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fritz the dog
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PostPosted: 09:49 - 16 Jul 2015    Post subject: new member needs advice Reply with quote
Hi everyone, can someone please tell me if I leave my bike outside my house on the road covered up, do I need to have reflectors on the cover? All advice gratefully received.
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NJD
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PostPosted: 09:56 - 16 Jul 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
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249
All vehicles MUST display parking lights when parked on a road or a lay-by on a road with a speed limit greater than 30 mph (48 km/h).
Law RVLR reg 24


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Parking in fog. It is especially dangerous to park on the road in fog. If it is unavoidable, leave your parking lights or sidelights on.


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Cars, goods vehicles not exceeding 1525 kg unladen weight, invalid carriages, motorcycles and pedal cycles may be parked without lights on a road (or lay-by) with a speed limit of 30 mph (48 km/h) or less if they are:

at least 10 metres (32 feet) away from any junction, close to the kerb and facing in the direction of the traffic flow
in a recognised parking place or lay-by.


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That's the letter of the law if your interested, nothing about reflectors, I'd think that the number of people who know or actually do the above could be counted on one hand.
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fritz the dog
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PostPosted: 10:38 - 16 Jul 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks NJD that clears that up for me.
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Rogerborg
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PostPosted: 10:56 - 16 Jul 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice one, NJD. Thumbs Up

NJD wrote:
That's the letter of the law if your interested

<adenoids>Letter of the law is:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/regulation/24/made
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But the Highway Code offers a pretty decent translation into English.

Reflectors are not mentioned, only that lamps must be lit and unobscured.

Interestingly (to me) the The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 go to great lengths to describe the construction, layout and fixing of registration plates, but (as far as I can see) don't actually prohibit obscuring the plate by simply covering it.

You may cry common sense, but they also don't make any distinction (other than lighting while in use on a road) about the location of the vehicle. Under a cover on the road is no more obscured than parked tight against a wall, or behind a gate, or in a garage.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/561/made
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PostPosted: 13:57 - 16 Jul 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think if it was law.the makers of covers would have to/ or would fit them ..
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PostPosted: 14:28 - 16 Jul 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
sidewinder wrote:
I think if it was law.the makers of covers would have to/ or would fit them ..

Why?
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