Legal Q&A
Legal Q&A
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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
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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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LEGAL Q&A: Coming back from Spain
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Q. I have always wanted to live in Spain, so after the dreaded COVID-19 malarkey, I decided to take the plunge. I got all my worldly possessions shipped down to near Malaga in 2022, including my KTM 1190 Adventure. My plan was to get my bike registered in Spain. However, after a lot of faffing about and false…
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Q&A: Police ‘legal exemption’
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Q. My daily ride is a Triumph Street Triple 765 RS. I have about a 10-mile commute with the latter part along a busy high street to my office (I am an estate agent). I had just passed a double-decker bus which had stopped, unsurprisingly, at a bus stop. As I had just pulled back…
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Q&A: Beware of ‘Operation Snap’
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Q. I have been a biker for the last 40-odd years and had all sorts over the years from BSAs to VFRs. Now I am a bit older and have a bit more money, I entered the Gold Wing era of my life about two years ago. It was something I thought I would never…
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Q&A: White Line Woes
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Q Despite living in a tiny village, we have a huge concentration of bikers. We started a club about 15 years ago and we’ve got around 15-20 ‘oldies’ and about 10 ‘young ‘uns’ and. Over Easter we decided to arrange a group ride out to the coast. About 10 or so lads and lasses rocked…
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Q&A: Truck washing caused ‘off’
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Our specialist motoring solicitor Andrew Prendergast guides readers through their legal trials and troubles Q I am an all-year-round biker because I don’t have a car licence and love riding bikes. I got ‘bitten by the biking bug’ back in the nineties, and I’ve ridden all around the world twice (amongst many other trips). I…
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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
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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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Legal Q&A: Snow from car floors biker
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Q I am an all-year-round biker doing about 40,000 miles a year whether it be rain, sunshine or snow. To be blunt, I do not have a choice because I do not have a car, so the bike is it. Whilst it snowed at the back end of last year, the roads were generally pretty…
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