Apr 2018
If you are, or soon will be, buying a new bike the odds are that sometime during the process the sales person will come to you with an accessories catalogue and your bank account will cringe.
KLX250 Prize Draw Number w/c 20 April 2018
20 Apr 2018
Check your prize draw card(s) to see if you have won a brand new motorbike. The winning number(s) for the week commencing 20 April 2018 is…
Is touching my sat-nav illegal?
22 Mar 2018
I have a fancy Garmin-made BMW sat nav on my R1200GS, which works with a thumb-wheel control on the left-hand bar. However, a police friend of mine told me that, notwithstanding the thumb ring, if I operated the sat nav while riding I would be committing an offence.
Snow and ice on the roads
15 Mar 2018
If you come off your bike due to ice on the roads, who’s at fault? Andrew Dalton explains the laws behind council responsibilities for gritting highways
Track day issues
08 Mar 2018
Some of you may have heard that road traffic insurance is compulsory for track days following the European Court of Justice’s decision in a case called Vnuk.
Whose insurance pays out in a motorcycle accident?
01 Mar 2018
Two motorbikes, two Insurance companies, one fire and one mess. Insurance of first motorbike to catch fire pays for both
Pinched while parking
22 Feb 2018
My bike was parked in a locked car park in central London. I paid £6 for the privilege and it then transpired that my bike was stolen, probably by use of battery powered angle grinders on my security chain. Can I sue the car park owners?
Prosecution by mobile phone
25 Jan 2018
I am sure readers of Bike are wise enough not to use apps that show on social media their riding patterns, or otherwise invite thieves to know the exact pattern of movement of their motorcycles. But such apps do exist, for the dull witted.
