Out For Mot

[alanfavell]

Booked it in another county 😁

[Catteeclan]

Good move 

[alanfavell]

Pass 0 advisories

[Studley Ramrod]

:good: How many miles did you do last year Al ?

[alanfavell]

Not many - 43235-37134 = 6101 in 18 months - oh dear must try harder. Took 90 mins to travel 5 miles from MOT to Sunderland ind. unit --- must have taken a wrong turn somewhere

[James]

Not many - 43235-37134 = 6101 in 18 months - oh dear must try harder. Took 90 mins to travel 5 miles from MOT to Sunderland ind. unit --- must have taken a wrong turn somewhere

That’s not bad considering. I did a paltry 950 miles on my TDM between MOTs last year and just over 1000 on the Buell  orry:. 

[fixitsan]

Booked it in another county

 

I once booked an XJ600 located in Newcastle, for on MOT at my local garage here in Scotland, and rode straight from one to the other !

[Snowbird]

I once booked a peugeot 309 in for local mot in cambs. but I'd just bought off ebay in kinston upon thames, I put a days insurance on it.

By the end of the day the engine sat on the floor beside it and It never went for the mot, I onlt wanted the engine but needed the booking to drive it back legally.(the garage knew this so they could double book)

[Sphere]

I once booked a peugeot 309 in for local mot in cambs. but I'd just bought off ebay in kinston upon thames, I put a days insurance on it.

By the end of the day the engine sat on the floor beside it and It never went for the mot, I onlt wanted the engine but needed the booking to drive it back legally.(the garage knew this so they could double book)

 

Cheeky, but have to admire your style  :clapping:

[Studley Ramrod]

Not many - 43235-37134 = 6101 in 18 months - oh dear must try harder. Took 90 mins to travel 5 miles from MOT to Sunderland ind. unit --- must have taken a wrong turn somewhere

Not bad going, all things considered. Think I was at around 600 miles for 12 months !

[alanfavell]

Gixer lad at MOT station did 36 miles in the same period..........

 

 

Need a beer and some nights under canvas soon.........

[Studley Ramrod]

When you hoping to do that Al ?

[alanfavell]

April, if the Govt. lets us out of prison. :unsure2:

[Studley Ramrod]

Might be May before they let us free.  17th according to my bro.

[alanfavell]

Will be away ASAPermitted. Ian too, is straining at the leash.

[Splodge]

What's an MOT? Is it a Brexit thing? We don't seem to have that here in evil-EU infested Belgium.    Sorry lads, couldn't resist it.  :rotflmmfao:

[Catteeclan]

It's an annual pilgrimage to ride our bikes and cars to a garage of our choice to check our vehicles are safe to go on the roads so carefully cared for by the Ministry Of Transport. For a small fee of course.

[fixitsan]

What's an MOT? Is it a Brexit thing? We don't seem to have that here in evil-EU infested Belgium.    Sorry lads, couldn't resist it.  :rotflmmfao:

 

MOT = Ministry of Transport, UK equivalent to GOCA. The test is the annual roadworthiness check, equivalent to '<i>Contrôle technique/Autokeuring'</i>

 

<i>Our rules insist an annual inspection be carried out, but yours allow it to be extended to 2 years under certain circumstances.</i>

 

<i>Our vehicles are designed to drive on the proper side of the road, yours are all wrong </i>

[Splodge]

Whoops!  I must have forgotten to hit the irony/sarcasm button when I posted, but I'm familiar with the MOT routine, what with being an ex-brit & long time bike rider & all that.  . I wasn't expecting the Spanish inquisition  . By the way, FYI, there is momentarily, nor has there ever been any mandatory or even voluntary technical control for motorcycles first registered here in Belgium . 

Something something sovereignty, or perhaps they simply 'forgot' to send me an invitation every year as punishment for being a dang furriner the last 30 years or so!   Anyhoo, ride safe lads, & good luck with the bre... you know what. ( I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it! )  :badgerrock:

[fixitsan]

Whoops!  I must have forgotten to hit the irony/sarcasm button when I posted, but I'm familiar with the MOT routine, what with being an ex-brit & long time bike rider & all that.  . I wasn't expecting the Spanish inquisition  . By the way, FYI, there is momentarily, nor has there ever been any mandatory or even voluntary technical control for motorcycles first registered here in Belgium . 

Something something sovereignty, or perhaps they simply 'forgot' to send me an invitation every year as punishment for being a dang furriner the last 30 years or so!   Anyhoo, ride safe lads, & good luck with the bre... you know what. ( I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it! )  :badgerrock:

 

As the failed Belgium politician-cum-Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt  said recently, the future is a future of empires. !

 

Because as we all know, the way to break down empires, is to make some more empires..... !

 

Or as that Welsh philosopher,  Shirley Bassey famously once said "It's all just a little bit of history repeating" !