Register a new bike with an old plate

**braillce** · 03-12-2012, 11:24 AM

Hey.

I'm in Shanghai.

Does anyone know how to register a new bike with a plate I own already (on another bike), and what are the conditions under which it is possible.

If it is at all...

I have a DD250G with a 户A plate and was lurking at a 2nd hand CBR400, and was thinking of how to swap bikes while keeping the plate...

Any input welcome.

Thx.

**ZMC888** · 03-12-2012, 12:06 PM

I reckon there might be a way to put that plate on a new bike.

**braillce** · 03-12-2012, 12:24 PM

Can't remember where I've heard someone mentioning it was a hassle, but doable...

**ZMC888** · 03-12-2012, 04:34 PM

I'm not from Shanghai, so it might not be relevant. I think that it's retrospectively hard but not impossible to transfer a plate to another bike. If maybe the CB400 had all its original import documents and VIN number and had already been legally registered at some time before it might be fairly doable. If however there are no documents and the CB400 was nicked from Hong Kong, much less easy. May depend on Guanxi/money levels mood of Gong An dealing with you and relevant paperwork available.

This is TIC and I may be wrong, and that goes with the territory.

**euphonius** · 03-13-2012, 04:04 AM

Actually, here in Shanghai the ONLY source of plates for bikes are bikes with plates. The city has not issued fresh plates in years, so the only way to get a plate is to buy one from someone whose bike has reached the mandatory scrapping date and cannot reregister that bike. If your older bike has not reached its mandatory scrapping date, you'll have to prove that it's been scrapped anyway, or removed from Shanghai. I think the trick will be whether you can prove that the bike you want to plate, which you've described as second hand, can be shown to be legally registrable. As ZMC888 suggests, that will require the greatest effort. The system is much better at plating new vehicles with all the proper paperwork.

cheers

**braillce** · 03-13-2012, 04:36 AM

Ok...

Thanks for the advises guys.

I guess I'll have a few questions for the bikes owners and for a couple other people...

The candidates:

http://sh.ganji.com/motuoche/12031200_1639929.htm

http://sh.ganji.com/motuoche/12030821_1633254.htm

Blue one shows an out of town plate.

White one seems like it could have one too, cropped out of the pics (?).

I'll follow up here if & when I get answers...

PS:

Feelings about those ads are welcome too.