L plates on the motorway?

[Coyote]

When your on your learners, your restricted to 70kph. How come I see some guys with L plates on the motorway? Madcat said to me that the police ignore most L plates cause they reckon the 70 law is stupid. Is this right?

[sAsLEX]

staying at 70 on the motorway is down right dangerous and I never did, mind you my L plate had fallen off most of the time

[rodgerd]

When your on your learners, your restricted to 70kph. How come I see some guys with L plates on the motorway?

Because it's legal to do 70 on the motorway, so long as you keep left unless passing (fat chance!).

[Riff Raff]

staying at 70 on the motorway is down right dangerous and I never did, mind you my L plate had fallen off most of the time

Mine fell off too, then miraculously reappeared when it was time to do my restricted!

[Storm]

S'funny that, mine did the same. Must have been some shoddy glue

[jase]

70kph is way to slow for the motorway, either go faster or stay of the motorway till you get you restricted.

[カワサキキド]

Whats an L plate?

[Ms Piggy]

When your on your learners, your restricted to 70kph. How come I see some guys with L plates on the motorway? Madcat said to me that the police ignore most L plates cause they reckon the 70 law is stupid. Is this right?

In my experience - YES.

I've ridden on the MW and had a cop behind me as I pass a truck with my L plate flapping.

[カワサキキド]

Your bike doesn't look like a learners bike, so I wouldn't even wear the L plate.
I never did, except for the restricted test.

If you want to remove the 250 stickers I recomend using a Caramel Wheel, it peels them off really quickly without scratching the paint of leaving that stickey residue.

[marty]

i cut the 'replica' stickers off my aprilia without any heat or anything - the decals should just come off, any residue will come off with meths.

and wtf is a caramel wheel?

[marty]

and here's a little idea. pop rivet a broken corner of yellow plastic onto your plate. if you get stopped, then 'it was there when i last looked, officer....'

[avgas]

"i had an L plate but it broke off on a post, officer" as i pointed down to the yellow corner peice attached to the plate.
same post must have bend my licence plate too
by doing (less than) 70ks on the motorway arent u breaking another law that says you cant be lower than 25ks below the speed limit. Its that law they introduced to stop sunday drivers or something. Mabey it didnt go through, i dont know - i only seem to find out laws when i break em

[カワサキキド]

A what?? Caramel wheel.. isnt that a biscuit? That would leave loads o sticky stuff.. not to mention crumbs on the seat.

Seriously.. Heat gun gently waved in general direction of decal whilst carefully peeling off .. works perfectly. (dont use a hairdryer)

No sticky stuff but definitly a lot of crumbs, and theres nothing wrong with a hairdryer used carefully.

[onearmedbandit]

I don't think there is a law regarding slow speed, remember the posted speed limit is the max allowable, not the recommended speed. (ie- no law requiring you to travel at a certain minimum speed). I think you can be ticketed however for not yielding to traffic behind.

[Hitcher]

Having spoken with a couple of HPs on this matter, as long as you don't do anything to give them an excuse to stop you, they won't pull over an L-plate wearing bike on the motorway.

However, based on personal experience, take your L-plate off if you plan to do a lot of motorway or open road riding. Bikes get little respect from dickheads in cages at the best of times and the sight of an L-plate on the back of a bike seems to excite some of the more small penised ones. I have had some extraordinarily frightening experiences being followed by such arseholes and have been even more terrified by the sight of the living braindead flirting potentially fatally with Mrs H.

Take your L-plates off. But remember to put them back on when you go to sit your restricted...