Motorbike Accident Claims Solicitors

As will be obvious to anyone reading this site, I am not in my 20’s any more. I started motorcycling at 17 and didn’t even get a car licence until I was 26. I then gave up bikes in the belief that I ought to start looking a bit more “respectable”, given my job- looking back on it, a baseless worry. I would have been far better off keeping the bikes and sod the image. Coming back to bikes in my late 40’s, it struck me forcibly how the overall public perception of bikes and bikers has changed in the meantime, mostly for the better.

I am an enthusiastic browser of charity shops, especially for old books. A happy few hours harmlessly trolling among boxes of dusty hardbacks donated by the next of kin from grandad’s box room can unearth gems of long-out-of-print wisdom.

….as witness this little offering from 1976 or thereabouts…..

Bike Spotter
Mr C J Dibworth, our county correspondent writes:-

My riding style has always been fairly sedate. I was never in the least bit taken with racing or scratching, except perhaps for the first few months of my very first bike. Decking it on a wet corner on lousy Jap tyres after 6 weeks cured me of grounding the footpegs and from then on, I was very much a touring-orientated rider. I like my motorcycling comfortable and civilized. High speed is fine and I like that too, but it just emphasises the need for long-distance comfort.

A Bideford man who suffered back injuries in a motorcycle crash in February 2009 has secured compensation of nearly £40,000 at Exeter county court from Devon County Council. Graham Mills, a former member of the Parachute Regiment, who lives in Lanefield Road, was riding a Suzuki motorcycle along Abbotsham road, just by the former Grenville College. He rode through what he thought was a puddle, but which hid a large pothole, and was thrown from the bike.