Post by marktrower on Mar 5, 2015 13:27:42 GMT
found on a royal enfield furom . at the end of the recent and excellent channel 4 documentary our guy in india. our hero guy martin in praising the re bullet 500 he was taken with the idea of riding the bike home to grimsby. admirirable this thought is,it has not been feasible to do this for some time because,although it can be done ie buying the bike cheaply and riding it to the uk,the dvla will not register an india sourced machine for use on the road in the uk. the reason for this is that all machines legitimately imported have to be ce compliant or homologater for use in europe. regrettably the indian market product is not compliant and although you could spend time and money going through the sva process (single vehicle authorisation) by the time you get to the dvla they will still want a manufacture certificate of hormologatoin. the chennai factory not issue this to you no matter how you ask them. therefoure the value of the bike after import duty ,vat sva testing etc. will be scrap value . rode a royal enfield in goa about 6 years ago it was the worst bike i have rode in my life gave it back the nest day and rented a scooter of one of the cooks at the hotel .nether rode a uk bike.
