Do I need to register a motorcycle when buying it in Thailand?

Sorry, you NEED to register, because withg that comes the tax and insurance every year. You can drive without, but then the police will let you pay dearly...

@Michael *******

but if you can't show the greenbook, police will seize/confiscate the bike. See the rows of dusty old bikes in a compound next to any police station, they will mostly be without greenbooks.

Hello sir, I recognise your name from other posts, sometimes quite rightly questioning things. I also question everything, and I try to avoid following the norm if I think I can get around things a different, easier and cheaper way. Sometimes it works out, more often though I get burnt a little, and I must go back, deal with whatever in the correct manner, and pay the price, all of which I was told in the first place. So the bike - copy of green book is worthless, doesn't matter if you have it or don't. The price is attractive, because it can't be registered again without greenbook. Usually bikes/cars without greenbooks sell around 25-50% of their true value. If you have one, and try to sell, you see buyers lose interest on hearing this, and you'll be lucky to sell it at 25-50%. I'm quite sure that any insurance you buy will not payout without seeing the greenbook, even if not in your name (if you genuinely borrow/use the bike of a friend and wanted your own insurance, for example). So in the event of an accident, your costs won't be covered, damage to bike and you, neither will the third party be covered, and you will be responsible. In such event of having no insurance, the police become aware if not already, and they will come to take your passport as a little guarantee you won't do a runner. I read a European girl in koh pha ngan had a minor collision, but the other rider broke a toe, and the hospitals are taking them both for a ride, and looking at a 300,000 baht bill, and uninsured. Police took her passport (maybe requested by hospital) The police will also not release your bike, until you show the greenbook. I have had this three times now. I didn't register the bike in my name, I left it in the name of the seller, a bike rental guy. But I have the greenbook, and the photocopy of the sellers ID/Passport needed to re-register. As i rented the bike initially, the date of sale is not defined. Once after an accident, where the police had to lift my bike off the road and put it in their compound, they were satisfied with greenbook and that bike was a rental. Another time a thai friend was using it, he was stopped and couldn't produce the greenbook, they seized the bike until he got the greenbook from me to show. Both these instances, we would have lost the bike for ever, and whatever we paid for it. I've contemplated a bike without greenbook, but just a motocross bike for driving through jungle and mountains. But I wouldn't consider it to drive on main roads also I'm on koh samui, so traffic police maybe more chilled. Where are you ? And what bike and what price ?

@Michael *******

they will sell you insurance with no licence and no registration AND will payout in the event of an accident ? please show me where ......

@Michael *******

you are so.e thing and something else at the same time you love wasting people's time .you are at

real

PITA

@Michael *******

up to you 😊😊

@Michael *******

what country allows such a rule ?

@Michael *******

not registered but insured ????? 5555

is that on the moon or on mercury or which planet ??? keep us informed it's really interexting ???5555/

@Michael *******

yes that's because a lot of Thai people don't follow the law so it's not surprising.

@Michael *******

Oh, definitely! Because we all know that geographical location and chair position are the ultimate indicators of knowledge. Anyone sitting on the "second half of the world" must be completely clueless.

@Michael *******

And yet you're posting BS. How is that ?

@Michael *******

Stop joking !

@Michael *******

you are wrong, you need all of the above.

@Michael *******

ok they are here.

Which country?