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classy56
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Scuse my ignorance, but why don't bikes have a front number plate 
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Tim Buxton
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| classy56 wrote: | | Scuse my ignorance, but why don't bikes have a front number plate |
For one, the numberplate used to be in line with the bike on the front mudguard. Think of that metal blade travelling at upto 70mph....
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| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| classy56 wrote: | | Scuse my ignorance, but why don't bikes have a front number plate |
Classy's got a point. Seeing that some sports bikes and others, are now sporting those ever-so-small numberplates, why can't a small plate be attached to the front! As in front facing and not knife edge as in days of old!
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Because them small plate, will get you a £30 fine, when on the back
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| Tim Buxton wrote: | | Think of that metal blade travelling at upto 70mph.... |
I can imagine the effect of a metal blade as Tim is suggesting - but "upto 70mph" oh, if only, I think he missed a 1 off the front of that speed which would make a metal blade even more devstating.
Having a front number plate in this position would also render it pretty much unreadable...
..but there's no reason why a front number plate can't be placed across the front of a bike
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Perhaps they should be forced to have a huge big square plate mounted on one front fork, like some 'L' plates !!! 
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It was mentioned somewhere that if you do something stupid often enough, you might well get caught and the guy in this article was 1 of only 3 in the county to own this distinctive model of motorbike so his repeated antics with speed cameras backfired on him.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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| GPS_fan wrote: | | ..but there's no reason why a front number plate can't be placed across the front of a bike |
OK, and where would you put it? Last time I checked, the front of my bike was round and pointy. It doesn't have a big flat surface that you can stick a plate on like a car.
Quite aside from that, a front number plate would look ugly and very few other countries see the need to have them so I don't see why UK bikers should.
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| GPS_fan wrote: | | Tim Buxton wrote: | | Think of that metal blade travelling at upto 70mph.... |
I can imagine the effect of a metal blade as Tim is suggesting - but "upto 70mph" oh, if only, I think he missed a 1 off the front of that speed which would make a metal blade even more devstating.
Having a front number plate in this position would also render it pretty much unreadable...
..but there's no reason why a front number plate can't be placed across the front of a bike |
My bike won't even do 170, mister, honest. 8O
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| Skippy wrote: | | OK, and where would you put it? |
...answers on a postcard please
Bearing in mind the number of bikers with rediculously coloured headlights, perhaps a good place to put it would be over the headlight 
OK, so perhaps I was wrong with my previous comment.
Some bikes look ugly even without a front number plate
Possibly more important than the way a bike looks is the way it's being ridden
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| Tim Buxton wrote: | | My bike won't even do 170, mister, honest. 8O |
 Ahh, so you are admitting you have tried to do that speed then?
 No, of course not, that would be wrong.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Tim Buxton wrote: | | My bike won't even do 170, mister, honest. 8O |
Not even downhill with a tail wind?
My wife recently had a biker go head first through her rear window whilst filtering through traffic on a dual carriageway and having seen the state of her car, I can only imagine what a difference there might have been had the bike had one of the 'blade' number plates as mentioned...it would have been like a tin opener cutting through the bodywork of the car.
I think it might be worth thinking about the relative speed of traffic and motorbikes in the days when they had these number plates on their front mudguard
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| Skippy wrote: | | Tim Buxton wrote: | | My bike won't even do 170, mister, honest. 8O |
Ahh, so you are admitting you have tried to do that speed then?
No, of course not, that would be wrong. |
Skippy, how could you? I was merely quoting from available road tests, conducted on private closed circuits, of course.  Cor, whatever next?
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| Tim Buxton wrote: | | My bike won't even do 170, mister, honest. 8O |
...or are we misinterpreting this and what you really mean is that it won't go as slow as 170
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