Trying to work out if I need to fill out a form V112!
I bought my 1976 TL125 last year in boxes but there was no V5. Paid my 25 quid and got one in my name last month. Got a tax reminder yesterday saying I must tax it immediately as it hadn’t been taxed since 1995. Don’t need tax or MOT for 40 year old stuff but DVLA site says you need to apply for tax exemption.
Any idea?
Hi, Admin Staff here:
Have a look at the V5, the taxation class should already say “Historic Vehicle”. If it does then you can tax it online at the princely sum of £0 and just tick the box for MOT exempt.
If V5 says something else then you have to take paperwork to the post office and tax it there (take the V5 and the reminder letter and a completed V112). It will still cost £0. The post office will send the V5 to DVLA to get the tax class updated to Historic. They don’t do anything with the V112. You get to bring it home again. (Don’t send the V5 to DVLA yourself, that doesn’t work. Do take a copy before you hand it over in case DVLA loses it).
If the bike has been substantially altered then it probably won’t classify as Historic and it will need to go through the usual MOT/Tax/Insurance regime.
If the bike consists of a frame and boxes of parts then just bung it on a SORN. You can do that online. DVLA just need to see that it has either been taxed or sorned.
Warning - if you do tax it then make sure you insure it else DVLA sends threatening letters.
Incidentally, we have been known to tax a bike that is still in bits in order to get the V5 updated to Historic. When the new V5 arrives just bung it on a sorn and that solves the insurance issue.
Hope this helps
Over and out
I approve this reply as the Admin Staff does all my bikes now and it all seems to work ok. 
My two older bikes are registered in the Historic Vehicle category, as being over 40 years old. Every year I get a DVLA request to ‘tax’ them at a nil rate, to keep them on the active records I suppose, so I have to complete a simple online form for each bike every year. I do remember though that I had to complete a different form in the beginning to establish their status as Historic Vehicles in the first place.
As I am exactly the same age as my Vincent and 30 years older than my Guzzi, should I not be able to register for Historic Human status and get exemption from the attentions of HMRC?
No, thought not…
Thanks @Iron and @Dave49 I knew someone would know
V5 can’t say historic as it was going to cost me £25!
I have SORNed it so ok for now.
The Admin Staff hath spoken. All hail the Admin Staff.
…tonight I are be mostly watching the RSC production of Hamlet in Stratford. It is blimmin’ good, too.
No photos. Directors orders.
I went into the garage today. Got the TDM warming up for 10 mins and did some work on the CB450… I eventually got too cold and had to stop. It’s progress for me, but fucking slow. 
As it’s Valentine’s day I cleaned SWMBO’s car for her.
Who said romance is dead…
Slightly Valentines related….
We are in Vietnam and took a local taxi with a guide yesterday. We ended up at the Lang Co! lagoon where the main industry is fish and water related unsurprisingly.
The Vietnamese have found a way to farm oysters in the tidal lagoon.
Several years ago one of the fishermen found an old scooter tyre that had been thrown into the lagoon and for some reason oysters had just clung to it. He reaped them and sold them at the market.
He got to thinking that maybe he should put the tyre back in the lagoon and see if he could replicate the unexpected harvest. Sure enough over the coming months oysters started to cling to the tyre again.
He watched and waited and for some strange reason it seems that the tyres were an ideal place for the oysters to nest and he just started placing more and more tyres in the lagoon. It’s like magic, oysters come and cling to the tyres and no one knows why.
More and more farmers started to follow this man’s lead and now it’s bringing more and more oysters into the lagoon.
They are selling them at around $1\ Kilo to the restaurants and many dealers are buying and selling in the big cities.
And the strangest part of all this, the town of Lang Co! has many families with 10,11,12 or morechildren….apparently oysters do have an effect and there’s not much on TV in Vietnam…!
We didn’t try them but apparently they are “ rubbery”:…!
Not “rubbery” enough, it would seem…
Sold in Michelin 
restaurant’s possibly…?
Perhaps they should try this in the Avon ?
Or The Mull of Kin-tyre?
I think you’re treading on thin ice! Get a grip …
Depends on whether it’s a good year.
Saving £60 ordering a new battery for SWMBO’s Beemer with my Halfords trade card, just got to pop onto my local shop to get it fitted now (it will need registering as her car has stop start and I don’t have an ODB port plug in thingy). It’s had a couple of really slow cranks just lately and putting my charger on it it’s been showing well below 12v when I first switch the charger on so time for a swap before it dies at a most inconvenient time as it’s nearly 9 years old now.
I’ve just done the same replacement on my X1. Interestingly the MPG improved on eco mode once I had the new battery fitted…!