Devon TRF Group Forum

mudplugger · Novice

how to get a v5 ( log book ) for a bike with no details

devondan · Champion

Get a dating letter from Yamaha or an owners club, that will cost about £40, get it Mot'd and insured on the frame number, then go to the VRO and fill in a V55/5 application to register a vehicle, you'll have to tax it and pay a registration fee. Sometimes the VRO will ask to inspect it to check the frame numbers etc. My 1979 YZ 250 was easy! The IT 400 is next!

mudplugger · Novice

Thank you I will pass on the information :O)

Lath Ktm Holvey · Clubman A

im currently doing my crf250x for road use. its a phone call to yamaha for the dating letter, maybe a small charge (well worth it) then call up an insurer and insure it on the number (20min job) then go to dvla and print out a v55/5 form. fill it in, get an mot. take all details to dvla with around 70quid,or send it to them. wait 2 weeks maybe less. and put a number plate on it.. its really an easy proccess and isnt half as much hard work as it seems. and if you come to see it, the value will be atleast double due to what it is and being on the road. Id crack on with it :)

Lath Ktm Holvey · Clubman A

go to dvla website*

TTR · Powermonger!!

Do you get an age-related registration number or a Q plate?

devondan · Champion

With a dating letter (£40) from Yamaha you get an age related number- email their ciustomer services, or some clubs can do it, but they all charge ,

You cant do it through the DVLA web site, you have to collect or be sent a V55/5, I filled mine in at the office and waited in the queque 40mins later it was legal.

Simples!

Dan

-- Edited by devondan on Sunday 9th of October 2011 09:30:45 AM

Pete · Devon's Best

How to piss people off and bring the TRF into disrepute in four easy steps:

Take a motocross bike, register it, claim that makes it legal, ride it on the lanes

If the CRF/YZ/IT has a silencer fitted in preparation for road use I apologise for the above, but in standard trim it does not have to conform to road going construction and use regulations which allow a far greater amount of noise from a motox machine than that allowed for road machinery.

This thread which started with a question about a DT125, a venerable trail bike, highlights a glaring loophole in the law the exploiitation of which explains a great deal of the current hostility toward motorised users of green roads.

Big T · Expert

There is still a requirement for an MOT w.r.t. noise levels etc. So IF the MOT-er does a proper job, then there shouldn't be an issue.

Pete · Devon's Best

Big T wrote:
There is still a requirement for an MOT w.r.t. noise levels etc. So IF the MOT-er does a proper job, then there shouldn't be an issue.

Quite true. Big IF though, because the noise issue is down to the opinion of the MOT tester. There are stipulated limits but there is no requirement to test or check conformity. My ears tell me some MOT testers are either deaf or unscrupulous and do not care, and clearly people have taken advantage.

devondan · Champion

Fear ye not Pete, I am a lover of stealth trail bikes and the only reason the YZ is registered is to ride it at Haccadown etc - I race it when I can and I'm not wasting a short life piston on the lanes!!

The IT however is a different matter it was built to be road registered and is well silenced so please not jump to conclusions. As for the MOT, I agree, I'd not assume that just because it passes an MOT it will be reasonably quiet, any E DRZ proves that point.

But this is going off topic, this was about registration.

Andy KLX · Clubman B

My crf450 came from Mr Honda with a silencer stamped at 82db , I've been on lots of trail rides and had the quietest
Bike !

adamxr · Novice

does anyone have problems with the vat forms dvla now send out to people wanting to register used bikes. how are we supose to know if vat has been paid on older second hand bikes ?? any of you people above ran into this problem.