re frame a bike? legality?

[Welshd1k]

say i could get a cat b/a bike if i get anothr frame and V5 then i can swap it all over correct then inform dvla of engine change
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You can re-bike a frame but re-framing a bike is more tricky. The identity of the bike is in fact the identity of the frame.

Hope that makes sense.
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[mad4it028]

strictly speaking you cant do it because your using more than 75% or whatever % of another bike but in reality they cant proove that so just say you bought an engine and changed numbers with dvla
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[N cee thirty]

mattspratt reframed his old r6 i think,thead on here somewhere
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[Welshd1k]

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[Gazdaman]

As above, I've reframed a bike before. The identity is with the frame, so as long as you keep the v5 for the frame, and the finished bike becomes the frame's reg.

Then send off the v5 with the new engine number, job's a goodun.

Gaz

[weasley]

Well you can't re-use any parts off of a Cat A bike (the whole thing must be crushed), and with Cat B you can only re-use serviceable, non-structural parts. Counts out things like subframes, swingarms, front ends etc.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Insurance categories is a strange area. It appears that the categories are assigned by the insurance companies with an attempt to make it seem like they are legally binding. However it appears that VOSA will often do a VIC check on a cat a or b vehicle which it will likely pass as it is mainly checking the id (ie, that it isn't a stolen car being given the write offs identity), and once that is done the DVLA will accept it.

Doesn't appear to be any legal backing behind what parts (if any) from a write off can't be reused.

All the best

Keith
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