£60 fine for illegal sized reg plate...

[crowe]

Thought i would post this in case anyone was thinking of 'going small'.
I got pulled by police today for having illegal sized reg plate. £60 fine. I've had the bike 2 months and it's MOT is due tomorrow. I was going to change it after today's ride permanently. Sod's law i got pulled!

On the plus side i didn't receive any points on my license and i didn't get done for speeding (it was a 60 and i was probably doing 60-75).

I have to admit the copper was pretty decent and wasn't arrogant at all, so i guess they're not all bad apples

Here's the offending plate with the cringe worthy text below (the copper just laughed at it).

https://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m48/goodgabba/ZX7R/regFAR1.jpg

https://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m48/goodgabba/ZX7R/regcloseup.jpg

Crowe
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[Acemastr]

That does take the piss a little

a price we pay for having aesthetics
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[bacon]

enjoying the 7r bud?

[crowe]

[Doovy]

A one line plate is obvious..

mine is 5x7 and it's been fine.

there's small.. and then there's taking the piss
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[Frost]

https://www.xrv.org.uk/photopost/data/873/bignumberplatet.jpg

[JP7]

They recently doubled the fines for car seatbelts, and registration plates to £60, although still no points thankfully!

Bad luck for getting stopped, I had a traffic cop in his car stare at my dark visor today but he let me get on with it, he must have been a biker!

[jimspeed]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Meh, 1 liners are maximum piss take, so I'm not surprised.

Also like to point out that the comically over sized plate is illegal since it doesn't conform to the standard, so they could get done for that too.
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[Polarbear]

1 liners are illegal, so while a small square plate might get away with a warning, the letterbox ones aren't if you are stopped.
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[27cows]

Bit harsh. Copper could have just warned you and told you to replace it, that's what they normally do. Guess they've been told to screw all the cash they can get out of the punters, like we haven't got enough woes already.
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[Rogerborg]

The usual caveat: you weren't fined, the copper offered to take a bribe to not prosecute you.

If you're feeling feisty, you can always choose not to pay the bribe, go in front of a Magistrate and then plead guilty - if the CPS prosecute it and the copper shows up.

In this case though, you're banged to rights and were indeed ripping the piss.
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[ZaphodBeeble]

Single line plates are a bad idea. They get picked up by ANPR while stacked plates apparently don't. That's according to a police biker acquaintance of mine.
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[Banned]

I had a traffic cop in his car stare at my dark visor today but he let me get on with it, he must have been a biker!

WTF ...
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[Daimo]

I've gone only 1" donw in size. Think its a 6x4 now instead of 7x5.

1 letter on lower line
4 characters on top line.

Only gone down a tiny bit so not to draw too much attention to it.

But it looks the bollocks Came off my ex show car.



https://images18.fotki.com/v329/photos/4/48802/3559378/P1010930-vi.jpg

As for being pulled, if you've got an illegal plate and get tugged for it, no-one can really moan. Take the risk, can't cry when we're done for it.

You watch, first time I take it out, i'll be pulled

[DrDonnyBrago]

[Nixon]

Can I just ask though what is the point of a single line number plate if you keep the stock indicators??

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[crowe]

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