That's the question, what's your answer?

Supplementary to this:
Would you want the plate(s) lit at night? How does one do this (creative
use of EL-wire, perhaps)?
Should all age-groups be licensed?

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Martin @ Strawberry Hill

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That's the question, what's your answer?

Supplementary to this:
Would you want the plate(s) lit at night? How does one do this (creative
use of EL-wire, perhaps)?
Should all age-groups be licensed?

Also, how would you stop plates rattling off? Mudguards are hassle enough...

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Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

Usenet ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

That's the question, what's your answer?

Ask the Dutch. They seem to manage.

Supplementary to this:
Would you want the plate(s) lit at night? How does one do this (creative
use of EL-wire, perhaps)?

Perhaps a small white section on one side of the rear light?

Should all age-groups be licensed?

Why not?

Helen Deborah Vecht ) gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

Also, how would you stop plates rattling off?

Pop-rivets? Nuts'n'bolts? Regular maintenance?

I have to mount a motorbike style plate on one of my bicycles, just because
it happens to have a hairdryer 50cc 0.7bhp engine sellotaped to the top of
the front wheel.

On 18 Oct 2004 21:00:18 GMT, Adrian
wrote in :
Usenet ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

That's the question, what's your answer?

Ask the Dutch. They seem to manage.

...and the Swiss.

Supplementary to this:
Would you want the plate(s) lit at night? How does one do this (creative
use of EL-wire, perhaps)?

Perhaps a small white section on one side of the rear light?

Should all age-groups be licensed?

Why not?


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Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Room 40-1-B12, CERN

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Usenet wrote:

That's the question, what's your answer?

Fighting the urge to tell you where to stick it ...



tom

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Transform your language.

Usenet wrote in message ...
That's the question, what's your answer?

Supplementary to this:
Would you want the plate(s) lit at night? How does one do this (creative
use of EL-wire, perhaps)?
Should all age-groups be licensed?

Bikes should not be licensed. Period. Why?

A)
They're not motor vehicles and cause no pollution or road damage. And if you
license bikes whats next , foot scooters, roller skates?

B)
How the hell would you enforce it? Would the police give chase in a panda car
only for the bike to disappear into a park or alley, or would they chase on
foot and watch the bike disappear into the distance with the rider giving them
the finger?

C)
What about kids riding bikes? Would pre-teens have to be licensed or would
they just be banned altogether because they're too young?

D)
If bikes are licensed what do the riders get from it? Nothing probably, so in
other words its yet another tax. This time on people who are trying to do their
bit for the enviroment. Talk about the government shooting its enviroment
policies in the foot.

B2003

Adrian wrote in message .1.4...
Helen Deborah Vecht ) gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

Also, how would you stop plates rattling off?

Pop-rivets? Nuts'n'bolts? Regular maintenance?

I have to mount a motorbike style plate on one of my bicycles, just because
it happens to have a hairdryer 50cc 0.7bhp engine sellotaped to the top of
the front wheel.

Why bother. Cover it with a bag when you're not using it and who will know?

B2003

On 19 Oct 2004 04:10:35 -0700, Boltar
wrote in :

D)
If bikes are licensed what do the riders get from it? Nothing probably, so in
other words its yet another tax. This time on people who are trying to do their
bit for the enviroment. Talk about the government shooting its enviroment
policies in the foot.

If it were to work as in Switzerland, third-party insurance. The
annual fee is paid to Migros, etc., for a dated sticker to place on the bike.
You also have a recorded serial number to recover the bike if stolen (they
_do_ get stolen, even in Switzerland).

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Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Room 40-1-B12, CERN
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

Usenet wrote:

That's the question, what's your answer?

Supplementary to this:
Would you want the plate(s) lit at night? How does one do this (creative
use of EL-wire, perhaps)?

That would depend on your reasons for licensing the bike. If it were to
prove legality or insurance or permission to be within a certain area,
then a sticker that is large enough to be seen by whatever appropriate
authorities would be sufficient. Perhaps suitably coloured on the seat
post?

If you wanted it to to be a 'number plate' in the same was as for
motorised vehicles, then obviously it would need to be bigger.

Should all age-groups be licensed?

That's a different question; you asked a question based on a contentious
assertion "if bikes were licensed", but this doesn't answer why any
should be licensed.

Why are you licensing them?