Front Number Plate

[Guest Battery Bill]

Our "Small" front numberplate did not last too long

You can see Here that it was a "Bit Small" shall we say

[Guest melomax]

i have rode bikes for years and went back to legal plates a long time ago as i got fed up with being pulled over ! warren

 

hi i am a sad person who basically sits and makes plates all day everyday

 

now the law regards to the plates are that it has to be of a specific reflective matirial with the manufactures name at bottom and of the correct spacing and font with bs number at bottom and then it has to be sandwitched with a road legal 3mm anti shatter cllear perspex

 

so regards to a sticky plate the only thing iligal would be the fact that it hasnt got the perspex

[enforcer]

so regards to a sticky plate the only thing iligal would be the fact that it hasnt got the perspex

 

So it's still illegal then.

 

So, make a sticky plate out of reflective perspex and mould it to the contours of your nosecone, then all you have got to do is convince the officer/court that it is mounted near to vertical so as to be legible from 75 feet and you might get away with it.

 

Personally I have just used a proper number plate (Life's too short)

[Guest scottie686]

Just out of curiosity, why is it not illegal for motorbikes not to have a front plate but it is for a car?!?

[enforcer]

Same piece of legislation Scottie - motorcycles are only required to display a plate to the rear - and we all know that they ALL comply with the regulations prescribing size

[Guest tom2b]

Motorbikes used to have metal front number plates, upright on the front mudguard. If you were unfortunate enough to go over the handlebars it would "brain" you quite literally.

[Guest peter2b2002]

My front plate is mounted under the nose cone on my 2b, done a bit of off roading!! still there 2 years later

pete2b

[Guest yosamite sam]

i had the unfortunate MOT where my number plate did fail!!

 

it was metal and the two sides left and right were bent backwards to make it a bit less sharp?? - anyway the tester failed it because it was not straight!!! FFS!! he showed me the MOT book regarding plates and it said summink on the lines of ALL plates should be as near to verticle and straight as possible for recognition by the law enforcement persons.. all plates had to be the correct size and spacings and letter styles of course but a lot of people are getting around the small plate by removing it!! if you have a plate that is hard to find a spot for they simply take it off rather than modify it deliberately. from what i gather the penalties for not displaying a plate 'ooops it just fell off officer and i have it here behind the seat..' the penalties are less for that than deliberately making a plate illegal such as making it small..

there are lots of 7 type cars with that senario..

[enforcer]

The offence and penalty are the same (fail to display vehicle registration mark).

 

Now if you alter you plate with the intention of changing its identity (putting black tape on a 'C' to make it a 'G' for example you could be staring down the barrel of a 2 year prison sentence!

 

Think your MOT inspector was a bit harsh, and I still don't believe number plates are an MOT check point but will happily stand corrected.

[Guest stu205]

our works van failed the MOT on the front plate, the sticky white bit had peeled away in the top corner he said that the DVLA are clamping down on them?!?!?

[Guest elwe]

I had a cracked front plate once and had to replace it to pass the MOT.

[Guest Alan_builder]

just make an air dam out of the number plate & mount to improve the road holding!

 

I my RH

[Guest carl leonard]

The 'Queens' never had any number plates fitted and she never get's stopped.

 

One rule for one and one rule for another!!

[Guest salty_monk]

I lost my plate on the Red one at Llandow in an 80mph spin (first time) & drove it round for ages with no plate, just the snapped parts in the passenger footwell as an attempt at a "get out of jail free".....

 

The black one has the proper plate mounted below the nosecone.

 

I think we are mostly lucky with hoods as they look like a stick on plate or no plate belongs there. To my mind the tiny small plates are like thumbing your nose at anyone who's interested, just screams look at me, I'm wrong. I'd go with no plate again before using one of them...

 

Dan

[Guest Andy Rathbone]

mine is mounted neatly at the bottom edge of the nose cone on a couple of little hinges to if you do hit anything it swings up. when parked the number plate is exactly vertical no matter what gradient of hill your parked on the rear one you have to be 75 feet away to read as its tucked under the bottom of the spare wheel