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pauliexjr:

--- Quote from: z1100r on March 03, 2011, 12:30:50 PM ---Apparently you can take a frame, engine and wheels for an MOT if you like. Some say you need a brake light but I dont think thats true. You dont need any lights of any description. Anything fitted has to work as already stated but its very loose after that. You would only get a daytime MOT of course.

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Not actually true, you must have a working method of warning i.e. horn, and if registered after 1/4/86 you must have working indicators. As said, everything else must work if fitted. More info on chronolgy here http://thames-valley-region.mag-uk.org/Pages/legisla_chronology_of_motorcycles.htm

z1100r:


--- Quote ---Not actually true
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Bloody close though...you only need a rubber-bulb horn on the bars if its pre-86, which i assume all bikes on here are.

SteveD CB500K0:
 ;D

I actually did that way back in the 70's when my 500/4 failed due to a faulty horn. As I was in a bicycle shop (many MOT stations were in those days), he sold me a cheap rubber bulb horn, watched while I fitted it and promptly passed me.

I then went home and took it off (and fixed the horn eventually)


One of my bikes failed recently as the Cibie Z-beam headlamp was actually French and dipped the wrong way. No MOT tester had noticed this since it was fitted 20 years ago!
He gave me some black tape and checked the beam pattern as I masked off various bits of the lens. He then passed me and suggested that I remove that ugly black tape once I was out of his premises...

 ;D

florence:
About twenty something years ago I built a cafe race cx500.  I turned the handle bars upside down, replaced the saddle with a strip of metal with carpet glued to it, put on a different headlamp, removed everything I could do without and, being a country boy, made my own exhaust system out of tractor parts.  I had chopped down the front mudguard to about seven inches because I wanted to keep the fork brace.  When I took it for the MOT everything was fine apart from the mudguard which I was told must cover one third of the circumference of the wheel.  I took it home and attached some plastic onto each side using self-tapping screws.  It was good enough for the MOT man and as soon as I returned from the MOT station I took the 'extensions' off again.

Mozza:
The front mudgaurd can stay I suppose but the plan was to remove the rear mudgaurd and mount the brake light and licence plate directly under the seat to shorten the back of the bike up but if I need to cover more of the rear wheel that idea might be out of the question. I have been using a lot of the USA modern cafe racers as inspiration but obviously they have more lenient laws over there.

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