Private/Personal Plates?

Right...
Seen a numberplate that I like for my baby at a very good price - BUT I still can't decide if I like the whole idea of a private plate!?
Just thought I'd see what the general concensus was!

I'm with option number 4. There is just something about private numbers plates I don't like. And I'm sorry to say but if I see a car or whatever in front of me with a private plate I do kind of mutter "muppet". No offence to anyone though, I can't help it.

Driving to work last week i saw a 4x4 of some description, with the plate BON3R, (BONER), larfed my **** off


Regards

Akula

[Luckypants]

I went with option 3, some of them are a right load of tosh - others are nice. For instance I was offered A 750 VFR for my old bike, but they wanted over £2k for that - it was cool, but not that cool.

Hmmm... wasn't sure what to post there. I have one on my car However, I don't want one on my bike. They are too easily identified. Some a55hole might remember my personal plate and decide he didn't like the way I ride and push the bike over

Just me being paranoid, but bikes are easier messed with

i got one

but its not personnal for me

its personnal to the bike and will get sold with the bike when she goes

Well I always thought all of the above. Some are cool because they are funny, some are cool because they are unique to a vehicle. Most are rubbish because of substituted letters / numbers or just simply because they are plain boring. It needs to be something that has some meaning - if its just something you know then what's the point?

Small story though ... I got one of the first dozen 99 SV's here in New Zealand. I managed to track down and snag SV650 which is and has always been my plate. So naturally I always thought that was pretty cool. After having the old girl off the road a few months I went to register the bike for a new 12 months of road use, and found the girl over the counter looking blankly at me saying um Im sorry sir you dont appear to be the registered owner... Well Um that's certainly news to me etc etc. Long story and much messing about later... Mr X had just bought second hand 99 SV up the country with a license plate number SV65O (O for orange not zero as in mine) In the change of ownership to him somehow the powers that be managed to read his form as my plate - and though it wasnt legally finalised as I hadnt done my half of this "ghost transfer", it had moved the plate number into his name - and left me unable to re-register my own bike! All sorted now but there is a little kind of problem to consider that I'm sure people never think of

[Viney]

Mine is personal to me, so will have to transfer and all that if i sell the bike. I was lucky to have it brought for me last year as a crimbo present, by my now ex girlfriend. However, on a std plate, it looks pants, as my name is Ian so a 1 is used etc etc. On my illegal 9x3 plate, it looks cool IMHO.

So do look silly though, and the ones where they put screw covers, make the numbers slightly different shapes etc, are much the same.

Originally Posted by Vinyl

So do look silly though, and the ones where they put screw covers, make the numbers slightly different shapes etc, are much the same.

I'm with you on that one. Not for for aesthetic reasons but for practical ones. It would be less easy to look-out for if stolen, etc. What if you were knocked off your bike in a hit-and-run and witnesses could only recognise the doctored plate?

I also think it looks sad

I have a private plate on my car D1 TTB, my wifes name and my initials. Its personal to me. Wouldn't have one on the bike as don't like to drawn more attention to the bike than is necessary

Tim