What have you done to your bike today....

[Scrappy]

Great weather again, so went out for a ride on the FTR and stopped at Stowe, had a chat with a young guy who had a 1930's Austin





I've decided the FTR is my favourite out of my three

 

[gazzatriumph]

I can't even get the cover off mine

 

[Scrappy]

I can't even get the cover off mine

How's your recovery going? Hopefully not too long before your back in the saddle

 

[gazzatriumph]

How's your recovery going? Hopefully not too long before your back in the saddle

Slowly, still using a frame but have a boot thing now instead of a caste. Will be going on to crutches soon.
It won't be until next year to get back on the bike and that will depend on how it fixes.

 

[Don the Don]

Slowly, still using a frame but have a boot thing now instead of a caste. Will be going on to crutches soon.
It won't be until next year to get back on the bike and that will depend on how it fixes.

You will get there mate, just get yourself mended and think of riding next year and also a meet up

 

[Big Sandy]

What did I do? Rode it, that's what. Not far, admittedly, probably ten miles or so, make sure everything is working as it should, which it seems to be.

Left leg still isn't quite happy with taking the weight when I pull up, but I'm telling myself it is.

 

[MartytheMartian]

Well today I got my other Bonnie, the blue one, out of the shed and washed her down. Bit of rust on the rear shocks and the wheels have rust spots on the rims (nothing unusual with these shitty Italian rims) but otherwise she seems to have survived her lay-up well and, with a new battery in (Tayna's 'own brand' one) she fired straight up. The Tayna battery claims to have 2ah more oomph than even the Yuasa so hopefully it will keep her spinning fine.

Question for the Brain's Trust -

If you get a bike MOT'ed do you have to tax it immediately even if you ride it hope and then not use it again until, say, the start of the next month or will those bastards we call a government have you for no road tax even if you don't actually have the vehicle on the road after the MOT.

 

[Don the Don]

As Long as you don't get caught you are ok, TAX is the main thing any government wants, Better to have them apart as it won't brake the bank their data base will show it is not taxed I can't say for sure but to be legal you need all three with insurance as insurance may be void if one of the others are missing, Think about how many vehicles on our roads have none as in some cases the fine is cheaper than being legal.

 

[MartytheMartian]

What I'm wondering is, if I wanted to get my other bikes MOT'ed sooner rather than later but don't want to actually put them on the road until May for example would the robbers at Westminster reckon that, by simply being MOT'ed they need also to be taxed. I'd trust anyone else to be decent about such things but I don't trust our fecking tax bandido's.

It pisses me off too that I have to pay full tax on each bike even if I'm not exactly wearing the road out under my wheels. Tax per mile, if it was a a reasonably, fair amount per mile, would be much better/fairer for folks with multiple vehicles. You can't use more than one at a time unless you are exceptionally talented after all. Or just one tax payment for all vehicles you own. Robbing bastards get on my tits.

 

[Don the Don]

What I'm wondering is, if I wanted to get my other bikes MOT'ed sooner rather than later but don't want to actually put them on the road until May for example would the robbers at Westminster reckon that, by simply being MOT'ed they need also to be taxed. I'd trust anyone else to be decent about such things but I don't trust our fecking tax bandido's.

It pisses me off too that I have to pay full tax on each bike even if I'm not exactly wearing the road out under my wheels. Tax per mile, if it was a a reasonably, fair amount per mile, would be much better/fairer for folks with multiple vehicles. You can't use more than one at a time unless you are exceptionally talented after all. Or just one tax payment for all vehicles you own. Robbing bastards get on my tits.

NO, you don't have to do them at the same time, taking a vehicle for a MOT pre booked is deemed okay if not going to be used until later for Tax that's no problem if not used that's what I do, I still don't trust the coppers mind.

 

[gazzatriumph]

My first MOT on the RE is due in June, I sorn the bike in the winter. I won't be MOTing it or taxing it until I can ride it. I'll still insure it is is worth doing fully comp or just third party fire and theft until it gets on the road. Does TPFT still count or keep your no claims, like the taxman can't trust insurance companies.

 

[Big Sandy]

Mot, but on SORN, can tax online when required, then re-sorn if you want. You can ride legally to and from the MOT station. Let's face it, can't tax without an MOT, so they can't have you for that.

 

[Scrappy]

What I'm wondering is, if I wanted to get my other bikes MOT'ed sooner rather than later but don't want to actually put them on the road until May for example would the robbers at Westminster reckon that, by simply being MOT'ed they need also to be taxed. I'd trust anyone else to be decent about such things but I don't trust our fecking tax bandido's.

It pisses me off too that I have to pay full tax on each bike even if I'm not exactly wearing the road out under my wheels. Tax per mile, if it was a a reasonably, fair amount per mile, would be much better/fairer for folks with multiple vehicles. You can't use more than one at a time unless you are exceptionally talented after all. Or just one tax payment for all vehicles you own. Robbing bastards get on my tits.

I don't know why ICE vehicles should pay road tax, we are already taxed on the fuel we use, so if you drive a lot of miles or have a large gas guzzler then you pay more tax, which would be fair. Then only have road tax for crappy electric vehicles. Is this too much like common sense for those pricks in Westminster?