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…
Tax Dodge
19 Apr 2018
My solicitor has told me to accept an offer to settle my claim after I got spanked off my ZX-12R, broke my ankle and was off work for six months.
False Economy
12 Apr 2018
I got knocked off my Multistrada by a taxi driver about 18 months ago. The taxi driver’s insurer admitted liability and offered to deal with me directly about my claim.
Without reasonable consideration
05 Apr 2018
I have received a Notice of Prosecution for “driving without reasonable consideration” and it requests I identify the rider.
Wheel of terror
29 Mar 2018
I took my Bandit 1200 to have a new tyre fitted. I rode it for about 2500 miles through the summer.
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?
