Enter the registration on any page of this site. The free basic check returns bike details, MOT history, mileage at every test and tax status in a few seconds, with no account and no card.

Yes. No card details, no sign-up, no trial that starts billing later, and no cap on how many bikes you run through it. Checking your whole shortlist is what it is for.

Finance, theft markers, write-off records, scrapped records and keeper history. Those come from registers that charge per lookup, so nobody can give them away.

Anything registered with the DVLA, at any engine size.

Usually not. Bikes need no MOT until they are three years old, so anything younger has no test record at all. It also happens after a very recent plate transfer or on a registration too new to have reached the dataset.

All of them. It costs nothing and it will typically remove two or three from a shortlist of six before you make a single phone call.

The full check, on the one or two bikes you are serious about. A stolen marker or an active finance agreement found from your kitchen table saves you a wasted Saturday, and a bike is often worth a long drive that a car would not be.

£[X.XX] for a single check. One payment, no subscription, no auto-renewal.

A few seconds. Enter the registration and the report appears.

Yes. That is the better route on an import, on a bike with no plate fitted, or wherever you are not confident the plate and the machine belong together.

Treat that as an answer in itself. There is no legitimate reason to withhold it from a serious buyer, and a plate is visible in most adverts anyway.

The frame number on the headstock and the engine number on the crankcase, both against the V5C, character by character. Then the usual: fork seals, chain and sprockets, tyre dates, disc wear, head bearings, and whether the wear matches the mileage.

Leave, and do not explain why. Report what you saw to the police on 101 afterwards. A mismatch is the strongest single indicator of a cloned or rung bike.

Not necessarily. Replacement engines are common on older bikes and entirely legitimate when documented. Ask for the history and the receipts.

Almost every used bike has some. What matters is whether they were dealt with. An advisory that appears once and disappears means somebody fixed it. The same one carried across four tests means it has been ignored for four years.

Ask specifically rather than generally. Quote the recorded figure and the date and ask them to account for the difference. Genuine sellers usually can, often because they listed it wrong.

Not until it is settled. While an agreement is live, the finance company owns the bike rather than the seller. Ask for a settlement letter from the lender, verify it by calling the lender on a number you found yourself, and pay the settlement figure directly to them with the balance to the seller.

Do not agree to it. Pay the lender directly for the settlement portion. Anyone acting in good faith will accept that immediately because it costs them nothing.

Depends on the category. Cat A and Cat B must never return to the road. Cat S and Cat N can be legally repaired and ridden, and are often good value, but they are worth less than a clean example and a Cat S needs an independent inspection of the repair.

Walk away, hand over nothing, do not confront the seller, and report it on 101 or to Crimestoppers. Police can recover a stolen bike from whoever holds it, and a buyer who has already paid has very little recourse.

It is common in the private bike market and it leaves you no trail. A bank transfer gives you a record of who received the money, which matters if anything goes wrong.

It stays tied to the registration on your account. Come back to it whenever you like without paying again.

Contact us with the registration and what you have found. Where a guarantee applies, we will tell you how to claim. Where the event was never recorded on any register, which happens with privately repaired crash damage, we will tell you that too.

Yes, and it is worth doing. A clean report attached to an advert shortens the sale and protects your asking price.

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