Registering your machine

The following relates to machines to be registered in the United Kingdom only, other countries have their own specific requirements.
You have your BSA motorcycle but it did not come with any registration documents.
Do you know the registration number if not then you have to go down the age related registration route.
Do you have any historic documents with it such as an old log book, pre-1985 tax discs, old MoT’s or dealer receipts. If you have then you should be able to retain the registration. So go to retaining an original registration. If you have the log book does the frame number match that on the machine if it does then continue on but if it doesn’t then you will not be able to retain the registration and so go the age related registration.
Do you know the registration but no documentation came with the machine. Check the remaining registration records on the web site. If they do exist you need to obtain a copy from the register or card and then you should be able to retain the original registration. If the records have been destroyed then you will need to apply for an age related registration.
You should remember that the Club can only recommend that a registration is retained or an age related registration is allocated it cannot instruct. The DVLA has the final say.
Also if the machine has been radically altered then it will probably be allocated a ‘Q’ plate registration. By radically altered means that if it has say, Yamaha front forks and wheels, Norton gearbox and a Moto Guzzi rear wheel and rear suspension so that the only original BSA part is the frame, which had to be altered and the engine. This machine would not be able to be registered under either of the above routes. In this circumstance contact the librarian either by letter or by e-mail librarian@bsaownersclub.co.uk to discuss further.