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dxmedia:

--- Quote from: Llanigraham on October 07, 2010, 11:09:32 ---Because a motorbike is the same as any motorised vehicle, and to be on the highway has to have tax, MOT and insurance.

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Exactly. The analogy of pushing a car up the path with no tax insurance or mot is pretty good.

carbore:
I have a odd feeling that the definition of "dirt bike" may be important. If the bike has been registered for road use, then possibly it is illigal if its not SORNd and not correctly registered (as in dropped out the system). This is the sort of thing coppers confiscate as the local chavs blast around on them causing agro.

however if the bike has never been road registered (such as bona-fide trials) then there may be less of an issue as its not strictly a vehicle. For example Im thinking of one of those "toy" mini motorbikes, or say you were unloading a trials bike off a trailer into your garages accros the road.

A bit random I know, but whats a motorbike is not as daft a question as it sounds.

Llanigraham:
Those "toy" motorbikes are certainly classed as motor vehicles, which is why so many have been confisacted and crushed by many Police forces throughout the country, when they are caught being used on the road. It doesn't matter whether it has been registered or not, the legal definition is a motorised vehicle. Anything that comes into that definition requires all the legal bits to be on the road. Even the motorised but hand proppelled road sweepers used in the pedestrian areas of big cities have number plates.

Who can remember the fuss about those skateboards with little chainsaw motors and a hand throttle? They were banned as a "motorised vehicle".
Ditto the fuss about Lemsip Optic riding a Segway through London. That too is classed as a motorised vehicle.

carbore:
Hello, I agree with you Llanigraham, but the issue is with the defitiniton of "Motor vehicle" and "Being used".

Obviously some chav zooming on a mini bike is "using it", but if someone is pushing it is that "using it" and especially if its not registered as a "motor vehicle" even if it is motorised and capable of carrying a person (e.g. if someone made a nitro RC car you could sit on, is that a motor vehicle if its not being "used" as such)

In fact I have just thought, I have a Ride on mower, I know f I drove it under its own power on the road it would need the to be registered and comply etc (like council mowers), but if I pushed it would it up the road to my neighbours need to comply?

stretchy:

thankfully it is a bonafide dirt bike never had speedo or lights etc so its never been on road. my pal lives a few streets away and works on my bike sometimes but its quicker to push it there than load it in trailer etc just wonderd what the legilitys was before i am stoped

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