http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7200066.stm

 

how they get away with it? surely they have to park and stuff like cars so chances of being checked by a warden are as high.. ANPR must read bikes too

 

66% of my bikes are untaxed

(One is sorned and the other is in bits)

 

Tax on bikes is FA.

There should be no excuses.

 

I suspect it's more to do with people failing to do the SORN than actively running around without a tax disc, which then gets extrapolated into the statistics.

Things might be better if they put less effort into producing dubious statistics and more effort into catching offenders.

 

i would think a huge proportion of scooters are untaxed and uninsured in london. police never stop you, park off road and sign a sorn.

i know of 1 guy who just went out and bought a scooter from loot and rode it about with no cbt, no insurance, tax or anything else for 3 or 4 years until it broke. i am sure he is not the only one

 

I think the figures are wrong.

I think you'll find 40% are sorned for 6 months of the year, and therefore they are not taxed during the sorn period, I think some tw@t has his sums wrong, and needs to re-address them.

 

I'd disagree wih that, as most are driven to places of work and parked in motorcycle ranks, they will be regularly inspected by traffic wardens. I suspect the problem is greater in more rural areas where people are parked on private land at their places of work and there aren't traffic wardens around.

 

"Large parts of the biking community are cocking a snook at the law".
Edward Leigh
Public Accounts Committee


If any of you biker lot ever come up here cocking your snook, you'll be extradited.

 

Plenty are SORNed for 6 mths of the year, but the proportion of bikes that are never used on-road is probably much higher than cars.

Track bikes and off-road bikes can be transported on trailers or vans to where they are used much easier than a car so don't need to be taxed to get there int he first place.

I also suspect there are proportionately more bikes than cars written off that never get reported to the DVLA as such.

Probably not a very meaningful statistic at the end of the day, but let's not stop that getting in the way of blaming road users for something.