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Blunet600
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PostPosted: 00:28 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: honeycomb number plates Reply with quote

Do they work? is it worth getting Honeycomb on a numberplate?
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McGee
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PostPosted: 00:30 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Work how ?

They will still get your plate number.

Only thing that works is taking the plate off completely.
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PostPosted: 00:32 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

is there anything that can prevent your number being caught by a speed camera?
Does honeycomb stop it?
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PostPosted: 00:34 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope.

And none of the sprays work either.

One thing that would work I guess would be like those holographics stickers you got as a kid you know you move them and the image moves.

If you could make a plate that reads normally when looking straight at it but from the camera angle it reads something else like Fvck the Poh-leese it may work.
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Its pronounced Jixxer!
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PostPosted: 00:53 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Best thing to do is clone a number off another bike and get a show plate made up. It will make you a total kynt though and you will rot in hell for doing it
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PostPosted: 01:15 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

best way to obscure your number plate is dirt and oil as you can always claim that you just hadnt got round to cleaning it

they can still bust you, but it doesnt look quite so deliberate
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PostPosted: 01:51 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

if honeycombe effect on your numberplate helped obscure your plate, halfords wouldn't sell them Wink
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PostPosted: 03:52 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a spray on mine and have been flashed twice and not been done for either.
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PostPosted: 03:54 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

chris-red wrote:
I have a spray on mine and have been flashed twice and not been done for either.


Because they saw the speed and then looked at the fact it was a GS and thought it was a camera malfunction.
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PostPosted: 04:17 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

McGee wrote:
chris-red wrote:
I have a spray on mine and have been flashed twice and not been done for either.


Because they saw the speed and then looked at the fact it was a GS and thought it was a camera malfunction.


That was on the Speed Four I haven't done it to the GS yet, one for 65 in a 40 and the other 45 in a 30.
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PostPosted: 08:19 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm it would seem logical to make a number plate or a number plate cover out of amber,

see this little comic strip from the 1980s.

The MORE you polish the amber , the more dust it attracts. Wink

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PostPosted: 08:24 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cling Film works well for my 'pa's mate Thumbs Up

He's been flashed with me on the back and pretty much all the time and never got a ticket.
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PostPosted: 08:37 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

colin1 wrote:
best way to obscure your number plate is dirt and oil as you can always claim that you just hadnt got round to cleaning it



The rest of your bike has to be suitable dirty though.
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PostPosted: 08:46 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Being flashed doesn't mean there was film in the camera, the film still hasn't finished or it's not a 'dummy' camera. Majority of flashes don't lead to prosecutions, I'd say.
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PostPosted: 09:02 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

G wrote:
Being flashed doesn't mean there was film in the camera, the film still hasn't finished or it's not a 'dummy' camera. Majority of flashes don't lead to prosecutions, I'd say.


Usually you get one flash if you're OK, and two if there is film in it. Some of them are supposed to be digital these days, where there is no limit on the number of pictures they can take.
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PostPosted: 09:29 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

What I've heard is one flash tends to be a dummy camera – there was definitely one in London that ‘got’ me that was confirmed to be a dummy.
This was always ‘on’.

Generally I thought two flashes were still seen if the camera had either just run out of film or has been turned on without film.
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PostPosted: 09:43 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Halfords has always bugged me that they wont do illegal spacing but will do Honeycomb despite it being illegal

from the DVLA
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Is a honeycombed or other background pattern permitted?

No, overprinting including honeycomb or other background designs are not allowed.
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PostPosted: 10:02 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

McGee wrote:
chris-red wrote:
I have a spray on mine and have been flashed twice and not been done for either.


Because they saw the speed and then looked at the fact it was a GS and thought it was a camera malfunction.

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PostPosted: 10:45 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have seen a better system ........my mates dads got on on all of his bikes its a plastic thing that flips down (and covers the number plate ) when you press a button on the handalbar and flips back up with another button

Its great

I cant find a picture of it anywhere........
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PostPosted: 10:55 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

MarJay wrote:
Usually you get one flash if you're OK, and two if there is film in it. Some of them are supposed to be digital these days, where there is no limit on the number of pictures they can take.


True at first, but they realised this a decade or so ago and changed them so even as dummies they flash twice. Otherwise it is too obvious.

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PostPosted: 10:57 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

By the way; the digital Gatsos, I believe, are smaller and generally mounted higher up.
Google should give you some details, if anyone’s interested.

You can also get LCD panels that go black at the touch of a button, but are otherwise clear.
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PostPosted: 14:02 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've seen lots of cars with some sort of wrinkled clear (plastic) film over their rear plates. The film really does break up the image (number) behind the film, from just off-centre. Not sure if it is intended to 'work' with cameras, or just a delamination of crappy plates.
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PostPosted: 15:22 - 04 Apr 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bru wrote:
I've seen lots of cars with some sort of wrinkled clear (plastic) film over their rear plates. The film really does break up the image (number) behind the film, from just off-centre. Not sure if it is intended to 'work' with cameras, or just a delamination of crappy plates.


Nowadays most numberplates are made up of a thin backing refered to as a 'reflective' which has the number plate details printed onto it, this is then bonded onto a piece of clear acrylic with an adhesive.
So, plates made in this fashion do not 'delaminate' as such. The most common problem is when the mounting holes get drilled from the wrong side(acrylic side up), the reflective then lifts slightly from the acrylic and moisture gets in.

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