Lost: Rego Number Plate 29/9/06

[crashe]

Somewhere in my travels tonight I lost my rego number plate...:(

Once I had discovered it was gone, I retraced my steps....
so I ended up going up and down the motorway a few times from west Auckland back up to the port turnoff to Auckland Hospital....

No luck at all... not even on all the side streets that I travelled as well..

I got home and rung the police to report it missing.
But I had to get all my riding gear back on and go and fill in all the forms down at the police station.

So now I carry a little piece of paper till I go and get a new one...:(

I loved my old rego number plate as it was like a personalised one yet not...
(think of the springbok tor and the year the shit happened)

So if you ever spot it out there, please let me know as I would like it back to hang up... it is slightly munted and it has a 5mm white plastic (the size of the number plate) attached to it and it has black duct tape holding it all together.
It also has the virago number plate holder bracket with it as well.

So keep a look out for it... thanks.

[The_Dover]

yeah, i tried that excuse before too.........

[R6_kid]

its like $14 for a new plate from the AA or a rego centre. My mate lost his last week and went straight away to get it replaced.

[paturoa]

going that way this morning with the kids in the cage so will get 8 eyeballs onto it, which on-ramp?

[crashe]

From Te Atatu South on ramp to the city right up to the port turn off to head up Grafton Road to the hospital.
Cheers .

[crashe]

You planning a runner on 16 today crashe?

Hey mate it was strange riding up and down the motorway looking for it in the dark and there was a cop on the side of the road... it was like dont you dare spot me... :whistle:

Im just not sure where Im going to hang the number plate now..
It may have to hang off where I have the rego and WOF stickers (grab bar)
as I have two huge holes where it used to go.

My poor bike:(

[sunhuntin]

bugger crashe!! heres hoping it shows up!!

pity you cant get one the same made up!! i know what you mean by personalised type but not really plates. had a guy come into work on a red bike from 2006. the plate was a fluke!

[crashe]

its like $14 for a new plate from the AA or a rego centre. My mate lost his last week and went straight away to get it replaced.

$8.80 for a new plate.

Talk about paperwork that had to be done to get the new one.

I went to the Testing station where they do new plates.
Filled in a form and then they did a whole pile more.

I even had to ask about having my rego and WOF sticker updated to the new number, as she was about to send me on my way...
I thought hang on I need everything to be in order in case I ever get stopped or go throu a breath test check.
Well she did the rego sticker and said thats it all done.
I said um my WOF sticker?
Nah thats ok she reckoned..
I said and if I get stopped...
Oh when does it run out... so she checked.. November Oh ok
so more paper work and I had to sign it...

So now I have on my bike the new rego plate, new rego and WOF stickers.

The Rego plate aint under the red light as there aint no where to attach it..
the bottom of the guard is totally stuffed cos of the two huge holes after the the plate was taken off.
So I have to get that sorted out. But in the meantime I do have the rego plate attached to my bike. (electric ties/cable ties)

But at least it is on my bike and visiable.

[paturoa]

had a look this arvo, no plates anywhere.

Ended up in Mt Eden m-cycles. My 12 year old is going to try to talk Mrs P into a Griso tonight, though I don't fancy her (my?) chances.

That was cheap, how much for the replacement personalised plate?

[crashe]

had a look this arvo, no plates anywhere.

Ended up in Mt Eden m-cycles. My 12 year old is going to try to talk Mrs P into a Griso tonight, though I don't fancy her (my?) chances.

That was cheap, how much for the replacement personalised plate?

cheers for looking... much appreciated.

Personalised plates are around the $400 to $500 these days.

[paturoa]

.... it was like a personalised one yet not...


Personalised plates are around the $400 to $500 these days.

ahhh, "like" a personalised plate

[MattRSK]

I believe this is how you lost your plate! :2thumbsup

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[paturoa]

I believe this is how you lost your plate!


but crashe woulda seen it fall of riding backwards

[MattRSK]

but crashe woulda seen it fall of riding backwards

A very true, my theory is flawed. Back to the drawing board!

[crashe]

A very true, my theory is flawed. Back to the drawing board!

:rofl: :rofl:

[McJim]

Hmmmm.

If my number plate drops off I wonder how long it'll take for a KBer to let me know....I wonder what 5 letters I chose for my plate...

Day after I put the plate on got a private message from Toymachine to say "nice plate" amazed he knew it was me!

Nae luck crashe - $500 for a truly personal plate or $14-$21 for a pot luck plate.

[inlinefour]

Somewhere in my travels tonight I lost my rego number plate...:(

Once I had discovered it was gone, I retraced my steps....
so I ended up going up and down the motorway a few times from west Auckland back up to the port turnoff to Auckland Hospital....

No luck at all... not even on all the side streets that I travelled as well..

I got home and rung the police to report it missing.
But I had to get all my riding gear back on and go and fill in all the forms down at the police station.

So now I carry a little piece of paper till I go and get a new one...:(

I loved my old rego number plate as it was like a personalised one yet not...
(think of the springbok tor and the year the shit happened)

So if you ever spot it out there, please let me know as I would like it back to hang up... it is slightly munted and it has a 5mm white plastic (the size of the number plate) attached to it and it has black duct tape holding it all together.
It also has the virago number plate holder bracket with it as well.

So keep a look out for it... thanks.

Bummer about the plate, it happens and it has happened to me in the past. It was I think off the top of my head that it costed about $9-80, but along with the plate went my rego and wof. Bit of a bugger eh... :whistle:

[paturoa]

....It was I think off the top of my head ....

you should have put your plate on the back of your bike like everyone else does - lol

so you lost your head too?

[crashe]

Nae luck crashe - $500 for a truly personal plate or $14-$21 for a pot luck plate.

Replaced at $8.80

[crashe]

Bummer about the plate, it happens and it has happened to me in the past. It was I think off the top of my head that it costed about $9-80, but along with the plate went my rego and wof. Bit of a bugger eh... :whistle:

I was lucky that my rego and WOF stickers were tied on no where near the plate.

But have them all changed over to the new plate now.

[inlinefour]

you should have put your plate on the back of your bike like everyone else does - lol

so you lost your head too?

The Mrs takes good care of that :lol:

Try a rather long stretch of gravel road in the middle of nowhere, travelling at quite a reasonable velocity on an enduro bike that has just been purchased and I'm feeling better than James Brown destroying the rear tyre and not even knowing it...

[McJim]

Replaced at $8.80

Cost me $21 to have MCJIM re-made for a bike (used to have it on the car for the past 2 years) Thought that would be what they charged you.

Nice one.

[crashe]

Cost me $21 to have MCJIM re-made for a bike (used to have it on the car for the past 2 years) Thought that would be what they charged you.

Nice one.

Really, I asked about getting the same number being made and I was informed that I had to deregister the plate and get it made as a personalised number...
which would cost me between $400 to $500

So I was forced into getting a new number....:(

[McJim]

Really, I asked about getting the same number being made and I was informed that I had to deregister the plate and get it made as a personalised number...
which would cost me between $400 to $500

So I was forced into getting a new number....:(

Yep - that woulda made perfect sense and it would be a piece of pis to do in the UK - the registration number (as their called in the UK) stays with the car regardless of what happens to the plate - the plate itself can be made up on the spot by any shop (I got a plate hit by a stone in the UK and got a replacement made for ten quid in the auto shop round the corner) In UK the numbers are just stuck onto the back of a piece of clear perspex and Scotchlite colour attached to the back of that.

Ach well - you'll get attached to yer new number in no time.