Road tax catch-22

Jamie's DT50 - he does his CBT on it on 7 January. Auntie Carole won't
allow him to be insured before that because he's not allowed to ride on
the road without doing his CBT.

Fair enough. So the policy runs from 7 January.

Can't tax the bike because he has to have valid insurance, and for the
first week in January he won't.

He can't do his CBT on a bike that doesn't have valid documentation,
including a tax disc.

FFS.

 

http://www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/

Will that help?


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Nope. Got as far as keying in the reg number and document refernece
number and then it said it couldn't proceed any further.

Only solution I can see is I trailer the bike to the training centre on
the 7th, and while Jamie is doing the pre-flight briefing or whatever
happens (I dunno - my bike test pre-dates CBT or, indeed, learner 125s)
I grab all the paperwork and rush off to the nearest post office and get
the tax disc there, then rush back and stick it on the bike.

Fucking ridiculous.

 

would you becoming a named rider on his insurance policy be of any use ,
there would be no reason then for the policy not to be in operation

 

Technically dodgy, but assuming it's in his name at present, tax it using
the logbook green slip with your details filled in on it, and you insured on
it - DVLA don't acknowledge any change of keeper until the main bit of the
logbook is sent to them.

HTH

 

From what I've read, TOG enjoys his food and booze. This tends
to lead to a fuller figure(Yep, I've got one as well)

TOG + JAMIE on 3bhp DT50 sounds like a comical and slow combination to me.

 

The Older Gentleman emerged from their own little world to say

This is the sort of situation colour laser printers and image editing
software were invented for.

 

You of all people are very well placed to kick up a right royal stink.

Suggest you get on wiv it #

 

Oh, FFS why did you have to post that? I'd hired the camera crew and
everything.

 

Are they sending the paperwork out early?

If they do, you can always just go round a few post offices and try to
tax it before the 7th. If they don't, are you really going to chance it
that it doesn't arrive on the 7th before the CBT starts? My postie
doesn't get up before 11am (well, he doesn't start delivering around
here anyway).

How about just doing the CBT on one of their bikes?

 

This is what I've just tried to do, if you read the OP.

 

Can't ride the bike legally, because it's not taxed, and with my luck
I'd get nicked by one of those auto camera thingies on the way to the
PO.

Secondly, his CBT starts half an hour before the PO opens.....

 

It's been off the road for 11 years....

It was, but I changed it to his name a month or so ago. This was, I now
realise, a mistake.

No.

 

wrote

Hired! I would do it for free.

 

Sorry, didn't see a bit that says you tried, just the bit that says it
can't be done. Thought this was a result of your reading of the law
rather than actually going round multiple post offices and trying it out
(don't give up at just one). I'd try a smaller, tell them it's his
birthday present for the 7th of January (as long as his birthday isn't
on the insurance certificate) and you want it all ready for when you
give it him in the morning. Some old granny in a rural post office has
got to have a heart.

 

I'm sure whoever you spoke to at AC is talking bollocks. There's nothing
to prevent them issuing insurance. It's up to the rider to make sure
he/she is legal.

 

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:04:58 +0000,

Register bike to you (it's not like it'll survive long enough to have
another owner) insure the bike under your name with him as a named
rider, cancel policy within the 14-day cooling off period.

When he's done his CBT (why don't the riding school provide a bike?)
swap owners and insurers.

 

Beav emerged from their own little world to say

TOG would lose the £3.50 discount

 

No time

The riding school does provide mopeds to do CBT on. But they are *all*
twist and go scooters - and this is a conventional five-speed
motorcycle. So he won't learn to ride it.

 

See reply elsewhere. The CBT loaners are twist and go scooters - and
this is a five-speed motorcycle.