How do I contact Honda UK?

[Smethy]

Hi and hope you all had a great Christmas.
Am wanting to change my crosser to road legal. I know I need to contact Honda UK (address and saying what?) and need to contact the DVLA - saying what?
Any advice or links to other sites would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

[silky666]

1) Call Honda and ask for a certificate of newness for an age related plate / or just go with a Q plate

2) Go to local MOT place and get a daytime MOT
Remove or tape up any lights (unless they are fully working).
All you need for daytime is a reflector at the back of the bike / road legal tyres / an electric horn (cannot be one of the old 'pump ones) (Halfords) / and a speedo (although they dont check to see if it is working ?)
(bike will obviously need to be road worthy i.e. no oil leaks, good brakes etc etc)

3) Get insurance on the frame number (Carol Nash will do this for two weeks; you then have to give them the plate number when registered)

4) Go on www.dvla.gov.uk and get the registration form / or you can get one over the phone.
Put it down as a 'enduro bike' and you don't need to fill out all the emmssions info / power to weight etc.
(you don't need to fill out things to do with the MSVA test)

5) Go to your local DVLA with all your paperwork ( inc passport and utility bill) you pay them £?? (about £100) which includes your tax for a year. No need to take the bike.

Whilst there, book the bike in for a inspection.

6) Return on your inspection date (they measure seat height and ground clearance) and will tell you on the day of inspection its registration Number and give you a tax disc

7) Dont forget to give the registration number to your insurance company.
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[Smethy]

Thats great info - many thanks.

[prawny1]

Off road vehicles i.e. motocross bikes, don't need to be s.v.a tested.

The tenth digit on the frame number is the age check digit and should be enough to prove bikes year of manufacture, You could be cheeky any just go for an 09/59 plate or wait untill 2010 and try for one.

The fact that your mx bike has never been registered for road use anywhere in the world before means as far us the dvla are concerned it can be registered as new.

One perfect example of this is the hyosung cruise 2 125 most if not all of these bikes sold by j&s in the midlands are 1997 model bikes as shown by the date of manufacture on the chassis plate, but they always had the new years regs on in the showroom.

my 2001 reg bike was a 97 model as was every bike in the show room for the thre years that I frequented them for service parts,The last one I saw in a car park a couple years back was on an 07 plate and sure enough had an 97 chassis tag.

[Barry_M2]

[Kickstart]

Hi

Not sure on the position of SVA for registering off road bikes. However if you do need to SVA it then the job will become a nightmare.

Barrys NSR is old enough that it would not need to be SVAed.

All the best

Keith
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[Smethy]

Thanks again - just sent letter off to Honda so will keep you posted!

[smegballs]

This is interesting,

what would one do if the bike in question had no frame number?

I don't mean a stolen grinded job, but a new, unstamped frame from the factory that was a off-road spec (hence no number) machine?

[Kickstart]

Hi

Not sure. Might be that one is issued (think there is something in the SVA documentation about letting the person borrow the stamps from the SVA tester to stamp the chassis).

However in the situation you mention where it is a brand new frame with an existing engine, etc, I expect the SVA testers would get rather suspicious about it being a stolen bike.

All the best

Keith
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[prawny1]

[smegballs]

Looks like I'm pretty screwed then and I'll have to find a frame with V5 somewhere then. DTR125 by the way.

Cheers guys,

/hijack