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Seabeowner:
Anyone else seen this?
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-4888010/Cars-older-40-years-exempt-MOT-test-2018.html

Nurse Julie:
About time too but.....i personally think its a bad move from the safety aspect. The DfT are assuming we are all experts in maintaining our old bikes to a high standard of safety. Well, I could never admit to having enough knowledge to ensure my bikes are 100% safe, I want an expert to look at it for me and advise me. I have seen bikes recently out on the road and I dare to say on this forum also that are death traps and should fail an MOT. Just my thoughts on it.

Seabeowner:
Agreed. There is a danger that the inexperienced will see this a cheap way to get on the road with no checks. Unchecked bikes that have been off the road for a few years could be lethal.

Trigger:
Stopped to help a guy on a pre 1960 BSA who had broke down on a Classic bike run in the Wolds. Surprised that none of his fellow bikers stopped to help him out but, his tank liner had failed and blocked the carb, while I was giving him some support I noticed that both his tyres had more cracks in them than the Daytona salt lake. He said that it did not matter because the bike was exempt from MOT's and he never goes over 40MPH  :o :o

matthewmosse:
I've had a frame snap from internal corrosion weeks after passing mot and brake shoes cast off their lining 300 yards from the mot test centre. Neither fault was visable and I'd have noticed the lining starting to come loose if it had been giving much warning when I did a new rear tyre a few weeks previously. I'm not going to loose any sleep over mot exemptions, it will make my life slightly more convenient thanks to only one mot station in a good location where I can skive off down the shop and they do really bad service so bike Mot for me does mean a 60 mile round trip to a village with no shops and standing around waiting. Small saving there. Frankly the closer bike shop who do mots I'd want the bike mot'd again after those monkeys had been near it, they fitted my cb550 with a tyre but without a rim tape last time I used them, lasted all of 14 miles, blew out at 60mph giving me quite a scare. I reason my time is better spent checking it myself, and some slow speed shake down runs rather than the first trip out on a rebuilt bike being direct to mot place on some pretty punishing roads. Bit of a plus really.

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