When you apply to the DVLA to register a bike which has been dormant for a long time, you have to be able to document the stamped numbers - whatever they are. That is my reason for number-hunting.
My father once bought a bike (a 4 year old Inter Norton), and checked the frame + engine numbers against the registration papers - and discovered that they had been incorrectly recorded. It was clearly a mistake, not a 'ringer'. Had this been discovered by someone 'in authority' without his dealing with it, he would have had a problem.
My father once bought a bike (a 4 year old Inter Norton), and checked the frame + engine numbers against the registration papers - and discovered that they had been incorrectly recorded. It was clearly a mistake, not a 'ringer'. Had this been discovered by someone 'in authority' without his dealing with it, he would have had a problem.