Scrapping a motor cycle in the UK.

Following on from the links on a thread "buyer beware" regarding the new V5C, it states,

Scrapping your vehicle

You must take your vehicle to an authorised treatment facility who will make sure that it’s dismantled in an environmentally friendly way.

The vehicles you can take are:
•cars
•light vans
•three-wheeled motor vehicles - excluding motor tricycles

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As motor cycles are not listed above, am I correct in assuming that they are not included in the legislation?
I will be in a position later in the year where I may rebuild a bike that is presently in its component parts, or will be selling the good parts off piece by piece if it is not economically viable to rebuild, and therefore "scrapping it." It is presently registered to me on the V5C.

Reggie said:

As motor cycles are not listed above, am I correct in assuming that they are not included in the legislation?

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But the document also goes on to say:

If you have a vehicle other than those already mentioned, you still need to take your vehicle to an ATF to ensure it’s destroyed to environmental standards. They’ll arrange for the vehicle record at DVLA, to be updated with a Notification of Destruction.

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Typical government muddled thinking, and I must admit I don't know what the exact present position is regarding the scrapping of vehicles other than those listed.

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/bu ... 31887.aspx

A phone call or e-mail to the DVLA or your local authorised treatment facility (ATF) may get you an answer?

Thanks for the info Les and for drawing this to my attention.
I suppose if I think about it, that if the frame gets sold, that will in effect keep the bikes identity, and that as you say the logical thing to do is to contact the local DVLA for a definitive answer.

It would seem to me that there is more and more legislation appearing that will lead to eventual entrapment of genuinely well intentioned and innocent members of the public. I'm of average intelligence (I kid myself) and running motor vehicles is getting more complicated every year. Where will it end.......answer, probably not in my lifetime. Does this irritate me, YES.

Reggie said:

It would seem to me that there is more and more legislation appearing that will lead to eventual entrapment of genuinely well intentioned and innocent members of the public. I'm of average intelligence (I kid myself) and running motor vehicles is getting more complicated every year. Where will it end.......answer, probably not in my lifetime. Does this irritate me, YES.

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Well...at least they're dropping the annual re-SORN
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/ ... -scrapped/

“Reducing the number of rules and regulations in our life is absolutely vital to removing barriers to economic growth and increasing individual freedoms.

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- Says the government - as the rumblings of more new legislation is being heard from the EU! :roll: