they were saying :
The telephone. Possibly a real live insurance broker, if they still exist.
The "MOT" is the roadworthiness test. DVLA are the evil welsh slugs who issue driving licences and the like. www.dvla.gov.uk
You *will* need to have a demonstrably bike licence from whichever part of the world you hail from. Does your part of the world have the same percentage of homicidal loonies whose sole purpose in life is to kill bikers as we do?
In short - There's three rough formats.
Current - XX 99 love - 99 indicates the age. Sept 01-date. Recentish - X 999 love - the first letter indicates the age. - Aug 84 to Aug 01. Getting scarce now - love 999 X - the last letter indicates the age. Jan 63 to Jul 84. Ancient - anything else - no easy way to tell the age. Pre 63.
You can swap plates to make your willy look bigger, but not to make your car look newer. This is expensive, especially if you don't want to look like a cheap privateshead.
"Registration" is free.
Not for anything older than the last year or three. £110 for sub-1500cc, £160 for over. For 12 months.
Five hundred quid, directed carefully, will get you something with a year or three left in it easily.
Equally, it can get you into a world of pain. But so can three grand.
Buy wisely.
