It's in a crate, so should the assumption be that this was reckoned by the authorities to be a stolen bike that was being illegally imported?? Even if this is the case, its pretty tough on the original owner and just plain wrong to do this with such a desirable machine.
That's just blatant stupidity. If it's a paperwork issue surely you sort the paperwork not crush a perfectly good, desirable and most likely treasured bike. The world makes me angry sometimes it really does. Who comes up with that as a solution, I mean seriously WTF!!!
Absolutely but we have similar regs here now don't we? Aren't uninsured vehicles and un-taxed vehicles liable for crushing now??
Yep, they'll start knocking down houses without TV licences soon and then wonder why the homeless population increases. Morons!
I believe the seizure clause is invoked in the UK if the driver has no insurance and of course if the vehicle is not road worthy. Andy
Okay, a little bit of research and this is old news. Guy emigrated to Australia several years ago and took his bike with him without asking if he could bring it with him. Government gave him the option to export it, get a permit and reimport it or it gets crushed. Clearly too much faff for the bloke and it got crushed. Andy
Confiscate and sell it, give money to charity. Got to be better than just turning into land fill surely. Or just give it to me.
He didn't deserve it if he was going to let that happen. Taking it out on the bike is like taking it out on children.
So, does anyone know what the relative costs of exporting the bike back to the place it was sent from and then re importing it with the correct permit ? I'll bet it was higher than the cost of buying another bike. Hard decision but if the bloke had done it properly in the first place we wouldn't be having this conversation. Andy
The crushing action alone would be enough for me to do a U-turn , I wonder why they don't include a dismantling option/destroy the frame or even selling it to a trusted dealer who would destroy the frame.
Depends on where it came from of course. However there is no way that shipping it crated to the UK and back to Australia by sea would cost anything like the value of the bike. Something else must have gone on.
Not according to the original story as told, the guy declined the offer to re import it so it went to the scrap heap as pictured. Andy
Probably on finance and he just thought, screw it, not my bike so they can crush it and I'll sign up to new finance here.
