Hi from a new member

I'm going to buy a bike shortly and I've got my eye on a couple at a localish shop but they're both road registered. As I'm not going to ride on the road at all I want to avoid any unnecessary hassle, so what is involved in buying a bike with a V5? Do I just fill out the V5 as a SORN and nothing else?

Cheers

Hi, I bought a road registered bike and just filled in a SORN. You'll get a confirmation back and thats it!

Hi, I bought a road registered bike and just filled in a SORN. You'll get a confirmation back and thats it!

Don't you have to SORN it each year and Swansea don't remind you?

you will have to sorn it every year yes but you will get a reminder and you can do it in minutes online.

Great stuff, many thanks!

I don't think they do remind you when it is time to renew a SORN, presumably as they don't get any income from a SORN. I know a couple of guys who forgot for a short time and were fined, I think,

and from 2012 you'll have to by law insure any bike that is not sorn

I don't think they do remind you when it is time to renew a SORN, presumably as they don't get any income from a SORN. I know a couple of guys who forgot for a short time and were fined, I think, £60.

After that I religiously put my SORN renewal dates in every new years' diary.

They dont remind you the thieving scumbags!

I filled mine in, posted it about a month ahead of time (about 2 years ago).

3 months later I get a snotty letter and a £80 fine.

I then chased around the b*stard DVLA for hours and hours trying to find someone to talk to and explain that I had filled in the SORN. Everytime you think you can speak to the next person but you cant! It's all a MASSIVE swiss and I'm 100% that the thieving b*stards use it as a cash cow especially if you dont post your SORN recorded delivery.

Since then I have not had a SORN reminder or a fine though.

Best bet, post using recorded delivery and do as Bultaco does and put in a reminder every year to stop the robbing @rses from fleecing you.

Edited April 14, 201115 yr by beatabeta

I get reminders each year its the same document as a tax reminder.

I get reminders each year its the same document as a tax reminder.

Me to, and SORN it online.

Yep on line and a conformation letter arrives a week later.

Reminders go missing in the post. Do it at the post office and you get a receipt proving you have done the necessary.