Buying a bike with no tax?

[veeeffarr]

Hi,

I'm looking at a '96 GPZ500S with no MOT or Tax.

Seller says he will put MOT on before I buy it, but not the Tax.

How am I going to tax it so I can legally ride it away bearing in mind I'll need an insurance certificate and the MOT certificate?

Can I legally ride it with no tax for a certain amount of time?

It's declared SORN.

Cheers,

T

[Bendy]

Well, you could get the docs together, waiting a few days for them to arrive, go buy tax and then collect the bike.

Or you could live life on the edge and just ride it home with no tax.

[Whosthedaddy]

I'd agree with the latter, just do it.
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[T1z3R]

or you could read the million (exaggeration i know) other posts about the same thing,

legally you cant ride it without tax so you cant ride it home....legally
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[NSR Mick]

just ride it. If you get pulled just make sure you have the reciept on you and I'm pretty sure a decent copper would let it go if you where on your way home.
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[cestrian]

I got my GS500 brought home on a bike trailer.

But as for my Bandit, I called the insurance company the day before I collected the bike, arranged my insurance, they immediately faxed it to the dealer and sent the docs to them for the next day (just in case), he taxed it and rode off into the sunset, well not quite, no sunsets in Leicester.

Just get the cover note sent to you as quickly as possible, get the other docs and tax the bike. Please run the risk of being pulled over by a copper. You know the pigs pay more attention to bikes and are more likely to do a check on it.

Gordon

[extreme3d]

I'm assuming he won't include the cost of tax in the deal, but can't you just pay the seller the amount needed (£46) and then get him to tax it for you?

He will have the new MOT cert and his own insurance cert so it won't be a problem. You don't need any special form to un-sorn a vehicle.

[veeeffarr]

[angryjonny]

[veeeffarr]

Not going to pass up a mint condition GPZ for £40 though...

[Mr.Everready]

[Pete.]

Technically you cannot ride it on the road unless you are displaying a valid tax disc (this includes carrying it in your pocket/wallet BTW).

I bought a bike last week on Monday, MOT'd in Tuesday, insured it Wednesday morning over the phone (put on cover immediately), rode it to & from work Thursday and Friday while waiting for the insurance docs to arrive and my wife taxed it midday on Friday. I haven't tried to avoid paying road tax because the new tax backdates to the start of the month before I bought it, but I did understand I was taking a risk by doing it.

If you had your purchase receipt, MOT and insurance documents on you though you'd have an excellent chance of not getting reported if you were stopped.

Make sure you get the little green slip with the barcode off the log book or you 'll have to wait for the new log book to return to you before you can tax the ZZR.

[wristjob]

you have got a cover note from your insurance and the new mot just ride to the nearest post office and buy a tax disk.
simple.

[Mr.Everready]

How will he have a cover note ?
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[Itchy]

Look just give the guy £62 quid to go buy tax for you , be much simplier ,
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[Itchy]

sort out your insurance before bringing it home?
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[extreme3d]

How are you paying for the bike, if it's a cheque then you will have to wait 7 days for it to clear anyway. Give's you loads of time to gather all the necessary docs as Bendy said above, and get the tax disk.

If paying by cash you will just have to ask him nicely if he will mind hanging on to it for a few days whilst you get it taxed. Naturally he will look at you strangely and think 'geek' as everyone else would just be a rebel and ride it home . You will have the new owners V5 slip in your pocket after all as proof you've just got the thing

[Ste]

Just ride it home without tax, it's no big deal.

[shorty]

If you are really worried remember that you are entitled to ride to and from an MOT testing centre, without tax, if you have a pre-arranged appointment.

If it was me I'd just ride it.

Shorty
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[krebsy]

I agree... you can legally ride it to and from the MOT centre without tax. Same applies if you've just bought it as you have "just had it MOT'd".

I did that with my ZZR, just grabbed it from the shop, rode home, nipped into town in the car, got the tax, etc. You'll be fine riding it from the shop straight to the post office, buy your disk and then get it back home again. in the unlikely event of getting pulled over then you are simply heading home "after an MOT."

K.
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[ColdInsomnia]

I rode my TZR for weeks without tax, but of course I made sure not to park it anywhere public - it was always parked on driveways.

Reason being was I forgot to get a new keeper supplement from the guy I bought it off so I had to wait for the official docs to come in the post before I could get tax.

I'd say ride it home but of course, you'll be in the shit if you're that unlucky and get caught.

So the question is...
How lucky do you feel?
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[feef]

insure it, go to the seller, sort out the paperwork, go to a postoffice and tax it, then go back and ride away.

not that difficult..

is the hassle of potentially getting stopped without tax worth the 30 mins spent going and coming back with tax

a
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