Speedo requirement for MOT (sorry if this is a repeat)

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I have been reading this - https://www.transportoffice.gov.uk/crt/doitonline/bl/mottestingmanualsandguides/mottestingmanualsandguides.htm
and i just cannot see for looking the part about speedo requirement for MOT. My speedo on a CBR125 no longer works, it is not the drive or the cable but the speedo itself, the MOT is due next week and was wondering if i need to replace it with a second hand one before then or if it is not covered by the current 2014 MOT test specification
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[chris-red]

It needs to work but isn't tested so shouldn't matter.
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[P.]

Present but not tested.

Illegal on the road if its not working... but who would know

[wr6133]

Not checked on MOT but a requirement I think under C&U, so basically your MOT tester won't give 2 shits but a copper would if you get a speeding tug and try to say "my speedo is dead so I was pacing to the car that went shooting of ahead of me".

Have you checked it's not just a loose cable?

[beardface]

On a similar note: indicators are not required for mot but if you still have the switch/button and they don't work you will be failed even if there are no indicators on the bike, we had to split the controls and remove the button then it sailed through
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[davebike]

Indicators are required fro a normal MOT on a bike post 1982

Dave
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[P.]

My KTM is exempt from indicators, despite having front/rear lamps. It also doesn't have a front brake switch which I believe "should" be a fail.

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[chris-red]

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[weasley]

My experience in this matter is thus:

I have a KDX 125 with an obviously smashed and non-working speedo and no indicators. It does have a working headlight and stop/tail light (and number plate light).

I took it for an MoT and dropped it at the place. I walked to the nearest bus stop to get home and before I was even on the bus I got a phone call from them saying "there's no point testing it as it has no indicators". I said that off-road bikes didn't need them according to the manual; he muttered about 25 years of MoT experience and never having heard of this, but said he'd read the MoT manual. He called back and said "right you are, see you later". Later I went back and collected a freshly-MoTed KDX 125, with smashed speedo and no indicators. Note that if it is important, the pillion pegs are also removed, so the bike is only suitable for solo use.
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[chris-red]

It's contradictory IMO...


Direction Indicators

Information This inspection applies to: all motor bicycles except those which either have no front or rear position lamps or have such lamps permanently disconnected, painted over or masked that are
• only used during daylight hours, and
• not used at times of seriously reduced visibility. If this situation occurs the machine presenter should be issued with a VT32 (advisory notice) recording the above.


Exemptions If direction indicators are fitted they must meet the requirements of this inspection, but need not be fitted to a machine which cannot exceed 30mph / 50kph, or was first used before 1 August 1986, or ‘off road’ motor bicycles that are designed to carry only the rider ‘off road’ motor bicycles with side car designed to carry the rider and one passenger in the side car. ‘Off road’ motor bicycles are constructed or adapted primarily for use off road (whether by reason of its tyres, suspension, ground clearance or otherwise).


In the main body it states they need not be fitted that in exemptions states they need not be fitted to certain bikes.
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[weasley]

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