Published: February 20, 2007
Burnham-On-Sea YouTube biker speaks out about video story

A Burnham-On-Sea man who was accused of driving his motorcycle through a built-up area at up to 100 miles per hour, filming the ride and then posting the footage on the Web, has spoken out for the first time.

Burnham-On-Sea.com exclusively broke the story last week after Jeremy Parrott, 37, was questioned by town police officers when they saw his video on YouTube.

The video shows a Yamaha R1 superbike driving through traffic, squeezing between two cars driving in opposite directions and returning to Parrott's home address.

The film does not show the driver, and Parrott has not admitted being the driver. The camera was mounted so that it recorded the driver's-eye view of the road as well as the speedometer, as pictured here.

Not only did the motorcycle begin and end its journey at Parrott's home address, it shows a vehicle number plate in the drive way, which may have helped police trace him.

"They came and knocked on my door and said I've come to talk to you about the words YouTube and R1," Parrott said in an interview with Motorcycle News published this week.

In the magazine interview, he neither categorically denies nor admits being the rider of the bike.

"I wasn't the rider of the bike necessarily," he said. "I'm not saying it's me."

When asked could he explain why the motorcycle began from and returned to his house he simply said "no".