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Can anyone tell me whether or not it is a legal requirement for motorbikes to be fitted with a number plate light? My current Yamaha YZF-R6 is fitted with a number plate light, but I was wondering whether or not it was by law that it had to be fitted.
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Can anyone tell me whether or not it is a legal requirement for motorbikes to be fitted with a number plate light?
Yes, according to: Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 1796
The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989
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However, a plod acquaintace informs me that motorcycle number plates are not actually covered by the same requirements as to lettering, layout etc. as applies to cars.
Any "in the know" comments?
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There is a smaller font and different spacing specification for bike plates, but the font style is the same and the materials used are the same as for other vehicles. DVD posted a link on this a while back so I will see if I can find it.
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BrianW
R.Veh's (Display of Reg marks) Regs 2001:
14. - (1) Except in the cases mentioned in paragraphs (2) and (3), each character in a registration mark must be 79 millimetres high.
(2) In the case of a registration mark displayed on a vehicle first registered before 1st September 2001, a character in a registration mark may be 89 millimetres high unless -
(a) the vehicle was first registered on or after 1st January 1973 and the mark is displayed on a new registration plate fixed to the vehicle to replace a plate previously fixed thereto, or
(b) the vehicle is a motor cycle, motor tricycle, quadricycle, agricultural machine, works truck or road roller.
(3) In the case of a registration mark fixed on a motor cycle, motor tricycle, quadricycle, agricultural machine, works truck or road roller, each character of the mark may be 64 millimetres high.
DVD
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And he goes and beats me to it.
The link so helpfully posted by DVD in September was
www.tinyurl.com/m7v5
But as he's just posted all the useful bits, I'll just get back in my box. :o(
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ps. Don't make the mistake I made initially and search for posts containing the word "Regulation" written by DVD. You will get 58 returns!
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I guess the R6 has red LED rear stop/tail lamps?? If so then thats why it needs a numberplate lamp. Earlier ones had white filament stoptail lamps that illuminated the plate through a clear plastic bit of the tail light.
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apologies for moving slightly off thread - can a bike be clocked by a speed camera. With no VRN on the front how is the offender traced? Apologies - located in Ireland - not many cameras here - Yet.....
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coz it's taken from the rear!
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