Group Purchase for some REAL insanity?

[Falco Frank]

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[I like Skol]

I would, but I don't have time to ride it back from Inverness and for that reason I'm out!

 

[Drago]

Shame it can't be ridden on the road.

 

[lazybloke]

Four doors and an ejector-seat exit, very practical.

Shame it can't be ridden on the road.

What is the objection?

 

[Drago]

Its type approved road registered motor vehicle. Removing the engine and fitting pedals doesn't alter its lawful status as a motor vehicle. If its been scrapped and deregistered, then allowing it back in public is another offence. Have an accident in that and a seriously large can of worms gets opened.

Its no different from taking the engine out of a moped and pedalling everywhere, at least as far as the document requirements go.

So if you can get it through an MOT, tax it, have a licence and insurance, then you can take it out in public...hence all the weasel wording from the seller pretending he doesn't know its legal status.

 

[lazybloke]

Rules are meant to be broken!

 

[Drago]

I guess if you have four really fit riders then the authorities will never catch you!

 

[Milkfloat]

 

[I like Skol]

Its type approved road registered motor vehicle. Removing the engine and fitting pedals doesn't alter its lawful status as a motor vehicle. If its been scrapped and deregistered, then allowing it back in public is another offence. Have an accident in that and a seriously large can of worms gets opened.

Its no different from taking the engine out of a moped and pedalling everywhere, at least as far as the document requirements go.

So if you can get it through an MOT, tax it, have a licence and insurance, then you can take it out in public...hence all the weasel wording from the seller pretending he doesn't know its legal status.

I suspect it would be exceedingly difficult to get a successful prosecution on those grounds Drago. The floor pan and all the componentry that make it an identifiable motor vehicle are gone. What you have there is a home made quad cycle with some body panels hung on it and any solicitor worth his salt would get that charge laughed out of court within 5 seconds!
On the other hand, I quite agree that other than a school engineering project or publicity stunt, using it in the real world would be dangerous and inadvisable. I am sure there will be relevant laws to force it off the road but not the ones related to motor vehicle use and registration.

 

[Drago]

I think it would be difficult to argue to the court that the vehicle is not substantially intact. Its like these folk that chop cars in half to make trailers - I've put one of those through court successfully.

It looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, it almost certainly is a small aquatic bird of the genus anatidae.

 

[classic33]

Its type approved road registered motor vehicle. Removing the engine and fitting pedals doesn't alter its lawful status as a motor vehicle. If its been scrapped and deregistered, then allowing it back in public is another offence. Have an accident in that and a seriously large can of worms gets opened.

Its no different from taking the engine out of a moped and pedalling everywhere, at least as far as the document requirements go.

So if you can get it through an MOT, tax it, have a licence and insurance, then you can take it out in public...hence all the weasel wording from the seller pretending he doesn't know its legal status.

Have you ever tried taking a quadricycle for an SVA(As it was known)? Tried twice, the second time under the instructions of the local DVLA office in Leeds.

They couldn't work out Why?

 

[classic33]

I think it would be difficult to argue to the court that the vehicle is not substantially intact. Its like these folk that chop cars in half to make trailers - I've put one of those through court successfully.

It looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, it almost certainly is a small aquatic bird of the genus anatidae.

Cygnet then!

 

[voyager]

This was built down here near Shoreham, the clip shows it around Shoreham beach. To all intense and purposes it's a 4 seater quadracycle.
It's not the first of it's kind down here , somebody converted a Trabant to pedal power in Brighton and rode it as a publicity stunt a few years ago.
Without a chassis / vin number and without an engine it's just a covered quad velo.

Later's Emma

 

[voyager]

Cygnet then!

dodo bird maybe

 

[classic33]

dodo bird maybe

Not an aquatic bird.