Lost my plate on my way to work

[WordTooYoMamma]

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I am sure there are a dozen threads on this already but I am at work and can only wap it. So anyway I get to work and one of the construction guys asks me where I hide my plate on my bike. Long story short I have never hid my plate on my bike, its just not there. I am stuck in lowell awaiting my route 3 leo infested ride home. Any tips?

[Kenn157]

Cut out some cardboard make a plate then go to the registry.

[Sheppo]

Cut out some cardboard make a plate then go to the registry.

+1 or go straight to the registry. YOU Do have the reg, right??????? see what happenes when yuo kids try and hide your plate from Johnny Law....

[Qfactor]

^ +1

have your registration handy

Q

[SteveM]

Don't take the time to put on a cardboard plate.

Ride home at double the posted limit and wheelie as often as you can. If you're at a stop light, keep it at the rev limiter unless you feel like smoking the rear tire instead.

If an office lights you up to pull over, run. If you get caught, immediately tell the officer that you know you were pulled over because he has a hard-on for sportbike riders.

Proceed to let the officer know that you know your rights and fully intend to take this miscarriage of justice all the way to the supreme court.

Making a few unexpected reaches into your backpack or tank bag might help as well.

Basically, do not backdown from the man until you are either handcuffed face down on the side of the road or tasered into a quivering lump of your own urine and feces.

That'll show the man who's boss.

Seriously, a cardboard plate, a current registration a sane riding speed and a polite demeanor if pulled over should be all you need. If you can show him that the mounting bracket is stock or close to it and that it is obvious that the bike is set up to carry the plate in the proper position, you should be fine.

I walked out of Riverside one afternoon and noticed my plate missing a few years ago. Since I knew that it was there that morning and the bike was properly registered and insured, I didn't give the ride home a second thought.

Stuff happens and the officer would have to be a complete douche to bust your balls about this.

[noxin]

You may also want to call the local police in the current city you are in and report it missing. Get a journal entry number from the dispatcher, or at least the officer's name and badge number as proof that you reported it.

[WordTooYoMamma]

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noxin calling attention to myself by calling the pd would be foolish, so far stevem has given the best advice...or is it the other way around... I made a temp plate outa some sort of thin white plywood, and plan to go to the rmv after work.

[Cheese]

calling attention to myself by calling the pd would be foolish

Not if your plate was stolen or picked up and used for the day. You don't want to be responsible for whatever that plate is reported doing while you're not in possession of it.

[WordTooYoMamma]

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cheesy that was sarcasm, as in id rather be doing double the speedlimit doing wheelies then reporting my plate stolen.

[kb1]

Not if your plate was stolen or picked up and used for the day. You don't want to be responsible for whatever that plate is reported doing while you're not in possession of it.

You want to report that plate missing as soon as possible before some guy runs at 160 and the troopers get your plate number and show up at your door tonight.

Then it looks like an excuse "ahh I lost my plate" as opposed to saying, "hey I reported this earlier already.."

[ssg]

Do you have some videotape proving you attached it ever at all?

[RandyO]

serveral years ago, I had just purchased a brand new car, I still only had temporary paper plate on the back when I went on a 2 week vacation, the second day and 1500 miles and 12 states away, it rained and the paper plate disintigrated

I drove that car over 3500 miles thru several states & canadian provinces with no plate and never got stopped or questioned even once, including border crossings