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  • Q&A: Faulty Carbon Wheel Crash: Who’s Liable?

    Q&A: Faulty Carbon Wheel Crash: Who’s Liable?

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    Track Day trauma involving a faulty wheel given the once-over by our legal eagle Andrew Prendergast of White Dalton Motorcycle Solicitors Q. I have a very trick GSXR1000 that I bought new. However, I have never ridden on the road and purchased it with the sole purpose of turning it into a track bike. I…

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  • LEGAL Q&A: Insurance advice to ‘takeaway’

    LEGAL Q&A: Insurance advice to ‘takeaway’

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    Q:  I am currently at college studying to be an engineer. As we live out in the sticks and to help me get around and to college, etc., my sister kindly gave me her battered, but indestructible and utterly reliable Kawasaki Z300 after she bought a car. To pay my way through college and help pay towards…

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  • NO MIRRORS: Our legal eagle tells us the law

    NO MIRRORS: Our legal eagle tells us the law

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    Q:  I have been riding bikes since God was a lad and have had all sorts from RD350s to Bandit 1200s, right up to the latest all singing, all dancing GS1300. About two years ago I ended up getting bitten by the green laning bug and bought KTM’s 890 Adventure R. (There are too many bikes…

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  • Q&A: Speeding in Spain

    Q&A: Speeding in Spain

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    Our specialist motoring solicitor Andrew Prendergast guides bikers through their legal trials and troubles Q  I’m a police officer and have been on the job for nearly ten years. I’ve got a mate who’s been in six months longer than me and he has just been revetted. It’s a hot topic at the moment and…

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  • Legal Q&A: Court for chap who taxed wrong bike

    Legal Q&A: Court for chap who taxed wrong bike

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    Q  We are very fortunate and both I and my partner have a bike each in the garage (we bought matching MT-09s a few years ago). As summer was ending, I made a Statutory Off Road Notice (SORN) declaration for both bikes around last September. However, as we had a mild October I got road…

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