I don't know why you coundn't enlist the help of Epson. He's a very flexible and creative fellow. Choose a good paper.
Scanning a correct docuemt and then making changes where needed makes sense to me.
I'd only plan to use it, re-making yourself and bike, when it's really necessary.

Mr. Epson, eh?? Funny! I really need to remember this....
Lorraine

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That will all change of course.

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I'll try re-emailing the DVLA for their requirements to register a bike. On their site they ask for UK drivers license, proof of insurance and about a dozen pieces of proof of address.

For other peoples interest, if we go the borrowed bike route, the 'Green Card' must have the owners name and address and up to 2 riders can be named on the schedule. (just this minute got a reply from knophtours).

I'd certainly rather be legal, but having Mr Epsom along sounds good.

This HUBB thing is really good!

I got my bike from was a cop he was able to grease the skids?

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I am no expert in this area but I don't think the rules have changed a great deal, if at all, in the past few years. They are to try to stop money laundering (so cash deals are limited to a max of £3000 I believe) and to ensure that vehicles are correctly registered and not being used for crime, including terrorism - there are literally millions of illegal vehices on the road in Britain if you believe the press.

Anyway, if you can show an address where the vehicle is "normally kept" (as Mollydog suggests) - evidence for that address can include things like bills for that address (gas, electricity bills etc) - and you can show that you are entitled to ride (here I am not sure at all, but I would have thought that an international driving licence would be OK - this is definitely one to check with the DVLA) + that you have insurance cover for the UK then I reckon it is "on".

Mollydog,
I don't think that any strings were pulled for you - it is a beauracratic delight, this national registration system of ours and it just needs to have all of the paperwork in order and a bit of patience on the part of the buyer. Who you buy from makes no difference; both parties have to do some paperwork but it is the seller who has to tell the DVLA what is happening (or they continue to be responsible for whatever that vehicle does, including any fines involved) - all part of trying to ensure that vehicles are accounted for.

The national computers are very linked up (increasingly so) and the records of what is insured are checked against what is registered to be on the road. Automatic number plate recognition cameras are now in place which tell the cop car via a downlink as soon as the camera identifies a vehicle which does not have the right to be on the road - the cameras are both static (such as the London congestion charging type) or mobile, fixed at the front of a mobile policecar or in vans parked on the side of the road - a few years late, but very much on the lines of 1984!

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