Number plate flippy thing

**Robbo** · 18th December 2006, 15:32

Originally Posted by COP_B8

By mounting the number plate on a hinge you can then run a bonnet release catch through your bike and this will then flick the number plate out of sight when required...

Made a similar setup some years back but instead of using a cable to operate it i used a 12v solenoid attached to a scissor style arm and wired it through a switch on the dash panel. It worked a treat.

**NighthawkNZ:Me** · 18th December 2006, 15:46

Originally Posted by placidfemme

Wasn't there a bit in the news section a while ago that mentioned an american biker that did a runner and blabbed about it online and a cop happened to be viewing the forum and caught hi out that way...

Americans don't count... they are just well...well have you seen most of the crap they put on TV? DUMB

**zeRax** · 18th December 2006, 17:36

same as what ill do when i get a worthy bike

**DMNTD:Me** · 18th December 2006, 17:48

Have got mine hinged but have yet to attach a system to move it mechanically...currently manual but works well when required

**Mrs Busa Pete** · 18th December 2006, 18:14

Originally Posted by maha man

Those thing are widely used in certain parts of Aotearoa.....(NZ).....

You obviously dont need one then do you maha

**T.W.R** · 18th December 2006, 18:34

looks like a good wee battle going on for the bike

But ha used to have a sprung plate on a couple of bikes I had when I was younger

just simple hinge brackets with a solid shaft & heavy coil spring rigged up to an old broken clutch cable & release lever

Used it a few times successfully but in a different era, when your in your late teens & early 20s lifes short play hard attitude numbs the brain, then you realise you might be able to out run vehicles but you can't out run a radio wave and apart from risking your own life you putting plenty of others at risk too

Hero hinges on plates only show one thing "dumbass trouble waiting to happen"

**ajturbo** · 18th December 2006, 18:37

Originally Posted by busa pete

You obviously dont need one then do you maha

ummm if you are on here soooo much.. why not get ya own handle? and stop hijacking you poor man's one??
something like... umm i don't know... "randybitch"..?

**Maha** · 18th December 2006, 19:58

Originally Posted by busa pete

You obviously dont need one then do you maha

Not now i dont......used to have one but the wind drag slowed me down somewhat so it had to go.........

**Mrs Busa Pete** · 18th December 2006, 20:02

Originally Posted by maha man

Not now i dont......used to have one but the wind drag slowed me down somewhat so it had to go.........

I thought that was mrs maha

**DMNTD:Me** · 18th December 2006, 20:04

Originally Posted by T.W.R

Hero hinges on plates only show one thing "dumbass trouble waiting to happen"

...or that someone may be sick of speed camera tickets for 117kmph on a dead straight road...
Sure if one was to speed in a residential area with one's plate flipped up your comment would be spot on

**jeremysprite** · 18th December 2006, 20:10

I don't think it would be too hard to get a friendly bike mechanic to hook up an electric motor to the plate, and fiddle with a speed limiter, so that once the bike reaches a certain threshold, say, 125km/h, the plate flips up.

**Toaster** · 18th December 2006, 20:18

Originally Posted by Jeff Sichoe

What happened to just smearing some mud on the plate? Then you can just make some crap up about how you didn't see it was obscured, sorry officer...

Gee, the cow shat on me plate sir......

**Toaster** · 18th December 2006, 20:21

I heard of a guy getting arrested for doing the plate thing.... nice to add a criminal record to your traffic fines just to top the year off and bugger ya job.

**rok-the-boat** · 18th December 2006, 20:27

In Korea some people put some kinda perspex in front of the plate, not quite at the same angle. If you look straight at it you can see it but at an angle and especially with a camera flash, you can't. Police had a crack down ...

Another thing I saw, after that phase, was that many truck drivers put CDs on the front of their trucks to reflect radar. Dunno if it works but many, many trucks had several CDs on their fronts. Korea is quite sunny - maybe the bright sun shine + flash reflection screws with the camera image?

Maybe I should delete this post ....

**T.W.R** · 18th December 2006, 20:27

Originally Posted by DMNTD

...or that someone may be sick of speed camera tickets for 117kmph on a dead straight road...
Sure if one was to speed in a residential area with one's plate flipped up your comment would be spot on

When I was running them on my bikes 17+ years ago speed cameras weren't even thought of here, there were 2 red light cameras operating in ChCh and that was it.
A having been involved in both Urban & Rural pursuits that ended in road blocks with multiple police vehicles, I'll tell you one thing " it doesn't matter a rats ass were or when you use a hinged plate, if the shit hits the fan flipping a plate wont help, it's just going to bury in futher into the shit!"

Originally Posted by jeremysprite

I don't think it would be too hard to get a friendly bike mechanic to hook up an electric motor to the plate, and fiddle with a speed limiter, so that once the bike reaches a certain threshold, say, 125km/h, the plate flips up.

what do you think happens to a lot of old electric car aerials