taxation class

[Ray]

Hi Guys

           a little help needed here, last night, a good friend of mine gave me his Motorbike, he has owned the bike since new, its a 1984 Suzuki GS125, and it hasn't been on the road for just over 30 years, but 2 years ago, it had its first MOT, that I put on it, as I store it, but still it never got taxed and insured, now in that 30 years he has moved several times and long lost the log book, so I have to apply for a V5C, that's easy in itself, in the fact its just fill out a form V62, but the question I cant find an answer to is, what is the taxation class of the bike, if it was a car, the info is there, but a bike its a tad confusing

not having had a bike myself for around the same sort of time, I'm not up with the tax classes on a bike

does anyone have a similar sized machine that they could advise me of the taxation class please

 

[colr6]

Had a word with mate who's into scooters, importing and registering. He lists his 125s as motorcycles. Had a look on my logbooks but there seems to be no common thing a, some are listed as bicycles even at 250cc some are m/ cycles and some historic vehicles. And that's the DVLA sorting that out so obviously they class them willy nilly. It used be a bicycle was a moped which was basically a bicycle that was power assisted any thing over that was classed as a m/ cycle. Will see what else I can find out for you Ray.

[Ray]

thanks Colin, your a star

[colr6]

Just had a look on GOV. Web site and it states a motorcycle is a motorbicycle or motorcycle under 450kg unladen. So anything over that must be fooking heavy motorcycle .....LOL.....NOT to be placed on ones foot!!

From that I would say your taxation class is motorcycle.

[Ray]

cheers Colin

I will get form in the post

[Vista]

Motorcycle (with or without sidecar) (TC17)

Engine size (cc)	Single 12 month payment	Single 12 month payment by Direct Debit	Total of 12 monthly instalments by Direct Debit	Single 6 month payment	6 months by Direct Debit
Not over 150	£18	£18	£18.90	N/A	N/A
151-400	£41	£41	£43.05	N/A	N/A
401-600	£62	£62	£65.10	£34.10	£32.55
Over 600	£85	£85	£89.25	£46.75	£44.63