Legality of of pushing broken bike?
Discussion
I need to move a motorcycle out of what is now my exes garden and to my garage so I can get it sorted for spring.
It currently won't start (something electrical, probably battery but due to being stuck where it is I'm unable to properly look at it) and is SORN with no MOT/TAX.
The distance is 3.7 miles door to door, but does go past a big police/council depot on a main road.
How much trouble would I be likely to get into if I got caught pushing it there? I'm thinking very early morning so there's fewer pedestrians etc about. I don't have a trailer or van and money is a bit tight for renting one, It's basically round the corner but would not want to get into any expensive bother over it....
It currently won't start (something electrical, probably battery but due to being stuck where it is I'm unable to properly look at it) and is SORN with no MOT/TAX.
The distance is 3.7 miles door to door, but does go past a big police/council depot on a main road.
How much trouble would I be likely to get into if I got caught pushing it there? I'm thinking very early morning so there's fewer pedestrians etc about. I don't have a trailer or van and money is a bit tight for renting one, It's basically round the corner but would not want to get into any expensive bother over it....
Edited by Timfy on Thursday 29th December 06:03
Cheers it does look roadworthy for a 30 year old bike that lives in a garden (if it started there's no reason it shouldn't be as I've spent £££ and a couple of hundred hours making it so over the past eight months, it's basically finished ready for MOT, then just suddenly started refusing to work on the day I'd planned to call and book one.)
If I can get it to my garage I hope it'll be ridable and safe for MOT after a weekend of fettling but can't do that where it is.
It wouldn't be stupidly early as there's plenty of trouble with bike thieves in the area so wouldn't want to stand out by looking like a blatant wrong'un.
I'll see if I can get the trailer sorted this week otherwise I might have to chance it one Sunday morning.
Good shout on the man with a van used a local guy to move a bed recently and was cheap as chips.
If I can get it to my garage I hope it'll be ridable and safe for MOT after a weekend of fettling but can't do that where it is.
It wouldn't be stupidly early as there's plenty of trouble with bike thieves in the area so wouldn't want to stand out by looking like a blatant wrong'un.
I'll see if I can get the trailer sorted this week otherwise I might have to chance it one Sunday morning.
Good shout on the man with a van used a local guy to move a bed recently and was cheap as chips.
Edited by Timfy on Thursday 29th December 07:22
Yes the bike is the intruder, dry weight is about 186 so 200 is probably a good guess.
I'd give it a shot at pushing it, but thinking there has to be a better way. Hopefully it'll be getting moved by trailer but in the worst case I'd give it a go. Pushed it just over 1.5 miles home when it let me down once before and that was no sweat. An hour might be ambitious as the same journey was 45 minutes at a fairly relaxed walk.
It's the risk of getting shafted for no tax/mot/insurance that's of most concern. Especially as it'll be pushed straight past the police depot at Almondsbury I'm just unsure of how strict the police would be likely to be about it. Years ago it wouldn't even have been a question because I'd have already done it by now.
I'd give it a shot at pushing it, but thinking there has to be a better way. Hopefully it'll be getting moved by trailer but in the worst case I'd give it a go. Pushed it just over 1.5 miles home when it let me down once before and that was no sweat. An hour might be ambitious as the same journey was 45 minutes at a fairly relaxed walk.
It's the risk of getting shafted for no tax/mot/insurance that's of most concern. Especially as it'll be pushed straight past the police depot at Almondsbury I'm just unsure of how strict the police would be likely to be about it. Years ago it wouldn't even have been a question because I'd have already done it by now.
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