Guy's and Gal's...

In light of the response to the cancellation of the next "Buddy rideout" event which was to take place in the coming weeks, I would like to clarify a couple of issues which may or may not be know to one and all regarding events such as this...

Whenever an event such as a the Buddy rideouts, there must be backing from a legal entity such as the EMSF...sports organisation or the like to keep above board and someone who is ultimately accountable should anything go wrong...

Unfortunately, Dubai Petrolheads does not have this authority, nor does any of it's members. If there happened to be an accident, incident or the like which involved a rider or third party being injured or worse, killed, someone would be held responsible, that is the law of the land out here...Like it or not, someone would have to stand up and be accountable for organising an event which was not sanctioned by a recognised, official body...

As sad as this is, people must realise that, no matter what kind of event you are arranging, be it an off-road event, road based event, for cars or bikes, there must be a legal body to sanction it and take on responsibility for the actions of the event...Unfortunately, the Dubai Petrolheads cannot and will not, and are in no position to sanction these kind of events and cannot be seen to be involved in organising official "rideouts" etc due to the legal implications as mentioned above.

Whilst we have people who are more than willing and capable of carrying out such events successfully, this does not make it legal or official. For all of you who participated in the first and last event of it's kind organised through the forum, I hope (and know) it was a success for all who took part. For the "lead" riders on this event...I know that you are more than capable in leading this type of even and that you are thanked from all who took part in the ride out...But, unfortunately, there will be no more rideouts organised through the Dubai Petrolheads Forum for the above reasons...

I hope you all understand the seriousness of this issue. I would also hope that whilst there are willing riders out there willing to lead such events, the rest of us would not wish them any redress should anything go awry on any such events.

Many thanks for your understanding on this issue and I would welcome any constructive comments you may like to add to this thread...

For and behalf of the Dubai Petrolheads...

All of the above information is correct. However - there may be a way to make sure all are protected. I will call you soon Adam to chat....

Ok.....then why don't we have the next rideout, anyway, and let it just be a bunch of mates riding out !

  thank you....thankyou

First of all we have to respect it, no discussion at all,

but imagine, what will happen than when accidentally (i mean it really) some riders meet each other and plan to go further together......

more than one rider by hisself out there is an illegal event?

I am used to go all by myself and i hope i dont meet anybody out there in the desert.... (not even in a case of a breakdown) because if there is not one single person to make responsible for this "body ride" they gonna make any of the participants responsible for breaking the law ?!??....

So guys be careful.

It always worries me that I am being unnecessarily paranoid, however as you say the laws are different here and their is ALWAYS the need to shift the blame to someone else.
However I remember a very famous case in aviation in the US, where a flying instructor failed a private pilot on his 'taildragger' (light aircraft with a tailwheel instead of the easier to fly nosewheel equipped)  rating, the said pilot went flying anyway and ground-looped his aircraft. 
He was seriously injured and successfully sued the instructor, the flying club, the aircraft manufacturer and the guy who wrote the book that got him interested in flying tail-draggers.  The reason he got away with it is no-one explicitly specified how dangerous it was compared with the nose-wheel aircraft in writing. 

im a newbie here, well not but havent posted a lot though. guys chill, i believe this isnt us of a.no body's gonna sue you if they spill coffee on their own lap and the complain it was hot.the rights in us are way way way stronger than you can imagine in uae 
and you're doing good on your part, i remember while visiting san francisco, i saw a sign on the cliff edge "deep bottomless pit, you may injure your self incase you fall" and i was like wtf, who doesnt know that guess people like to sue
but yeah nutcases do exist, neways thanks for the heads up.
stay safe

sounds totally illegal to me, get hose pipes fitted
ask yourself, what would Ogri do?