Has anyone claimed an abandoned bike?

[Vracktal]

Down the road from me there's a 2002 Yamaha Fazer, i've ridden past it on my commute every day for the last six weeks. It's parked up on the pavement against a wall, no chain although the steering is locked. Over the last weeks it's accumulated several parking tickets and today the council have stuck an orange 'abandoned vehicle' notice to it. Doesn't look to be stolen as far as I can tell.

Curiosity led me to search for it on AskMID and the DVLA database, bike shows as uninsured and DVLA says no record exists for it.

I'm wondering, has anyone ever tried taking possession of an abandoned vehicle? Tried googling what happens to them after the council takes them away and the answers seem to vary between scrap/auction/storage purgatory forever. Some articles also suggest you can write to the DVLA and have it re-registered in your name after a certain period of time elapses, others say you have to write to the council and ask them for it. Doesn't seem to be a set procedure on any official website though?
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[Andy_Pagin]

I think you can bung the DVLA a fiver, explaining your motives, and they'll supply you with the name and address of the registered keeper. Contact the keeper and ask if the bike is in fact abandoned. That way you cover yourself against and future theft allegations. Lack of a DVLA record suggests it's been stolen and written off.
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[Pete.]

Six weeks isn't really abandoned is it? The owner could have fell off it and been off their feet for that long. Council will have put a sticker on it to start the legal process of removal.
having said that, if it disappears the day before the council collect it who is going to care? Apply for a V5 and one of two things will happen - either you'll get a V5 or the owner will act on the letter they get from the DVLA.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[P.addy]

Steal and hide in garage. Leave note where it was saying email you with the reg and you'll give them the location. Say you moved to save fees and theft from scum eyeing it up.

Or dw bout it, not your bike

[iooi]

[Chuffin Nora]

I'd leave well alone, if I were you, for the simple reason that its owner is probably waylaid somewhere or other, up to his neck in an Earth-saving adventure.

Its chameleon circuit is obviously in fine fettle -- they don't all look like 1960s police boxes, you know!
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[DanRLee]

Exact location?
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[Beehive Bedlam]

Someone will have it and strip it for parts if you don't.

[guile]

6 weeks = abandoned?

Don't be ridiculous.

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[NJD]

Time traveled to see what the solution to this was, found the owner, his response;

https://cdn.meme.am/instances/57358144.jpg

[Pol Anorl]

you can try but at any point he can ring ring herro the police and tell them its stolen and youre shafted.
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[sickpup]

Years ago I used to do free recoveries for the local Police when certain ones who knew me asked until one officer unconnected officer decided to accuse me of ringing bikes as I had a stolen Vespa I had been asked to pick up. Took over 3 months to sort that one out.

What you are thinking of doing runs a high risk of you being prosecuted.

[stirlinggaz]

Hi,
I'd take the risk.
pay the £25 & fill in the V62, keep it stored until you hear anything. then.
dvla will write to the last registered keeper & if he has no objections you'll get a V5 in a couple of weeks.
your doin the planet a favour, stopping it get crushed

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[dydey90]

Proof of ownership is just a receipt right? You bought it from your mate, who has since moved to Australia. Here's a hand-written chit to prove it.
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[MarJay]

Prison, posted abroad for work, injured and in hospital, visiting family... These are just a few of the millions of possible reasons why someone might leave a bike on the street for six weeks or more. They could leave it for six years and still consider it theirs.

There is no mechanism to 'claim' an abandoned bike in the same way there is no mechanism to 'claim' a house that has not been lived in, or a car that hasn't been driven. My advice is to forget it.
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[Pol Anorl]

i was going to claim a bike.

I phoned dvla they said "we have no objections to this, fill a v62 and stuff but also phone the police to make sure its not stealings"

contacted popo said call back need more info on vehicle.

i bottled it there as they seemed pretty interested in the bike.
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[lihp]

[Ariel Badger]

Could have been planted there by the police to catch bike thieves in the act.
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[roadracejoe]

Must be a faser thing,We were in Scarborough last year when I noticed a 600 faser which also seemed abandoned, it was chained to railings but had a few parking tickets which dated back a few months !! I will be back there next week, wonder if it's still there

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