you really couldnt make it up.

Got a IOM plate like Lozzos sorted, should be here this week, guess what my
bike just failed the MOT on, the fucking plate.

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Nige,

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Yamaha R1
Range Rover Vogue

 

Not having any experience with the MOT, do they just make up rules on
the fly, or should you have known in advance?

 

he should have known. Andy was warned last year that he wouldn't get a
pass with the plate he has on. then again..I don't suppose Nige takes
a bike for MOT often.
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Have you re registered it or just got an IOM plate with your reg?

 

Bloke before me got binned for a dodgy plate, same as the bloke after.

It needs to have a border round it now, and a UK type logo.

Mines the right size etc, but ffs.

 

Just the cheapo way

 

The logo is part of the MOT? **** that for a game of soldiers.

 

It's been part of the legal requirement for making a legal plate since
2001. The only difference is that they now check the plate's legal on the
ticket. If the plate is pre-01 issued, no prob, because it could have
been legal at the time it was made. If it's a post-01 issued plate, then
somebody had a hooky plate made up at some time...

 

It's bollocks.

 

My friendly tester just says "You didn't have that on when you had it tested
right"!

I say "You ain't seen me, right"?

 

No it hasn't, having the GB blue rectangle in the bottom left corner of
a bike plate is an option, but if it is then it must comply to certain
requirements. You can still legally make and supply a single purpose
plate[1] for a new vehicle, we do it every time we register a new bike
at work.

[1] Dual purpose plates have the GB or other international symbol
incorporated into the plate at manufacture, single purpose plates don't.

 

Mine told me to take a legal one with me next time I go but not to
worry about fitting it.

 

I don't get this, why does it need a border around the plate?

Kev

 

Kevin Gleeson <> banged this out on the
bongos:

Because *they* say so.

 

Kevin Gleeson wrote:

After speaking to the sweary one, it turns out he has no yellow border
around the letters and digits, the plate has been cut down and they sit
at the edge of the plate. The tester is wrong about the international
flag/symbol though.

 

I was mis-reading slightly - wasn't there some mention of a postcode
missing?

The plate regs haven't changed on near-on a decade, anyway.

 

Nige's bike was registered pre-2001 so there is no need for a BS mark
on the plate or the makers postcode. They didn't introduce the law to
be applied retrospectively. If his tester is saying it needs one then
he is wrong. I've argued things like this with esters in the past,
which is why I now use two MOT stations that have a clue and don't have
these hassles any more.

 

The border is background colour (yellow), to make it more legible at a
distance.

 

Sadly the place that did my MOTs seems to have shut over the winter.

Barton Motors in bath is seemingly not operating anymore. A crying
shame; the first bike shop I went into (at the age of about 13 or 14).
Am hopeful that I've missed something but the phone doesn't ring and the
premises look 'tidy' which is very worrying.

RIP.

Guess I'll have to find someone else. Probably D&H Motorcycles.

 

Sorry, still doesn't make sense to me. OK there is a yellow border
around a number plate. That doesn't make it any more legible or the
bike any more visible.

The only thing I can think of is that it may give speed cameras a
target that defines how the software can focus its processing to a
specific area. Would this be the case?

Kev