OT deSORNing

As they don't ask for a name (or any other info) when you ring up and
they don't know me well enough to recognise my voice then I'm not sure
how anyone would verify my intent against what the dealer knew by way of
the phone call. No evidence.

That much I knew and I haven't done that.

 

daft question - would not the lack of MOT and tax be used by the ins co,
in the event of a claim, as reasons not to pay out? In effect your
bikes were illegal.

 

<choke>

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Bear amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

<G>

 

I'm sure he will see the funny side. I just thought you were clouting
him with a bloody big handbag. It was almost as acerbic as Ginge's
recent "good points" post.

 

snip>

It's dead easy, you just fit non standard brake pads. AP ones did the
job on my 9R

 

Yes it would unless you got one of these they cover you for everything
even a couple of years inside
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Insurance-Cer...995044243QQcategoryZ25632QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

"Personal".

HTH

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Well, Perhaps I just have ubercunts working for my PO, who, when I
enquired about un-sorning a vehicle that was outside of the time period
that the reminder covered [1], was informed that I needed to produce
the latest reg. document plus the usual docs in order to get it taxed.

Mind you, they are the same ones that, despite seeing me week in, week
out, for a while getting the tax for company cars, declined to re-tax a
company vehicle because I didn't have a covering letter with the
company letter-head.

Thinking about it, whenever I've had a vehicle off the road for a while
(before the SORN thing came in) you always had to fill a form in for
that, too, but in those days you didn't need to produce your proof of
ownership.

[1] When the Fiat was in for a lot of expensive work that meant I
wasn't going to be able to tax it when it should have been taxed.

--
Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally

 

I have a fairly liberal/advisory view on most construction and use
regulations or traffic acts but the insurance requirement is one I've
kept to.

 

...and if they fail as warped but don't pulse at the lever? Yes, I did
see the brake meter going up and down.

 

sweller says...

That's the strange thing. Brake levers don't always pulse when the discs
are warped but on the road you can feel the bike juddering on the brakes
quite badly. I've seen bikes on the brake rollers with very obviously
warped discs that have a nice steady lever, but you can feel and see the
readings showing the change in braking forces as you try them.
Conversely my old ZZR discs made the lever pulse like hell but the disc
was only very slightly warped, only just over the service limit in fact.

 

^^^
Complete with a subtle use of the obligatory errror in such posts.
Good work. Keep it up.

 

No the test station needs to have your appointment written down 'somewhere'
hence my earlier post regarding the 'holiday diary'

General ride? Would that be the 24 miles I rode to an MOT station,
deliberately
passing no less than fourteen other testing stations? Calling in to the club
rally
on the way home!

Dave

 

I can trump that with a 1000 mile ride, then a six month break, before
taking it to the MOT station.

 

Since MID came in across the EU these aren't worth the paper they're
written on.

 

1000 miles? You must have taken a fucking long detour then - it's less
than 500 from mine to the channel.

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\`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3
`\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2
`\|/`
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Ah. It was 1000 somethings. Maybe I did my route planning in
kilometres.

 

tax has nothing to do with insurance. Actually, neither does MOT - the
bikes were fully roadworthy (though in the case of the 7R not strictly
MOT-able).

naughty me.

 

that's exactly my take on it.