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Lord Snooty

Lord Snooty

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My little brother has three projects on the go at the moment, all of them for off-road use only. He scours ebay for frames and engines and other cycle bits and starts marrying them together.

At the moment he has a Royal Enfield 250cc Crusader engine in a Montesa frame, a mid 80s Honda XR250cc which is nearly complete and the frame and parts are at the powder coaters at the moment and this latest one. It is a Triumph or BSA frame, possible a TR5 or maybe a BSA B50 frame from when the two companies were amalgamated, a Suzuki DRZ400 engine, Honda front forks, Yamaha triple clamps, Bultaco rear wheel. He has mounted the engine using Suzuki GSXR 750 engine mounts with the rubber isolation, the tank is a Cheney Victor and I think the seat is a new BSA item. The air filter housing is from a 1960s car and is very reminiscent of the air filters used on Husqvarna motox bikes in the 60s.

He does all of the welding and fabricating himself but he does lack a lathe which he would love to have.
 

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Nice 'n' Fat said:
Respect to your Bruv LS :bow

That bike definitely has a certain 'look' to it :thumb2
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Cheers, I think it will be a cracker when it is finished. He is creating them in a building at the farm where he works, he has worked there for years and is responsible for maintaining all of the farm vehicles and machinery. He has access to welding kit, a bandsaw, grinder, cutters and other tools but as I stated he does not have a lathe. He fabricates all of the bracketry himself but when he needs things like spacers turned and created he has a mate who works at GKN who does them for him.
 
Talk about a garage full of bitzas! Your bro’ wins first prize. I had an Enfield Crusader back in the day, keeping it oiltight was a challenge, I recall lapping the head to the barrel and bluing it, it was always the pushrod channel that leaked.
 
Greenman14 said:
Talk about a garage full of bitzas! Your bro’ wins first prize. I had an Enfield Crusader back in the day, keeping it oiltight was a challenge, I recall lapping the head to the barrel and bluing it, it was always the pushrod channel that leaked.
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LOL! He spends hours scouring ebay for engines, frames and all sorts of stuff, he says it is his disease! :blast He got the Crusader engine off some old boy who had had it in a garage as a box of bits for donkeys.
 
That DRZ engine looks great in the BSA frame. It could end up being a really rideable classic. Please post more pics as he makes further progress.
 
More progress has been made, the rear brake hub arrived from the USA, fitted and he made a brake arm incorporated into the chain guide and the Honda XR returned from the powder coaters in a brilliant electric blue colour.

My brother has decided that when it is complete he wants to get it registered for the road on an age related plate and a daytime only MOT. The bike was a a USA export and the only document he has is the HMRC NOVA paperwork from when it was imported back to the UK in 2017. The VIN is TR5MXGH75325 which I have interpreted as a TR5 model (Adventurer in the UK), MX - moto cross, production date of June 1973.

Does anybody know the process he will have to follow to get the bike registered with an age related plate and have a V5 issued? Neither of us have done this before so help would be much appreciated. Also, from what I have managed to ascertain the bike only needs a registration plate, a rear reflector and a horn for a daytime only MOT certificate, is this correct?
 

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To register it, the subject has been covered many times on here previously, so do a search.
It's relatively simple for a bike as most of the documentation doesn't apply, just leave the irrelevant tick boxes empty.
Look on the DVLA site for registering an imported vehicle and get a vehicle import pack off them.
It will need a dating certificate though, only acceptable via an approved club or organisation from their list.
I've used the VJMC for my imports, being a member, but non members can use their facility at a higher cost.
Again, look on their website for the info and forms.

Given the age that you state, it should be eligible to be registered as a Historic Vehicle and be MOT and tax exempt, again via another set of forms, done at a Post Office (once again already on here, so have a look, and I've done two myself...it's quite easy).
However, for first registration the DVLA wanted an MOT on my 1972 GT750, even though they then made it Historic Vehicle exempt when they registered it.
One thing though, is that to be eligible, a vehicle must not be "significantly modified", so once more check the DVLA guidelines for what they define as such.
This bike quite possibly won't be acceptable as such.
 
Tarka said:
To register it, the subject has been covered many times on here previously, so do a search.
It's relatively simple for a bike as most of the documentation doesn't apply, just leave the irrelevant tick boxes empty.
Look on the DVLA site for registering an imported vehicle and get a vehicle import pack off them.
It will need a dating certificate though, only acceptable via an approved club or organisation from their list.
I've used the VJMC for my imports, being a member, but non members can use their facility at a higher cost.
Again, look on their website for the info and forms.
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I used the services of chap who specialises in registering bikes for bods

Having previously done it myself a few years ago before NOVA and DVLA changes (shutting local offices) I found it far easier to let him certify it all (he’s on DVLA approved panel)

Quick service and not expensive at less than £100
 
Tarka said:
To register it, the subject has been covered many times on here previously, so do a search.
It's relatively simple for a bike as most of the documentation doesn't apply, just leave the irrelevant tick boxes empty.
Look on the DVLA site for registering an imported vehicle and get a vehicle import pack off them.
It will need a dating certificate though, only acceptable via an approved club or organisation from their list.
I've used the VJMC for my imports, being a member, but non members can use their facility at a higher cost.
Again, look on their website for the info and forms.

Given the age that you state, it should be eligible to be registered as a Historic Vehicle and be MOT and tax exempt, again via another set of forms, done at a Post Office (once again already on here, so have a look, and I've done two myself...it's quite easy).
However, for first registration the DVLA wanted an MOT on my 1972 GT750, even though they then made it Historic Vehicle exempt when they registered it.
One thing though, is that to be eligible, a vehicle must not be "significantly modified", so once more check the DVLA guidelines for what they define as such.
This bike quite possibly won't be acceptable as such.
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Thanks Steve, I tried doing a search but as always with these things your results depend on the words you use and the order and to be honest I was getting pages and pages of irrleevant stuff so I asked the question.
 
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