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PostPosted: 18:18 - 08 Feb 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Didn’t think they were allowed to lift the dust seals, hence my usual trick of making a packing ring out of bog roll on the eve of the test.
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PostPosted: 01:57 - 09 Feb 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Back tyre fail.
The bike was jammed in the garage, it was miserable outside (snowing), I just got home on Sunday, I am nursing an Achilles tendon/ Gastronomical muscle injury and can hardly walk or stand so I only checked the lights were good. Embarassed

The tyres were good last time I was out on the hoowur last August too.

Tread was en-tyre-ly missing from a large bit of the centre band. £170 for a new tyre.

I am now legal and ready for weather. Bring on the Summer ya bastirt. Cool
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PostPosted: 07:39 - 09 Feb 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

GT200Fan79 wrote:
Didn’t think they were allowed to lift the dust seals, hence my usual trick of making a packing ring out of bog roll on the eve of the test.


Exactly what I was thinking. I'm pretty sure they can't remove or even move gaiters - so not sure why that's different from dust seals?
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PostPosted: 12:01 - 09 Feb 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

BCF wrote:
Dust seals

Scope of Examination

The MOT Test does not allow for any stripping or dismantling, except for the removal of panels or covers, designed to be easily removed without the use of tools, where it is necessary to allow the examination of an item


I guess if you can get the seals out with your fingernails, it's fair dinkum.


trevor saxe-coburg-gotha wrote:
yesterday - back tyre FAIL, front pads FAIL, rear pads FAIL,

MCN wrote:
Back tyre fail.

https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/cryingindian-simpsons-carousel.jpg

You are the reason that the rest of us need to go for MOTs. Sad
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PostPosted: 15:20 - 09 Feb 2018    Post subject: mot Reply with quote

Vosa are a toothless spineless pathetic organisation, unless they happen top be picking on you, mot testing station or not.

They have a "bottomless pit" budget, there words not mine.

They can shut a testing station down and remove the testers license at the drop of a hat for:

Passing too many vehicles.

Failing too many vehicles

Test performed in the wrong order

Test too strick

Test too lienient

Testing station "portraying the wrong image" to the public.


Tester can go to prison and many have !!!

If you do not check your bike over before an MOT, and attend to stuff that you ( YOU !!! ) consider unable to pass a test, they you are a moron.

A sticky throttle !

A worn disc too thin when the minimum dimension is stated on the dam thing.

Lights that don't work and a Feabley quite horn !

Tyres with cuts and worn out.

The MOT TESTERS MANUAL is on line ffs for all to see.

Sometimes its the bike owners and riders that need testing !

I my humble opinion, MOT TESTING should not be in private business hands.

A local farm is an MOT TESTING STATION ffs !!! What does that say ?

However, when oklder bikes and cars become MOT and TAX exempt, I will cheer !! but still have my bike MOT TESTER by a testing station, rather than relying on my own personal judgement.

No bike or car failures or advisories ( that's a cop out, it either passes or fails ! ) for the past 35 years +
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PostPosted: 15:24 - 09 Feb 2018    Post subject: Re: mot Reply with quote

bikenut wrote:
Vosa are a toothless spineless pathetic organisation, unless they happen top be picking on you, mot testing station or not.

They have a "bottomless pit" budget, there words not mine.

They can shut a testing station down and remove the testers license at the drop of a hat for:

Passing too many vehicles.

Failing too many vehicles

Test performed in the wrong order

Test too strick

Test too lienient

Testing station "portraying the wrong image" to the public.


Tester can go to prison and many have !!!

If you do not check your bike over before an MOT, and attend to stuff that you ( YOU !!! ) consider unable to pass a test, they you are a moron.

A sticky throttle !

A worn disc too thin when the minimum dimension is stated on the dam thing.

Lights that don't work and a Feabley quite horn !

Tyres with cuts and worn out.

The MOT TESTERS MANUAL is on line ffs for all to see.

Sometimes its the bike owners and riders that need testing !

I my humble opinion, MOT TESTING should not be in private business hands.

A local farm is an MOT TESTING STATION ffs !!! What does that say ?

However, when oklder bikes and cars become MOT and TAX exempt, I will cheer !! but still have my bike MOT TESTER by a testing station, rather than relying on my own personal judgement.

No bike or car failures or advisories ( that's a cop out, it either passes or fails ! ) for the past 35 years +


Wow, are you related to Teflon Mike?
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PostPosted: 15:53 - 09 Feb 2018    Post subject: Re: mot Reply with quote

GT200Fan79 wrote:
Didn’t think they were allowed to lift the dust seals, hence my usual trick of making a packing ring out of bog roll on the eve of the test.

Is that for all your bikes or just the ones you're about to sell Wink

bikenut wrote:
I my humble opinion, MOT TESTING should not be in private business hands.

Do council MOT places do bikes? I think they charge the maximum so for a car it's a lot more (£55 vs £20 odd from kwik fit), but bikes are £30 so about what you pay anyway. They're touted as the way to avoid kwik fit rogues (I take my chances Smile) but if you want a stringent MOT then that's probably the way to go.
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PostPosted: 16:33 - 09 Feb 2018    Post subject: Re: mot Reply with quote

bikenut wrote:
Vosa are a toothless spineless pathetic organisation, unless they happen top be picking on you, mot testing station or not.

They have a "bottomless pit" budget, there words not mine.

They can shut a testing station down and remove the testers license at the drop of a hat for:

Passing too many vehicles.

Failing too many vehicles

Test performed in the wrong order

Test too strick

Test too lienient

Testing station "portraying the wrong image" to the public.


Tester can go to prison and many have !!!

If you do not check your bike over before an MOT, and attend to stuff that you ( YOU !!! ) consider unable to pass a test, they you are a moron.

A sticky throttle !

A worn disc too thin when the minimum dimension is stated on the dam thing.

Lights that don't work and a Feabley quite horn !

Tyres with cuts and worn out.

The MOT TESTERS MANUAL is on line ffs for all to see.

Sometimes its the bike owners and riders that need testing !

I my humble opinion, MOT TESTING should not be in private business hands.

A local farm is an MOT TESTING STATION ffs !!! What does that say ?

However, when oklder bikes and cars become MOT and TAX exempt, I will cheer !! but still have my bike MOT TESTER by a testing station, rather than relying on my own personal judgement.

No bike or car failures or advisories ( that's a cop out, it either passes or fails ! ) for the past 35 years +


Congratulations, biggest load of bollox I've read all year.

If you can't get basic facts right, STFU!
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PostPosted: 16:40 - 09 Feb 2018    Post subject: Re: mot Reply with quote

bikenut wrote:
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You fucking piece of Adam Aarons.
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PostPosted: 22:19 - 09 Feb 2018    Post subject: Re: mot Reply with quote

M.C wrote:

Is that for all your bikes or just the ones you're about to sell Wink



Cheeky sod.

My 400 did four track days and about 1500 road miles with packing rings above the fork seals. Then I spent 500 quid getting the forks sorted. You’re right though, had I been selling it I would of changed the packing rings for something super absorbent like Plenty before the first idiot came to view it.
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PostPosted: 13:15 - 10 Feb 2018    Post subject: stuff Reply with quote

You are entitled to your opinion, and what's good for the goose etc.... :karma:

An MOT tester on the other hand........has to abide by the "manual", its on line and free for all to see.

So next time your bike is in need of an MOT, look at the manual and actually check/rectify/fix possible items that need sorting on your bike, so it passes with no advisories, which are recorded on the vosa site, or what ever they are calling themselves this week.



Anybody can check a vehicles MOT history, all they need is the reg number and make.

Selling your bike ?
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