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Black Knight
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PostPosted: 19:04 - 24 Oct 2005    Post subject: Flip-up plates - Legal??? Reply with quote
I've seen a few places advertizing 'plate flippers' basically a motor atached to your number plate. When a switch is activated the number plate is flipped so at an angle its unreadable.

Im guessing these are a little like radar jammers, legal to own but not to use?

Is that the case? Surely having one fitted is no problem as the offence is more to do with 'displaying' a plate???
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numark1
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PostPosted: 19:11 - 24 Oct 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Do you really think having one of them on a road legal bike on the road will be legal Thinking

Laughing Of course not.
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Scooby
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PostPosted: 19:11 - 24 Oct 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Go to the DVLA website, check out the legal number plates section. Having a hinge or similar is not legal on your numberplate Smile

I have however seen devices that flip the whole entire plate and lay it flat, i.e. horizontal with the undertray. This was a simple device rigged up with a choke cable off a Mk2 mini Laughing
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Liono
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PostPosted: 19:18 - 24 Oct 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
I should imagine that they are 'for show use only' or some such. I wonder if you could get done for perverting the course of justice if you used on going through a speed camera?
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colin1
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PostPosted: 19:22 - 24 Oct 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
id quite like one as long as i trusted it not to fall off or break and lose my numberplate
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Black Knight
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PostPosted: 19:55 - 24 Oct 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Scooby wrote:

I have however seen devices that flip the whole entire plate and lay it flat


Yep, thats what i've seen.

The hinge I believe is actually on a plate which the number plate then bolts to so no modification would be needed for the number plate itself.
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V4
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PostPosted: 20:24 - 24 Oct 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've got a nice velcro plate Rolling Eyes Anyone know if they're illegal?

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Josh|RD125LC
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PostPosted: 20:28 - 24 Oct 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
lllN30lll on this site, has a flip numberplate on his crossbred NS125. I'm sure he will have something to say about it
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Kickstart
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PostPosted: 20:40 - 24 Oct 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi

I have heard of someone being spotted parked up with such a plate and the police waiting for them to set off and pulling them over. Think the story was they got done for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Might not be true though.

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fast_tzr
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PostPosted: 21:19 - 24 Oct 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Liono wrote:
I should imagine that they are 'for show use only' or some such. I wonder if you could get done for perverting the course of justice if you used on going through a speed camera?


well if you went through a camera with it flipped up they wont know who you are anyway! Still, it would be a good idea, I'm sure you could get it rigged to the throttle cable so if you fullthrottled it, the plate would flip up.
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riichy
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PostPosted: 11:45 - 25 Oct 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
i have seen one of these its like a little braket that works like your brake. you hit the switch and it pulls on the wire and flips the plate......i would get one if i new where the sold them Confused Mr. Green
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