V4 Registering A Motorcycle After Purchase From A Dealer

Does anyone know the process involved in purchasing a new motorcycle from a dealer and insuring it on the VIN number alone. I am probably going to delay taking delivery of my V4 until the winter and intend on stripping it down, to paint the frame and suspension components plus fit a host of other after market parts and carry out several mods, that way I don't eat into valuable riding time by performing this work over the colder months and into the early part of next year. Consequently I would prefer to register in it March 2019 when it is eventually ready for the road, as opposed to putting it straight onto a 18 plate when I collect it from the dealer. I will also get one more riding season's use out of the 1299S before I trade it in. They are saying they will have to register the V4 at the time of purchase. Is this strictly correct as I have known others who have purchased bikes and insured them on the VIN number until they decided to register them.

 

Ah OK. I thought it was possible to register them as a new vehicle, within a reasonable time frame from purchase. In my case six months.

 

Did you manage to register it as new? The aim here was to put it onto a 19 plate in March 2019 but purchase it around Sept/Oct time 2018

 

I was not planning on running it before stripping it. I was planning on running the 1299 this summer, trading that in later this year, then purchasing the V4. The idea was to mitigate any depreciation owing to the time spent with the new bike disassembled over the Winter and register it when the work was done. The alternative would be to buy the bike and register it in March 2019, strip it then ride it but I was merely trying to avoid doing the work over the riding season. The extent to which I commonly strip bikes down means the bike will be off the road for at least two months maybe three.

 

I'm more patient than most

 

Thanks for all your replies. I think I will probably go down the same route as the 1299S. Namely purchase the V4 towards the end of the year and register it on an 18 plate, then strip it down over the Winter 2018/Early 2019 to be ready for March next year. I'll just have to swallow the few months depreciation. I don't want to be undertaking this scale of project when I could be riding it, hence the timings. I will as a consequence have a plethora of V2 Panigale very trick goodies for sale, which be available through my website.

 

You're erroneously inferring there is some sort of deception going on. The VIN will always show the actual date of manufacture regardless of when it is registered. Many bikes purchased in March of any given year may very well have been produced the year before, despite the fact they will be registered in the current year. It's not uncommon, for example, for a car to be sold that came off a production line several months before it hits a dealership and is eventually sold, that might very well tip it over into the next registration sequence (March or August). I always trade my bikes in to my local dealer who knows exactly the history of the bike in question. The idea of mitigating depreciation is more the appeal of buying a bike on a newer plate (despite it being produced the year before) than one registered the year before and produced at a similar time. The appearance of a newer vehicle (albeit from a registration alone) is a surprisingly attractive characteristic to some potential buyers, assuming a like for like comparison with a similar model in similar condition with similar mileage and of similar actual age. That in some instances can warrant increasing the asking price. Most of my bikes are sold with less than 5000 miles on them so in the grand scheme of things it makes little odds. I simply originally posed the question of registration, to defer putting the bike on a 18 plate when I knew I would not be riding it until around the time the 19 plates came into force. I dont want to wait until March 2019 to purchase the bike as it will then be off the road until at least June which is when I could otherwise be riding it. Without exception, I always carry out projects such as these over the Winter as it has no impact on my usage of the bike.

 

To be honest I have never let it bother me before and I have stripped and rebuilt the last three bikes to that extent with no problems whatsoever. I am exceptionally meticulous and arguably the bike ends up being rebuilt to the same if not a better satndard than when it came off the production line

 

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