Bike Rack and number plate
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Bike Rack and number plate
Postby jacob_T » Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:45 pm
From what I've read, to have a bike rack on the back of your car, the number plate must be clearly visible or supplemented with a bike rack number plate (which apparently will cost me about $80).
Would it be legal to relocate your number plate, say, lower down on your vehicle or to the side a bit, so it would be more visible, with the bike rack?
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Re: Bike Rack and number plate
Postby ozzymac » Sat Sep 22, 2012 1:00 pm
Yes, it's ok to move the original number plate so it's visible.
Last time I had my rack on, I used cable ties to attach my plate to the bike rack so it was in plane view.
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Re: Bike Rack and number plate
Postby Mulger bill » Sat Sep 22, 2012 1:01 pm
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Re: Bike Rack and number plate
Postby ozzymac » Sat Sep 22, 2012 1:05 pm
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Re: Bike Rack and number plate
Postby herzog » Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:40 pm
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Re: Bike Rack and number plate
Postby jacob_T » Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:26 pm
Haha. Not at all.herzog wrote:They don't make it easy hey?
Does it have to be illuminated if you have one of those special bike rack plates?
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Re: Bike Rack and number plate
Postby queequeg » Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:42 pm
Yes, the special plate must be illuminated.jacob_T wrote:Haha. Not at all.herzog wrote:They don't make it easy hey?
Does it have to be illuminated if you have one of those special bike rack plates?
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Re: Bike Rack and number plate
Postby gcouyant » Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:54 pm
Good answers on this thread Jacob and here are a few other bits of advice.jacob_T wrote:I've done a google search and hunted around the forum, so apologies if this has already been addressed...
From what I've read, to have a bike rack on the back of your car, the number plate must be clearly visible or supplemented with a bike rack number plate (which apparently will cost me about $80).
Would it be legal to relocate your number plate, say, lower down on your vehicle or to the side a bit, so it would be more visible, with the bike rack?
Don't be tempted to use a home made plate or you face a fine for displaying a non-compliant plate in addition to the fine for obscuring the original.
I use a little Knog led bike lamp strapped to a pedal or chainring - whatever - to illuminate the licence plate at night. It's safe and effective.
The policing effort goes into a partially obscured plate and totally obscured tail lamps.
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Re: Bike Rack and number plate
Postby jacob_T » Sat Sep 22, 2012 7:00 pm
Ah yeah. I've heard of those fines for home made jobs.gcouyant wrote:Good answers on this thread Jacob and here are a few other bits of advice.jacob_T wrote:I've done a google search and hunted around the forum, so apologies if this has already been addressed...
From what I've read, to have a bike rack on the back of your car, the number plate must be clearly visible or supplemented with a bike rack number plate (which apparently will cost me about $80).
Would it be legal to relocate your number plate, say, lower down on your vehicle or to the side a bit, so it would be more visible, with the bike rack?
Don't be tempted to use a home made plate or you face a fine for displaying a non-compliant plate in addition to the fine for obscuring the original.
I use a little Knog led bike lamp strapped to a pedal or chainring - whatever - to illuminate the licence plate at night. It's safe and effective.
The policing effort goes into a partially obscured plate and totally obscured tail lamps.
I'll have to have a fiddle and see what I can come up with.
It's turning out to be more effort than it's worth. Maybe I'll just have to start riding everywhere and ditch the car.
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Re: Bike Rack and number plate
Postby im_no_pro » Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:09 am
I ended up finding a pretty easy solution to this problem. Roof racks.jacob_T wrote:Ah yeah. I've heard of those fines for home made jobs.gcouyant wrote:Good answers on this thread Jacob and here are a few other bits of advice.jacob_T wrote:I've done a google search and hunted around the forum, so apologies if this has already been addressed...
From what I've read, to have a bike rack on the back of your car, the number plate must be clearly visible or supplemented with a bike rack number plate (which apparently will cost me about $80).
Would it be legal to relocate your number plate, say, lower down on your vehicle or to the side a bit, so it would be more visible, with the bike rack?
Don't be tempted to use a home made plate or you face a fine for displaying a non-compliant plate in addition to the fine for obscuring the original.
I use a little Knog led bike lamp strapped to a pedal or chainring - whatever - to illuminate the licence plate at night. It's safe and effective.
The policing effort goes into a partially obscured plate and totally obscured tail lamps.
I'll have to have a fiddle and see what I can come up with.
It's turning out to be more effort than it's worth. Maybe I'll just have to start riding everywhere and ditch the car.
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Re: Bike Rack and number plate
Postby find_bruce » Mon Sep 24, 2012 12:35 pm
Great tip, I was about to wire up a whole light board for my bike rack, but this is much easier, as long as my tail light and indicators are still visiblegcouyant wrote:I use a little Knog led bike lamp strapped to a pedal or chainring - whatever - to illuminate the licence plate at night. It's safe and effective.
The policing effort goes into a partially obscured plate and totally obscured tail lamps.
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Re: Bike Rack and number plate
Postby jacob_T » Tue Sep 25, 2012 5:49 pm
im_no_pro wrote:
I ended up finding a pretty easy solution to this problem. Roof racks.
Yeah Roof Racks could be pretty ideal for some. But I don't have any on my car, so it'd be a fair bit of money to install both the racks, and the bike attachments.
I also have to access a multi-level carpark with a low roof fairly regularly, and I'm not sure how a bike on the roof would mix with that. Aha.
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Re: Bike Rack and number plate
Postby gcouyant » Tue Sep 25, 2012 5:57 pm
Exactly...find_bruce wrote:Great tip, I was about to wire up a whole light board for my bike rack, but this is much easier, as long as my tail light and indicators are still visible
We (and most of our customers) who travel into remote regions on rough tracks never ever use plug in aux tail lamps because they do fail and when they do invariably cause havoc with the vehicle's fuses and electrical system - especially on some of the modern vehicles with mux type wiring.
Keeping it simple means more time to relax and ride.
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Re: Bike Rack and number plate
Postby bychosis » Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:55 am
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Re: Bike Rack and number plate
Postby im_no_pro » Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:11 am
Yep, car park complexes can be a pain with roofracks (as can maccas drive-thru's). I ended up picking up a second hand set of roofracks on eBay and getting the bike holders cheap from torpedo7 so the outlay wasnt anywhere near as bad as it could have been. I dont have a towbar on my car and would have had to install a factory one as its a company leased vehicle which gets changed every 3 years so roofracks ended up being the cheaper option anyway, all I have to do is buy a new foot pack for the roof racks each time I change cars instead of install a new towbar.jacob_T wrote:im_no_pro wrote:
I ended up finding a pretty easy solution to this problem. Roof racks.
Yeah Roof Racks could be pretty ideal for some. But I don't have any on my car, so it'd be a fair bit of money to install both the racks, and the bike attachments.
I also have to access a multi-level carpark with a low roof fairly regularly, and I'm not sure how a bike on the roof would mix with that. Aha.
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