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    How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    Having the license plate mounted right here?

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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    depends on the cop. If he is having a bad day, I can say it's reason enough to pull you over since you wouldn't be able to read it.
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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    That's kinda what I figured...
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    There's nothing that will ever replace the warm feeling of a perfectly blipped 6th-to-4th downshift, that drops right lane traffic like 1st first semester chem-lab.

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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    They'll bust you cold.
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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    Ask brat


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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    Quote Originally Posted by PhL0aTeR View Post
    Ask brat

    Uh oh... LoL. Story time?
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    There's nothing that will ever replace the warm feeling of a perfectly blipped 6th-to-4th downshift, that drops right lane traffic like 1st first semester chem-lab.

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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    They'll take you down, take you down to China Town.

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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    Never got hassled
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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    Quote Originally Posted by Panda Jerk View Post
    They'll take you down, take you down to China Town.

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    There's nothing that will ever replace the warm feeling of a perfectly blipped 6th-to-4th downshift, that drops right lane traffic like 1st first semester chem-lab.

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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    $150.00 obscured plate. Easier just to cover it with one hand and roll the throttle a la Bash.
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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    I have seen people with springs or actuators on their plate, they hit a switch and it flips up... I guess thats if you run from the cops a lot.

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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    i think as long as its "lit" and you can read it clearly "directly behind", "45 degrees from the left and right". As if you were in a vehicle, behind, and in the left and right lane.

    i got a ticket for this and argued with him because mine was lit and clear from behind just not from the sides

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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    i dont think youll have any problems. i have mine that way now and had it that way on my gixxer as well
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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    Quote Originally Posted by Nick_Ninja View Post
    They'll bust you cold.
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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    They will bend you over the front of the cop car and won't use any lube.









    I don't know if they will care, I just wanted to tell someone they should watch the corn hole.
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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    Quote Originally Posted by Filo View Post
    I just wanted to tell someone they should watch the corn hole.


    I'm not sure if that's sig material or not...
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    Quote Originally Posted by ~Barn~ View Post
    There's nothing that will ever replace the warm feeling of a perfectly blipped 6th-to-4th downshift, that drops right lane traffic like 1st first semester chem-lab.

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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    I was riding with a guy a few years back. He had his plate stuffed up under the seat --- couldn't be seen. We rode for a three hundred mile day and on the return to the front range he gets nailed by the CSP in Clear Creek. The fine was mucho amount of greenbacks and they threatened to impound his bike and haul him off to jail. It opens up the door for them to ratchet up the Inquisition when they pull you over. It iddent worth the hassle.
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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    Haha - same thing happened to me yesterday.

    Coming back from Boulder on 36, apparently the officer catches me "weaving between cars." I was going around cars, yes... but weaving between them? Lane splitting? No. He spots me at McCaslin and he pulls me over at 287. I didn't even see the guy until I heard "Woop woop!" behind me. Great.

    So I pull over onto the shoulder, officer walks up, "Can you give me a good reason for all that swerving back there?"

    "Swerving? No sir... no good reason at all."

    "Hmm. You do realize that that was fucking STUPID, and you pissed off alot of people, right?"

    "Yeah... not the smartest thing I've ever done."

    "I'll need to see your license and registration."

    I hand it to him, he looks over it, and then asks me, "So where's your plate? Stuffed under the bike?"

    "Yes sir. The dealer I bought the bike from had the temporary mounted there, so I figured that was okay?"

    "Nope. We have to be able to see it, unobscured, from 50 feet away. You will have to fix that. I'll be right back."


    The officer walks back to his car and sits there for a good 5 minutes when a 2nd CSP dude pulls up behind him. "Greeeeat... I'm fucked." They talk for another 5 minutes, and then the officer comes back with his clipboard. "Fuck... I'm screwed now."

    He hands the license and registration paper back to me and says, "Here's what I can cite you for: Speeding. Reckless driving. Exhibition of power. Illegal lane change. Swerving. But... I'm in a good mood. I'm off in an hour. So here's what I'm going to do. This is a warning - you cannot be driving that bike with the plate stuffed under there. Too many motorcyclists are doing that shit where we can't see the plate and then they run when the lights come on. I appreciate you pulling over, being polite, and making this easy. I'm writing you a warning for the plate, it's $18. Just mail it in and be done with it. But if I see this shit again, I WILL impound you bike. Got it?"

    I take the ticket and sign it. "I didn't know. Yes sir, thank you."

    "Have a good day. Ride safely."




    Looks like the plate is going somewhere else. LoL.
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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    Awww...that was a happy ending. Sort of, kind of, mostly!
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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    I am one happy son-bitch that he didn't write me a moving violation. My insurance is bad enough...
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    Re: How likely am I to get in trouble for this?

    Quote Originally Posted by Aracheon View Post
    I am one happy son-bitch that he didn't write me a moving violation. My insurance is bad enough...
    That's one of the few possitive encounters I've heard of this season.

    Hope you fixed the plate, cause after a break like that he will bury you under the jail if he sees you again.


    BTW,
    The sideway plate mount that the customs like to use are illegal in CO too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sortarican View Post
    That's one of the few possitive encounters I've heard of this season.

    Hope you fixed the plate, cause after a break like that he will bury you under the jail if he sees you again.


    BTW,
    The sideway plate mount that the customs like to use are illegal in CO too.


    I'm going to figure out some kind of bracket for it tonight before I ride out to IMI tomorrow.

    And yes, I've already had my experience with the vertical mounts. I managed to catch the corner of mine in a lean and it damn near flipped me off the bike. No more of that shit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ~Barn~ View Post
    There's nothing that will ever replace the warm feeling of a perfectly blipped 6th-to-4th downshift, that drops right lane traffic like 1st first semester chem-lab.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bueller View Post
    Never got hassled
    i got hassled when I had my plate like that on my SV. 3 times. No tickets, tho.

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