A question about having 2 different "numberplates"

[AdeTuono]

Does this qualify as one of the most ridiculous, pointless threads so far? Got to be Top 10, surely?

[littleredrooster]

Pit Pony said:

littleredrooster said:

Pit Pony said:

On the back of the quad bike, there were 2 numberplates...

No, I think you'll find that there was one 'numberplate' and one reflective sign as allowed by the regulations which govern identification of Emergency (and other) vehicles.

Do regulations allow it to look and feel like a numberplate ?

I don’t know, but I’m sure you’re just as capable as me at using DuckDuckGo, Bing or Google to find out.

[Pica-Pica]

Cat said:

Pica-Pica said:

Quad bikes DO require a front plate. The requirement for a front number plate on a motorcycle was dropped, because they were mounted longitudinally on the front mudguard, and as such were quite lethal to pedestrians.
I had a new motorbike just after the need for them was dropped. I was stopped for speeding (during the 1970’s fuel crisis when the 70 limit was dropped to 50 to conserve fuel stocks). The policeman walked around my bike ‘where’s your front number plate?’. ‘It doesn’t need one’. ‘Well, your bike’s so dirty, I thought it must be an old one’. He was clearly trying to wind me up. I still got the points, no SACs back then.

He was definitely trying to wind you up if you got points in the 70s. They didn't exist until the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 came into force.

Cat

OK, I certainly got a fine. In fact I got two separate speeding fines back then, on my bike. The only fines ever. (2 SACs though, since).

[Hol]

martinbiz said:

pork911 said:

Nibbles_bits said:

and isn't being used as a number plate

Is it not?

What do you think? Is it being used to represent the VRM of the vehicle concerned?

No. It isn’t, as there was a separate number plate for that.

Only someone a few sandwiches short of a picnic would look at the described scenario and mumble incoherently to themselves…”I wonder which one is the DVLA registration number”.

[Pit Pony]

Hol said:

martinbiz said:

pork911 said:

Nibbles_bits said:

and isn't being used as a number plate

Is it not?

What do you think? Is it being used to represent the VRM of the vehicle concerned?

No. It isn’t, as there was a separate number plate for that.

Only someone a few sandwiches short of a picnic would look at the described scenario and mumble incoherently to themselves…”I wonder which one is the DVLA registration number”.

I incoherently mumbled to myself, "Are you allowed a second plate that is effectively a show plate on the back of a vehicle near the numberplate.?"

I knew which was which obviously.


I later incoherently mumbled to myself "So the National Trust don't mind them riding down a footpath on a quadbike. No wonder the footpaths are falling apart"

[martinbiz]

Hol said:

martinbiz said:

pork911 said:

Nibbles_bits said:

and isn't being used as a number plate

Is it not?

What do you think? Is it being used to represent the VRM of the vehicle concerned?

No. It isn’t, as there was a separate number plate for that.

It was obvious to any on here, even to the very hard of understanding that it was a rhetorical and slightly sarcastic question

[TriumphStag3.0V8]

Pit Pony said:

Hol said:

martinbiz said:

pork911 said:

Nibbles_bits said:

and isn't being used as a number plate

Is it not?

What do you think? Is it being used to represent the VRM of the vehicle concerned?

No. It isn’t, as there was a separate number plate for that.

Only someone a few sandwiches short of a picnic would look at the described scenario and mumble incoherently to themselves…”I wonder which one is the DVLA registration number”.

I incoherently mumbled to myself, "Are you allowed a second plate that is effectively a show plate on the back of a vehicle near the numberplate.?"

I knew which was which obviously.


I later incoherently mumbled to myself "So the National Trust don't mind them riding down a footpath on a quadbike. No wonder the footpaths are falling apart"

You do know that the national trust use quad bikes as well... and 4x4's in places where normal members of the public are not allowed to use them, right?