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From: Steve on 1 Jul 2010 07:41 On 1 July, 12:33, "TOG(a)Toil" <totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > It's a PITA when people get frames power-coated, mind, because the > coating invariably obscures the numbers stamped into the headstock. > And without a visible frame number, you can't get an MoT. That can't be right as pre '69 Harleys had no frame number. Ah - just checked http://www.motuk.co.uk/mcmanual_630.htm "A Vehicle Identification Number is required on all machines first used on or after 1 August 1999, except those which are amateur built" Steve
From: Jim on 1 Jul 2010 07:54 On 01/07/2010 12:41, Steve wrote: > On 1 July, 12:33, "TOG(a)Toil"<totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> It's a PITA when people get frames power-coated, mind, because the >> coating invariably obscures the numbers stamped into the headstock. >> And without a visible frame number, you can't get an MoT. > That can't be right as pre '69 Harleys had no frame number. > Ah - just checked > http://www.motuk.co.uk/mcmanual_630.htm > "A Vehicle Identification Number is required on all machines first > used on or after 1 August 1999, except those which are amateur built" So they would be granted an exception on two counts.
From: TOG on 1 Jul 2010 08:00 On 1 July, 12:54, Jim <n...(a)0.0.0.0> wrote: > On 01/07/2010 12:41, Steve wrote: > > > On 1 July, 12:33, "TOG(a)Toil"<totallydeadmail...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > >> It's a PITA when people get frames power-coated, mind, because the > >> coating invariably obscures the numbers stamped into the headstock. > >> And without a visible frame number, you can't get an MoT. > > That can't be right as pre '69 Harleys had no frame number. > > Ah - just checked > >http://www.motuk.co.uk/mcmanual_630.htm > > "A Vehicle Identification Number is required on all machines first > > used on or after 1 August 1999, except those which are amateur built" > > So they would be granted an exception on two counts. Heh :-)) I always wondered how HDs coped, acftually, because yeah, I remember now they didn't come with frame numbers. On more than one occasion, I saw a Honda CD175 with no frame number. Apparently a batch slipped through the net.
From: Scraggy on 1 Jul 2010 09:14 On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 04:33:40 -0700 (PDT), "TOG(a)Toil" <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >It's a PITA when people get frames power-coated, mind... Blinding, they 'lectrons is and no mistake. -- I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Groucho Marx
From: CT on 1 Jul 2010 09:51
TOG(a)Toil wrote: > It's a PITA when people get frames power-coated, mind, because the > coating invariably obscures the numbers stamped into the headstock. As I've just found out. > And without a visible frame number, you can't get an MoT. The DVLA man is handy with a torch[1] and a mirror-onna-stick though. [1] He had to wander off to get new batteries. -- Chris |