swapping plates

[cammy mack]

say you had 2 bikes of the same make and model. ones in not bad condition, the other is a shitter. but, you take the plate from the shitter and put it on the other bike.

whats the consequences if you tugged and rumbled

[Martay]

Provided you own both the bikes, i should think its ok. Remember the frame + engine nos. would need swapping too.
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[cammy mack]

my mate ( i use that term loosely) is a bit of a thick cunt and has merely swapped plates so the frame and engine no's wont match.

[MaybeGuy]

i once rode my VFR400 with my R6 plate on it.
nothing happened.
i imagine if i was pulled over i'd be pretty fucked though.
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[P.]

i have often wondered that.
Say you buy 2 new unregistered bikes, get the frame number and engine number from 1st one and stamp them on other 1..so say you drop one you can just get back on the road without buying 2nd insurance...I know its illegal...but its possible and most of the time if you dont ride like a tit and obviously have 2 diff colours, you may get away with it..

Still, illegal i believe.

[ms51ves3]

The idea crossed my mind a few days ago when thinking about buying another blue 2MA.

I know a guy who owns a few air cooled RDs. He's insured on one 250 and just swaps the plates around. If he wants to ride his 400, he puts the 250 side panels on it as well as the plate

[Kickstart]

Hi

I suppose if they wanted to be really nasty you could be done for riding without insurance (after all, the bike you are riding with the altered chassis numbers, etc, isn't actually the bike you insured). Suspect they could find a few more things to do you for though.

The main reason for altering a chassis number is to sell on a stolen bike. Hence any bike with the chassis number altered will attract attention and be difficult to sell.

All the best

Keith
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[Ariel Badger]

I do not know an old bloke with six bikes on the same plate. Honest.
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[MarJay]

It was Mac_Kaliba who swapped a plate and got done over by the police.

As for swapping engine /frame numbers? Its a stupid and illegal idea. There is even an offence I believe such as "Modifying the identity of a vehicle so as to commit fraud" or something along those lines.

On a car its called 'ringing' and its the kind of thing that gets you 6 months + in prison.
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[cammy mack]

but he's not touched the engine/frame numbers only swapped the plates.

[hmmmnz]

its not really a major with the engine, as these get swapped out all the time,
but bike conversion carries some pretty hefty penalties,
its also something they check on a mot,

i doubt the police would know if you were just riding about, but if you crashed they would pick it up
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[Kickstart]

[warped one]

I once heard of a guy , that aquired 3 Honda CB125tde's. But also had one of his own that waas fully legal but had a few engine problems, so the one in best sondition went into his garage Red and came out Black a few minutes later.

Nothing to to with me officer honest.

He even got stopped a few times but nothing was ever said about it.

Warped
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[Mystery]

he will be riding illegal but will be fine till he gets pulled then will get shafted for everything they can pin on him
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[27cows]

I once had two 250 Superdreams (I must have been Hitler in a past life) and used them with the plates round the wrong way for three months. This was a genuine mistake on my part, I was insured for ride both, and I never got pulled.

These days I would probably get done - the old bill seem to spend 95% of their time checking up on vehicles and seizing on any opportunity to make the woeful stats look a bit better. So don't play into their hands by doing anything silly.

[ms51ves3]

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[MarJay]

[Chris750]

If the engine number didn't match couldn't you just say the last one broke and you put another engine in it.
Over time if things kept breaking and you kept replacing them with bits from another bike (one you bought for spares for instance), I don't see what the differance is? At what point do can they possibly say you cant replace any further parts or it doesn't count as the same bike anymore?

[ms51ves3]

[Mystery]

[mr rip]

I tried that trick & got £250 in fines & 6 points for no insurance for my troubles when I got stopped for a spot check

this was back in the days befor all the details of mots & insurance were kept on computer & they used to pull lots of bikes over just to check them out
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[Kris]

Let's say you bought two Fireblades that were identical and you ground out the frame and engine numbers from both.

Then you insure and tax one bike, leaving the other Sorn'd.

I presume you could move the numberplate between the bikes safe in the knowledge that nobody could prove that the bike you were using wasn't the taxed and insured one...



(Ignoring of course any fines for removing numbers...)
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