License plate blocker!?

Hey guys,

I know im going to get stuff from just about everyone on this website but im hoping that there is at least 1 person here a little crazier than I am. This is my thought. I want to have somthing to go over my plate at the push of a button or somthing to that effect. I am aware that it is highly illegal to do that but if im riding through bumper to bumper traffic and dont want to get caught, i want to be able to have this option. Has anyone thought of this? I looked online and found alot of photo blockers but i dont want that. I want a full proof shield that blocks all light (such as a metal shield). My thoughts are to glue magnets on the back of the plate, apply hinges some how and have a flip down door or somthing and it will fasten when hitting the magnets. Also was thinking of an instant black out button. If a cover can become jet black in an instant so that nothing can be seen through it. I cant think of how to complete these ideas or how to rig it. If anyone has any crazy ideas please fill me in. and i know most of you are thinking if you wanna do stuff like that, why not just take off the plate? This is because i dont want to get pulled over for no plate, only to have the plate blocked when needed.

Ya know....I've had the need once or twice in all my years of riding to obscure my bikes plate. It's amazing what a little mud and dirt will do and not only was the price right, it didn't appear that I intentionally tried to break the law.
Course, you didn't hear that from me.
BTW. It's really unhealthy scootin twix slow cars. Theres a reason it's against the law. It could get you dead.

BTW. It's really unhealthy scootin twix slow cars. Theres a reason it's against the law. It could get you dead.

It's legal in California and a lot of Europe. In South Africa, they zip between cars at lights and go to the head of the line, and it's culturally acceptable. Of course they also pull to the right and let faster drivers pass, so what does that say about the US?

one step further in Seoul - not only do I thread to the front at stoplights, if it's really backed up I ride (legally) on the sidewalk. Don't have to cover my plate because my Derbi GPR50 is only 50cc and doesn't need a registration tags or anything. I actually now dread driving my car to work (when it rains) because on a bike, I'm immune to traffic jams.

It's legal in California and a lot of Europe. In South Africa, they zip between cars at lights and go to the head of the line, and it's culturally acceptable. Of course they also pull to the right and let faster drivers pass, so what does that say about the US?

It should be legal here too. It is actually safer in the places where it is used, if you look at the specs. Italian drivers in the North near Milon are very professional and courteous. Here we have the most up tight people in a hurry, not to mention the old ,slow drivers 90 plus on the road. We suck bigtime. Does anyone else have roadrage in their countries?

What you guys don't seem to consider when you sight other countries is that unlike in America, MC on public roads are usually very small 50cc - 90cc for the most part. Riders are not casual hobbiest occassional commuters, they use these little bikes or scooters for commuting every day and for business.

In many places the MC/Scooters far out number Autos. In those environments perhaps lane splitting make sense and is effective. But in the USA with larger MC and MC being seriously out numbered, and with our automobile congestion it does not work as well as overseas.

Most places overseas don't have major high speed well engineered roads or highways nor drive at the speed we are accustomed to.

Make sure you are comparing Apples to Apples, not oranges to apples before you make a case for American style lane splitting.

Ask your self this question. If you were in the Grocery Store in a check out line with a basket full of things, and some guy with fewer items jumped in front of you informing he was in a hurry and so was cutting in front of you. Did not ask you, just bypassed you and got in front of you. What would tell him or do?

Personally, I would tell him if he was in that much of a hurry, he should have been there earlier and been in line before I got in line, I would then assist him, one way or another, to the back of the line! Letting him know that his importance, his impatients, his need to get someplace is no greater than mine.

Your full basket is your car, the guy with fewer items is the MCist, And he is violating American principles FIFO, and all classes are equal no favortism allowed. And escorting him to the end of the line is roadrage. If you want to be in front of the line... get there earlier.


Ride safe and long,
Colorado Fats

Hey guys,

I know im going to get stuff from just about everyone on this website but im hoping that there is at least 1 person here a little crazier than I am. This is my thought. I want to have somthing to go over my plate at the push of a button or somthing to that effect. I am aware that it is highly illegal to do that but if im riding through bumper to bumper traffic and dont want to get caught, i want to be able to have this option. Has anyone thought of this? I looked online and found alot of photo blockers but i dont want that. I want a full proof shield that blocks all light (such as a metal shield). My thoughts are to glue magnets on the back of the plate, apply hinges some how and have a flip down door or somthing and it will fasten when hitting the magnets. Also was thinking of an instant black out button. If a cover can become jet black in an instant so that nothing can be seen through it. I cant think of how to complete these ideas or how to rig it. If anyone has any crazy ideas please fill me in. and i know most of you are thinking if you wanna do stuff like that, why not just take off the plate? This is because i dont want to get pulled over for no plate, only to have the plate blocked when needed.

Doing what you are planning is not only illegal, stupid, but hurtful. It gives the non MC public a really nagetive image of us all! If you don't care about the rest of us MCist and the problems you cause us PLEASE GET OUT OF RIDING A MC!

If saw you, your only worry would be how soon the cops could pull me off you! You'd be damn glad to see a cop, paramedic, ambulance at that point!

It is guys like you that need to be purged from our ranks! License suspended, run off the road.

Colorado Fats

Ya know....I've had the need once or twice in all my years of riding to obscure my bikes plate. It's amazing what a little mud and dirt will do and not only was the price right, it didn't appear that I intentionally tried to break the law.
Course, you didn't hear that from me.
BTW. It's really unhealthy scootin twix slow cars. Theres a reason it's against the law. It could get you dead.

Nuff said!

Ride safe & long,
Colorado Fats

So you basically want to know how to block your plates because you can't patiently travel in bumper to bumper traffic like everybody else and don't want anyone to be able to read your tags as you cut in and out in front of them?

I'd have to agree with COFats here. Your post and your obvious behaivor on the road just tarnishes all of our reputations. Well, technically not my reputation yet, but soon to be. :D Seriously man, you just need to relax and enjoy riding your motorcycle, stop cutting through traffic and covering your plates from the "safe drivers" who are trying to report you because your endangering yourself and everyone else on the road.

Hope you get smart before you get dead.