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Originally Posted by shadowangel
... you need to be wearing a helmet ...(which if you are a Sikh and wearing a turban you are exempt from by the way)
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Can't help but think that perhaps lid manufacturers are missing out on a previously untapped market here ... Aria Corsair Turban for sale anyone?
Perhaps the actual market isn't that big to be fair
LOL (please see thread about the apparent lack of ethnic minority bikers).
About the plates thing ... and I haven't read every page of this thread so please forgive me if I'm repeating what someone else has already said ... but, I got talking to a guy at Chester Services a few weeks back. He turned up on a nice all black GSXR1000 with a rather small plate on. I asked him if he'd ever been pulled for that plate and he said, "Funny you should ask ... Copper said, 'personally he didn't have a problem with it, but', he said, 'let me put this scenario to you ... it's 4am, you hear a sound from your garage, but it's too late, and you just see your pride n joy whizzing off down the road. What do you do? ... You phone us, right? ... Now, there's our patrol car sat in a layby, when this black bike, fitting the description of a stolen bike, goes past (legal speed, not being an idiot, no reason to stop him). But, your plate is too small for the ANR (Automated Numberplate Recognition) to pick up a reg ... it's 4:30am ... are we gonna chase him? Nah! Now had your bike got a standard plate on ... ANR picks up reg, gets checked against reported stolen vehicles db and we get a warning on-screen within a matter of seconds that the bike is REPORTED STOLEN. Are we gonna chase it then? Bet your ass we are!' ...".
The guy wasn't given a rectification notice, he was told to now make his own "informed decision" ... which I'm assuming he chose to ignore their advice because he still had the tiny plate on it :P LOL