Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > new number plates

[AK]

Only one word of warning from AK about the plates:

If you have a bike REGISTERED since April 04, you should have the correct size plate & spaced & sized letters. If not, Mr policeman may poss bring this into question if you are asked to stop.

C

[weeveetwin]

Deej

A recent utility bill places you at a known address, whereas your passport/licence etc may be a little out of date. That way, when you (and your plate) are caught on camera doing 31mph in a 30 limit, they know exactly where to collect the funds. Ho hum. Just a thought..

[rockhopper]

No i dont work for Bridge, dont even know where they are!

We got a plate with funny spaced letters for Lynns car from Mal a while back. No id needed.

[Stevo]

Deej,
As far as keeping the plate on (I also have had the same problem), either use sticky tape on the nut side (oooooh) or drill a small hole in the screw bit behind the plate after you have tightened them and pass a thin bit of wire through the hole. Even if the nut works loose it'll still stay on.
By the way, I also tried PTFE tape on the thread but it didn't work.

[deej]

ive seen those funny shaped car plates, quite different and good way of using the law to suit yourself

cheers guys,

surely if your passport matches your driving licence its no different to a gas bill, mines all upto date as i only moved house 4 months ago

hey it dont matter as i have 1 ordered from malplates and didnt get caught by the police, i was just angry thats all, at the end of the day i still have my first ducati in the garage and thats what counts

[DJ Tera]

Ahem



"Sorry officer but you know how vibey twins are, the reg plate fell off earlier and rather than ride around TOTALLY illegally I thought I'd make a plate up til I get around to it tomorrow morning"

Hey they didnt do me for it when they pulled me for a chat about my "progressive riding" at 3am this morning

I'm not sure if its reflective enough to show up on GATSO though

[Edited on 18-10-2004 by DJ Tera]

[Ian]

another side to this (perhaps over zealous) behaviour of dealers supplying plates is that they can I believe be held responsible or accesory's to a crime.?

A guy I worked with had his bike number plate cloned which I believe is an enormous problem within the UK, (and the reason why i would never post a picture on this site showing a bike number plate (lets not make it easier than it is for them)). The criminal sees your bike matching the stolen one he has in his lock up and makes up a plate to match your one that he has just seen passing by. It being an actual plate matching the bike description he is less lilkely to be stopped on a suspect check up. Anyway back to the story of the guy i worked with: He was arrested for hit and run and given that it later turned out that the pedistrian was killed and he could not initially remember his whereabouts at the time of the accident he was in serious trouble until he could prove that it was not him. The responsibility was on him to prove that he was his innocent given that the bike involved in the hit and run matched exactly the bike he owned.

[deej]

that bad but its how low some people will go in this country

my cousin got a letter through from kent police charging her with dangerous parking or something stupid, probelm being we live in cornwall and she had to prove her innocence, luckily she married a traffic cop and they were at the policemans ball the night of the alleged offence so had 50+ cops as witnesses,its now going through proceedings but i think she'll be ok on this 1

[Rocker]

This may not be popular with those with something to hide but the need to prove identity would be much easier if the idea if National ID cards went ahead.After all we already have ID numbers. In my job I often need people to prove their identity and such a card would make it easier both for them and me
I am sure I will now get flamed by at least one certain member

[deej]

sounds good to me as it saves the hassle ive had trying to make my new bike road legal again
it would also stop all the other dodgy things like no car insurance, no tax, any convictions and stuff, would be okay with me