Lane-Splitting offence

[Zed]

A personal favourite - no discretion for those cretins!!

I mean, do those cretins not understand that whenever they cover their plate up they are associating themselves with bankrobbers and the like!

Willfully covering your rego plate in my opinion is a serious offense. Can anyone else shed any light on why they do it so carelessly in SA?? :sneaky2: Joni?

[loosebruce]

I mean, do those cretins not understand that whenever they cover their plate up they are associating themselves with bankrobbers and the like!

Willfully covering your rego plate in my opinion is a serious offense. Can anyone else shed any light on why they do it so carelessly in SA?? :sneaky2: Joni?

Covering your plate is dodge, i had a ROCK bumper sticker over mine for a laugh, but took it off cause i didn't want the hassle, i know of guy in welly owns a 996R who rides it without a plate at all!!! Stopping isn't in his mind i believe. He's a fast rider to go with that, his ran down to the dairy car is a porsche 996 turbo, shit.
As for me i've taken to throwing my bike into a pile of mud caking the entire thing inculding the plate and "forgeting" to clean the plate, you can still read it if you stand next to it.

Good to hear you just got a warning mate.

[andy1]

In Auckland... some old guy rides a 2002 .... with no plate! and a rear SLICK tyre!!! what you think of that Zed.

He went passed me at about 290km on the way to puke for the nationals a year back. When i got to puke i saw it parked up.....

The guys like 50something

[Mongoose]

In Auckland... some old guy rides a 2002 .... with no plate! and a rear SLICK tyre!!! what you think of that Zed.

He went passed me at about 290km on the way to puke for the nationals a year back. When i got to puke i saw it parked up.....

The guys like 50something

Stupidity has no age limit

[Vagabond]

I mean, do those cretins not understand that whenever they cover their plate up they are associating themselves with bankrobbers and the like!

Willfully covering your rego plate in my opinion is a serious offense. Can anyone else shed any light on why they do it so carelessly in SA?? :sneaky2: Joni?

I'm an ex S.African and boy can the Boks play rugby
As for covering plates yea you got the odd balls who did, but are you trying to tell me that no one here has or will ever do it !
Although I must admit I have bent my number plate so as to make it difficult to read, and done my fair share of runners
Hell Iv'e met a good few bikers here that admit to doing runners, personally I won't do it over here as I do not know the roads well enough, I therefore ride with a detector.

Just to make it a little clearer the traffic cops in S.A. do tend to target bikers, the local back there used to stop me every time he ever saw me and then proceed to check everything, hell he might as well have given me a WOF test everyday And yes I eventually got pissed off and then decided it was time to do runners I must have done about 10 or 15 from him alone, and no he never ever caught me, nor did the others

[Coldkiwi]

hmm... I've often wondered why I haven't had to post this thread before! Its been a damn interesting read and I may have to book mark it given that I'm almost always lane splitting on my commute to and from work (stupid southern m'way traffic).

No substitute for spotting the cops first guys. Keep those eyes peeled for idiots and police at all times

[marty]

no problem andy1. no - i mean it, no problem

[andy1]

HuH?????? :spudwhat:

[Motoracer]

Two smoker has even chatted to that dude Andy...

[Motoracer]

P.S. If you are gunna put a tape over the Rego #, you might as well take off the whole bloody thing!

Either way, if you get snapped it's just as bad but atleast with out a plate, it looks way meaner! :cool2:

[Coldkiwi]

yeah, but at least if the rego tag is hanging over, you can possibly play stupid and say 'oh, i didn't realise it had fallen down'. claiming your plate fell off without you noticing might be a bit harder!

[MacD]

yeah, but at least if the rego tag is hanging over, you can possibly play stupid and say 'oh, i didn't realise it had fallen down'. claiming your plate fell off without you noticing might be a bit harder!

About 10 years ago somebody nicked the rego plate off my bike while it was parked at work! Although I did spot that it was missing before I rode home, if I'd walked up to the bike from the front I'd never have noticed. I rode home wondering if a cop would believe me if they pulled me over? Fortunately I didn't have to find out the answer to that question!

[Lou Girardin]

Of course, your WOF holder could be mounted so that it 'accidently' loosens and covers part of the plate. And even if some tuber does take exception to it, I'm sure that the infringemnet bureau or the courts would see such nit-picking for what it is.

[scumdog]

Of course, your WOF holder could be mounted so that it 'accidently' loosens and covers part of the plate. And even if some tuber does take exception to it, I'm sure that the infringemnet bureau or the courts would see such nit-picking for what it is.

'Course it still means that from time to time you'll get pulled over and the obscured number plate "discussed", on the other hand if you plate was not covered AND you rode reasonably there is less likelyhood of "interuptions" to your ride, - just my 2 cents worth

[Coldkiwi]

quite right scumdog. But I think lane splitting is reasonable where I can tell that some car drivers don't agree by the way they try to crush me as I go past!! and if an HP monkey has had a bad day cause he can't reach his quota, who knows WHAT he might think is reasonable riding!