Is the B31 still on the DVLA register ? Swansea told me when I brought my Commandos out that the registrations remained valid for if I should wish to re-import.
Bringing a bike over to ride in either direction is OK as long as it's registered and you take it out again. That will work both ways. I can't imagine they'll note everything down but a van has much more chance of being stopped.
Not that I would be encouraging people to circumvent paying taxes which we all know are there for our benefit (??? )
Take the new parts out of their packaging
Wrap them in oily paper towel, put in a plastic bag secured with rubber bands.
Use old dirty oil and perhaps some newspaper.
At the border, they are your riding spares because as they all know these old bikes are very frail & break down all the time ..
Put your new bars on the bike & the old ones in the pannier which is there in case it falls off the stand & bends the bars so you can ride home legally .
I think when I go to France next with my bike in my Van. I will make sure to have my V5C, insurance document and green card for the bike, to hopefully dispel any suspicion that the bike is being transported for export. Ron
I thought we in the UK were supposed to carry log book, insurance etc when we were in the European Union pre brexit?
Pre EU UK registered vehicles were only allowed in some other countries for a limited time period, I would imagine that may be the case again now, isn't it the case that if you have a second home in France a UK citizen without a second EU citizenship is now legally obliged to return home to the UK for a set period too?
An old vehicle not currently registered anywhere may be classified differently depending on its current location, I have at least one machine which is as yet unregistered because I'm yet to get it into a state that it could be in the UK.
You might well be right Rob. But I never even thought to take documents with me and I never heard that my companions did either. But it will be on my agenda from now on. Ron
