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Bicycle MOTs would surely be unbelievably difficult to enforce.
With a new car you get 3 years till the MOT is needed but is this not because cars are assembled in a strictly controlled and quality sampled factory environment. They are not assembled by a work experience kid at the local halfords (or worse - asda/tesco etc) who puts the forks on the wrong way round and doesn't know a headset press from an allen key.
I'd reckon that within 3 years a very high percentage of bikes have been discarded/replaced. Especially kids bikes.
As for riders like ourselves it'd be a doddle to circumvent the system. When it comes time to MOT my motorbike (Royal Enfield) i will have to reattach indicators and mirrors, change the exhaust back to the standard one, possibly rejet the carb to get the emissions down, swap my silver and black number plate for a standard yellow one. It'll take about a days work to get it ready for MOT and then another day after to put it back and il do this every year. How long will it take to slap a couple reflectors and a brake or 2 onto a track bike?