Riding without licence plates? That'll be $15 sir.
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Fabulous...
I've wanted to have something like that ever since I saw some kind of "20 20" report on stolen cars. One car shop had installed a mechanism on a Ferrari that slid the license plate to the side behind the bodywork, revealing a strobe light. All this was connected to the car alarm. I'd just like to have the little dissapearing license plate trick.
I've wanted to have something like that ever since I saw some kind of "20 20" report on stolen cars. One car shop had installed a mechanism on a Ferrari that slid the license plate to the side behind the bodywork, revealing a strobe light. All this was connected to the car alarm. I'd just like to have the little dissapearing license plate trick.
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Fun with plates
Used to pull this stunt on bikes, and also cars. Slightly different method of actuation though. What we'd do is mount the plate on a piano hinge, and use a cable to flip the plate inward, up under the tailsection. If I remember correctly, the hot setup for ATVs and cycles was a choke cable with knob off an ATV, since the knob looked perfectly normal on the bars. Mind you, this is offroad, mainly through fire roads, power lines and the like. Yes, here in lovely Long Island, ATVs and dirtbikes are licensed/registered with the DMV, as well as being illegal to ride anywhere...but I digress, we sell a lot of 'em to the constabulary and civilians alike
I also know some of the more insane car nuts around here (street drag racers mainly) who would pull the same stunt. They said Johnny Law couldn't read the plate if the unpainted back was showing.
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Disclaimer: It wasn't me, honest!
Used to pull this stunt on bikes, and also cars. Slightly different method of actuation though. What we'd do is mount the plate on a piano hinge, and use a cable to flip the plate inward, up under the tailsection. If I remember correctly, the hot setup for ATVs and cycles was a choke cable with knob off an ATV, since the knob looked perfectly normal on the bars. Mind you, this is offroad, mainly through fire roads, power lines and the like. Yes, here in lovely Long Island, ATVs and dirtbikes are licensed/registered with the DMV, as well as being illegal to ride anywhere...but I digress, we sell a lot of 'em to the constabulary and civilians alike
I also know some of the more insane car nuts around here (street drag racers mainly) who would pull the same stunt. They said Johnny Law couldn't read the plate if the unpainted back was showing.
-a nominal squid-
Disclaimer: It wasn't me, honest!
Re: Riding without licence plates? That
I do have to interject one comment here... Having worked for a police department for 4 years (no, I wasn't a cop) one of things I learned while working there is that roughly 80% of the bad guys (real bad guys) that police catch, is DUE to traffic stops. They always run wants/warrants checks on people and vehicles when they stop them, and bad guys are amazingly stupid drivers. This does NOT mean that if you are pulled over that you're automatically a bad guy, but c'mon, if somebody the cops pull over KNOWS that their license has been revoked, they have no insurance, they have a $10,000 warrant out for their arrest, you'd think they'd be driving like grandmothers, but they don't. Also, having lived in a country that was MUCH more "socialized" (West Germany, before the wall fell) than the U.S., I have to say that our police are FAR more easy to live with than the barely disguised Gestapo that masquerade as Polizei over there. I'm not by any stretch of the imagination saying that cops here are angels, or perfect, or even that they're all that great, just that it CAN be far, far worse.
I do have to interject one comment here... Having worked for a police department for 4 years (no, I wasn't a cop) one of things I learned while working there is that roughly 80% of the bad guys (real bad guys) that police catch, is DUE to traffic stops. They always run wants/warrants checks on people and vehicles when they stop them, and bad guys are amazingly stupid drivers. This does NOT mean that if you are pulled over that you're automatically a bad guy, but c'mon, if somebody the cops pull over KNOWS that their license has been revoked, they have no insurance, they have a $10,000 warrant out for their arrest, you'd think they'd be driving like grandmothers, but they don't. Also, having lived in a country that was MUCH more "socialized" (West Germany, before the wall fell) than the U.S., I have to say that our police are FAR more easy to live with than the barely disguised Gestapo that masquerade as Polizei over there. I'm not by any stretch of the imagination saying that cops here are angels, or perfect, or even that they're all that great, just that it CAN be far, far worse.
Re: Riding without licence plates? That
Being a regular to your site and also a South African biker, I just have to add my comments here based on my experiences:
1. American seem to be very self centred, any discussion about bikes etc in another country invariable turns into an Amercian mouthpiece.
2. Pointing fingers about social injuctice is irrelevant here. If you want to talk - lets talk about America's 4% of world population that consumes 60% or world resources. Hows that for social injuctice.
3.We ride without plates because WE CAN!!
4.This will be my final comment on this website - judging by the content in the replies I can only conclude that I do not qualify based on my "lack of self-centeredness"
Being a regular to your site and also a South African biker, I just have to add my comments here based on my experiences:
1. American seem to be very self centred, any discussion about bikes etc in another country invariable turns into an Amercian mouthpiece.
2. Pointing fingers about social injuctice is irrelevant here. If you want to talk - lets talk about America's 4% of world population that consumes 60% or world resources. Hows that for social injuctice.
3.We ride without plates because WE CAN!!
4.This will be my final comment on this website - judging by the content in the replies I can only conclude that I do not qualify based on my "lack of self-centeredness"
You've never met G.S.P.
Georgia State Patrol........I never got a speeding ticket in 10 years of driving on English freeways. I got 4 in my 1st 5 years riding on US highways (Ga and Fla). English traffic laws and enforcement may seem draconian from an outsiders point of view but in fact they are applied with MUCH more discression than here in the USA, American cops and courts are NOTORIOUSLY strict and unforgiving ( at least in the rest of the worlds eyes). The majority of American cops (that I've met)are complete w a n k e r s with buzz cuts and have as much compassion as a flamethrower. You may as well reason with a firing squad. English police at least can be reasoned with and are more realistic about modern driving practices. Also UK cops drive SLOWER than the speed limit knowing that traffic will pass them and speed up. When was the last time you saw a US cop driving slower than the speed limit?
Georgia State Patrol........I never got a speeding ticket in 10 years of driving on English freeways. I got 4 in my 1st 5 years riding on US highways (Ga and Fla). English traffic laws and enforcement may seem draconian from an outsiders point of view but in fact they are applied with MUCH more discression than here in the USA, American cops and courts are NOTORIOUSLY strict and unforgiving ( at least in the rest of the worlds eyes). The majority of American cops (that I've met)are complete w a n k e r s with buzz cuts and have as much compassion as a flamethrower. You may as well reason with a firing squad. English police at least can be reasoned with and are more realistic about modern driving practices. Also UK cops drive SLOWER than the speed limit knowing that traffic will pass them and speed up. When was the last time you saw a US cop driving slower than the speed limit?
ARMED CITIZENS DON'T MAKE CRIME FREE COUNTRYS
do they? just ask dear old Uncle Sam whose citizenry are armed to the teeth and who are burdened with the worst crime statistics in the western (and many 3rd) world countries.
P.S. I DO own a gun, BUT I'm not under the illusion that I'm somehow immune from crime or that my little piece of the world is safer.
do they? just ask dear old Uncle Sam whose citizenry are armed to the teeth and who are burdened with the worst crime statistics in the western (and many 3rd) world countries.
P.S. I DO own a gun, BUT I'm not under the illusion that I'm somehow immune from crime or that my little piece of the world is safer.
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How self centered of you.
Of course you would think of your own opinion, how self-involved.
Of course you would think of your own opinion, how self-involved.
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You say you are a strong second amendmant advocate and yet you support Al Gore? Come on! Yopu can't have it both ways, Al would take away your guns AND your motorcycle if given time. You argue the "Haves vs. Have nots" line just like any good socialist, but still want your guns. What a hypocrite!
You say you are a strong second amendmant advocate and yet you support Al Gore? Come on! Yopu can't have it both ways, Al would take away your guns AND your motorcycle if given time. You argue the "Haves vs. Have nots" line just like any good socialist, but still want your guns. What a hypocrite!
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Please tell me that was a joke?
I agree with the guy you replied to. Why should I care about what goes on in South Africa? I care about important world news, of course, but SA bikers? not hardly.
I live in America, what goes on here for bikers is my concern.
Rob
I agree with the guy you replied to. Why should I care about what goes on in South Africa? I care about important world news, of course, but SA bikers? not hardly.
I live in America, what goes on here for bikers is my concern.
Rob
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Re: Riding without licence plates? That
Using your own writing style:
We consume 60% of the world's resources because WE CAN!!
We are a large, modern, and industrialized society. As such, we consume more goodies than anyone else. China may have over a billion people but the majority of them ride bicycles and/or live an 18th century lifestyle. Should we go back to operating farms instead of computer networks and riding animals instead of motorcycles?
Using your own writing style:
We consume 60% of the world's resources because WE CAN!!
We are a large, modern, and industrialized society. As such, we consume more goodies than anyone else. China may have over a billion people but the majority of them ride bicycles and/or live an 18th century lifestyle. Should we go back to operating farms instead of computer networks and riding animals instead of motorcycles?
Is that you Stalin?
Yeah! Lets take the money from the rich and redistribute it to all so we can all be equal. Is that you General Stalin? By the way, if you hadn't noticed communism doesn't seem to work. IMHO the have nots have decided they'd rather sit on their arses and hope some left wing pinko will introduce legislation to help poor them out. How about getting a job and making it without the gov.? Nah, they'd miss Jerry Springer then.
BTW, if you'd like, you can leave ameriKa. Freely.
Sorry for getting off point.
Yeah! Lets take the money from the rich and redistribute it to all so we can all be equal. Is that you General Stalin? By the way, if you hadn't noticed communism doesn't seem to work. IMHO the have nots have decided they'd rather sit on their arses and hope some left wing pinko will introduce legislation to help poor them out. How about getting a job and making it without the gov.? Nah, they'd miss Jerry Springer then.
BTW, if you'd like, you can leave ameriKa. Freely.
Sorry for getting off point.
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