No plate light required? Oh, and exhaust plates.

I now care...

Taken from VCA type approval documentation:
"Rear registration plate lamp - on motorcycles first used from 1 April
1986 must be approved and marked to ECE Regulation 50 or 4 or to EEC
Directive 76/760; "
http://www.vca.gov.uk/downloads/files/vca005.pdf

My Guzzi is 1979 so obviously predates this bit of the C&U.

 

To reply to you and Mr Eaton -

I'm fine. Life has been incredibly busy this year, both workwise and at
home, hence I haven't been around much. I've popped in here now & again to
read through the posts, but haven't contributed.

I now have a newer Diversion - the old XJ was getting too unreliable, and
is now sitting under a cover in my back garden, waiting for me to do
something with it.

Anyhting really exciting happened in UKRM at all?

--
Stu
XJ900 Diversion & Tatty old XJ900 thing
<A couple of numbers go here>
Pull my plonker to reply.
Don't believe the hype"

 

if a copper's following you at night on an unlit road, his headlights will
illuminate your plate so

Now that made me laugh. A lot. Do you really believe that?

 

Really? What a strange sense of humour you have!

That post was generated by my Random Bullshit Bot. I was hoping it
would add a DB9 to my sig, but it came up with that crap instead.

But yes, I do believe it, kinda. I'm sure they'd notice if they were
looking for it, but it's not something that would jump out & shout
"pull me" like having a dead taillight. Like I said, my Tiger hasn't
had a white light pointing at it for years, & I've never been stopped
for it. This must be because following plod doesn't notice, or doesn't
care. Either way it's the same result.

 

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. You wouldn't be driving at night with
no lights on would you?

 

Stu yik-yakked:

Bad form re-posting and all, but just in case you missed it I asked
earlier re the tailight thing:

Aha, see that's what I thought, although a lot of posts say it isn't
required.

You're Trafpol, aren't you? Now, I'd expect therefore that your view
would be the most definitive one.

Assuming I used the light as is, and that it passed the MoT like that,
what's the likelihood of me:

1 - being pulled for an unlit plate
2 - pointing out it pased the MoT like that
3 - getting a rectifier or would it more likely be a FP of some sort

Or is it best just to lube up before I go out? ;-)

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Dave Jennings wrote:

[Rear lights]

^^^^^^^^^^

You don't know the meaning of the word.

 

Whinging Courier yik-yakked:

Arf.Well done.

 

Bear yik-yakked:

We were all twiddling our thumbs[1], watching the tumbleweed until you
two fellas came back.

[1] Euphemism for self-pleasuring,obviously [2]
[2] Although not with either of you as our impetus[3]
[3] Speaking personally, anyway

 

Whinging Courier yik-yakked:

In fact, I don't know the meaning of a *lot* of words, e.g.

shy
it's my round
I'm sorry miss, should I have pulled out and discreetly sprayed over
your tits instead of blowing a big thick wad over your face?

etc etc

I just need the finer points polished [1]

[1] And my knob, obviously

 

Bear yik-yakked:

[Note to self. Must do better.] [1]

[1] Or worse, obviously.

 

Bear yik-yakked:

In fact, reading this again..............

what's most worrying? The fact that I wasn't, or that by inference some
regulars of UKRM were? [1]

[1] Less a clique, more a wanque?

 

Err probably - The Con & Use Regs I quoted were of a very recent version, so
should be right.

For everyone else's info, it's bloody obvious when a plate is unlit, even
from some distance. If that was the only problem with your bike, I
personally couldn't give a toss.

Stu
<sig goes here, when I fix it>