Showing L plates with full licence

[TravisBickle]

My bike is in the garage so I'm having to borrow my wife's 125 with L plates on to get to work and back.

One of my colleagues has just told me it's illegal to ride with L plates while holding a full licence and it carries a 3 point penalty if prosecuted.

I've just checked the government website. It says it's a 6 point penalty for riding without L plates if you're a learner, but all it says about riding with a full licence is that the plates should be removed. No mention of endorsements or a fine.

Anyone know definitively if it's possible to be fined or endorsed?
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[arry]

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/l-plate-size-rules/l-plate-sizes

Remember what the Highway Code says about MUST and SHOULD

[c_dug]

Legal or not to ride with them displayed, I'd probably stick a bit of gaffa/electrical tape diagonally across the plate.

Don't know why, that's just what I'd do.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

As arry says, 'must' or 'shall' is an instruction that has to be followed, 'should' is advisory as far as the law is concerned.
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[stinkwheel]

If there's a black stripe across it, it's not -legally speaking-, an L-plate.

It's what we used to do with our car when I was learning.
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[TravisBickle]

Thanks for the advice guys seems to be as I suspected that my colleague was talking bollocks. Normally I'd have dismissed the comment as BS but I remember seeing a YouTube video of a guy test riding and reviewing a Bandit they just bought for their riding school and at the start of the video he made a point of saying "it's ok that I'm taking this bike out on L plates because it's a riding school bike and I'm an instructor" so that did kinda make me wonder if it was illegal to ride on L plates with a full licence but certainly didn't think it would be an endorsable offence. Never occured to me before seeing that video that it might be an offence, I mean you see cars with L plates on all the time that are CLEARLY not being driven by a learner and it's the mum or dad just haven't bothered taking the plates off between teaching their child. But having said that, just because you see something frequently doesn't necessarily mean it's legal, just seems a silly thing to be illegal to me :-/

Guy at work was trying to argue that riding on L plates with a full licence is as bad as a learner riding without L plates. I was having none of it but he was insistent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQIirXAcQ6Y

[stablepeach]

You ever driven with L plates on?

My mate did when his missus was learning and he reported that he got way more agro and arseholes than when he didn't have the plates even though he thought he was driving the same.
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[TravisBickle]

If anything I think that riding a 125 on the road without L plates would cause more anger and frustration from other motorists because from the speed and accelleration of the bike you can clearly tell it's a 125 and it's generally assumed that all 125 riders are on a provisional so they think it's just some little cunt bombing about on a 125 who can't be arsed with his L plates probably hasn't got insurance, tax or MOT either.

Got to be honest, that's what goes through my mind when I see a 125 without L plates on.
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[TravisBickle]

[TravisBickle]

Hang on, just realised you said DRIVE and not RIDE.

No, I only ever DROVE with L plates on in my instructors car when I was learning. Passed my car test and went straight into my own car without L plates or P plates.
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[A100man]

[TravisBickle]

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[TravisBickle]

[Freddyfruitba...]

[P.]

I carried pillion whilst having L plates clearly displayed on a moped, got pulled, because why wouldn't I, but they were fully aware that I could have them displayed.

[Nobby the Bastard]

Driving instructors don't take them off between pupils so why should anyone else give any fucks?
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[1198]

My driving instructor insisted he drove me back from my car test after my successful test as he said he was allowed to drive the car with L plates on and I wasn’t. Fair enough. What we could have done was simply remove the things and me drive - it was my bloody car after all!
Gave my parents the wrong idea when we showed up back at home with the L plates on and instructor driving...

[Nobby the Bastard]

[TravisBickle]

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[davebike]

AS said Driving / riding professional instructors are sort of OK with L plates up as are Mechanics but most put tape across the L plates
I been spoken to when I forgot !
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