Number plate sizes?

2shea

7.4" x 6" or 7" x 5"?

Which looks best?

GBX

2shea wrote: »

7.4" x 6" or 7" x 5"?

Which looks best?

Depends on the bike and tailpiece - some prefer it smaller but if its surrounded by a lot of black, might look out of place.

bladespin

Had a 6x1 on my old bike, always liked the way it looked.

Hotblack Desiato

170x110mm is legal on a bike so why go any bigger?

2shea

2shea wrote: »

7.4" x 6" or 7" x 5"?

Which looks best?

Neither, 7.5 X 2 :cool:

kokiyou

Anyone recommended places to buy online? Can't seem to find a place that does them locally.

GBX

I just got a reg plate delivered from printpoint the other day. 2-3 day delivery. €18 inc delivery I thought I was ordering perspex. It's actually metal. Will have to drill 2 holes for alignment. Anybody use 3m tape on their reg plates anymore?

IrishGrimReaper

https://printpoint.ie/printpoint/irish-motorbike-plates

You can add custom graphics etc if you want as well. They are very good quality I've bought two off them.

sonofenoch

kokiyou wrote: »

Anyone recommended places to buy online? Can't seem to find a place that does them locally.

https://www.irishnumberplates.ie

Lots of customization and you can see what the plate looks like as you fill it out

UrbanFret

sonofenoch wrote: »

https://www.irishnumberplates.ie

Lots of customization and you can see what the plate looks like as you fill it out

+1 for this company.

MojoMaker

Good crowd alight.

Also www.signsandsystems.ie and www.eireplates.com

SycoLTH

Hi,
Most of these websites sell 230mm x 75mm, is that legal? I can't find any reference to it on revenue.ie

Thanks

sonofenoch

SycoLTH wrote: »

Hi,
Most of these websites sell 230mm x 75mm, is that legal? I can't find any reference to it on revenue.ie

Thanks

I would say no but you see them about......bought an R6 two bikes ago that had one on when I bought .....got stopped too many times over it, always only a warning no fines but I figured it was only a matter of time and took it off

178mm x 127 is a good size for the bike, quite a bit smaller than a standard plate but not too small to get unwanted attention

Hotblack Desiato

sonofenoch wrote: »

178mm x 127 is a good size for the bike, quite a bit smaller than a standard plate but not too small to get unwanted attention

That's larger than the minimum legal size for a bike - half the width and half the height of a car plate is legal on a bike. This applies to both the 'rectangle' and 'square' plates

CJhaughey

170x110 is legal size on a bike for a square plate and 260x55 for the rectangle.

SycoLTH

I know I'm being a pain in the as*, but I want to see the hard proof, something with letters and numbers I can print and bring with me when I get stopped.

revenue.ie, says:

The format, dimensions and technical specifications of registration plates to be displayed on motor vehicles are detailed in S.I No. 318 of 1992 (as amended).

S.I No. 318 of 1992 (sorry I can't post links as I'm a new user), says:

18. In the case of an identification mark exhibited on a bicycle, an invalid carriage or a pedestrian-controlled vehicle:—

( a ) any of the dimensions prescribed in paragraph 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 or 17 of this Schedule may be reduced to an amount which is not less than half of the amount so prescribed, and

So, does a motorcycle fall into this categories?
This would mean minimum legal size is, in fact, 260x55.
But nobody sells that size, they all sell 230x75, that is 30mm shorter than legal size.

Sorry.. not..

aido43

Have to say I could never figure out Govt regulations on sizes--its not easy to see where Motorcycles are specified as Sycolth has pointed out. For what its worth most motor factors will make up a plate there and then -I used Rathgar Motor Factors.

GBX

Unless its of micro size or the size of a newspaper, its unlikely to be an issue with the Garda.

Hotblack Desiato

SycoLTH wrote: »

So, does a motorcycle fall into this categories?

A motorcycle is the only "bicycle" required to carry a number plate, so yes.

aido43 wrote: »

Have to say I could never figure out Govt regulations on sizes--its not easy to see where Motorcycles are specified as Sycolth has pointed out.

You should be glad that motorcycles are an afterthought as far as legislators are concerned in this country. Given the political and public antipathy towards us, there are many many ways they could be making our lives more difficult.

Wilmol

sonofenoch wrote: »

I would say no but you see them about......bought an R6 two bikes ago that had one on when I bought .....got stopped too many times over it, always only a warning no fines but I figured it was only a matter of time and took it off

178mm x 127 is a good size for the bike, quite a bit smaller than a standard plate but not too small to get unwanted attention

Never heard of anyone being stopped ever over number plates. You must be the unluckiest man alive.

sonofenoch

Wilmol wrote: »

Never heard of anyone being stopped ever over number plates. You must be the unluckiest man alive.

Not specifically stopped for the plate, was more road tax checks.....remember at the time I kept running into the fking checkpoints so yeah probably very unlucky ......bike cop did once pull up beside me at a set of lights and say that plate is too small :rolleyes:

galwaytt

Wilmol wrote: »

Never heard of anyone being stopped ever over number plates. You must be the unluckiest man alive.

My SO was stopped on her SV650 in Galway - not for size or legibility, but because it had a tag line at the bottom of the plate. AGS told her to change it.

So, it happens.

BaronVon

SycoLTH wrote: »

I know I'm being a pain in the as*, but I want to see the hard proof, something with letters and numbers I can print and bring with me when I get stopped.

Disregard, I misread your question.....

Section 16 (rectangle)

16. In the case of an identification mark which is exhibited on a plate in conformity with Diagram No. 1 shown in paragraph 2 of this Schedule—

( a ) the external size of the plate shall be 520 millimetres in width and 110 millimetres in height;

Section 17 (square)

17. In the case of an identification mark which is exhibited on a plate in conformity with Diagram No. 2 shown in paragraph 2 of this Schedule—

( a ) the external size of the plate shall be 340 millimetres in width and 220 millimetres in height;

BaronVon

Fun Fact:

The reason everyone is getting warnings about their registration plates, and not prosecuted, is that AGS are unable to prosecute for it. A registration plate offence requires a Fixed Charge to be issued. But there is no Fixed Charge for a registration number offence available to AGS. Therefore they can't issue a ticket or prosecute someone for it......

BaronVon

BaronVon wrote: »

Fun Fact:

The reason everyone is getting warnings about their registration plates, and not prosecuted, is that AGS are unable to prosecute for it. A registration plate offence requires a Fixed Charge to be issued. But there is no Fixed Charge for a registration number offence available to AGS. Therefore they can't issue a ticket or prosecute someone for it......

I got stopped once on my old bike by a Garda on a bike and he was like that reg is taking the pi55 , made me produce a picture of the new reg on the bike to a Garda station.

So I just sellotaped the old reg over the small one and took a picture and showed that at the station haha, you could even see the sellotape

frozenfrozen

BaronVon wrote: »

Fun Fact:

The reason everyone is getting warnings about their registration plates, and not prosecuted, is that AGS are unable to prosecute for it. A registration plate offence requires a Fixed Charge to be issued. But there is no Fixed Charge for a registration number offence available to AGS. Therefore they can't issue a ticket or prosecute someone for it......

is that the same for cars?

BaronVon

frozenfrozen wrote: »

is that the same for cars?

Yep. It should be an easy enough thing to fix for them, but it's been years, and they still haven't done it.....

Hotblack Desiato

BaronVon wrote: »

Disregard, I misread your question.....

Section 16 (rectangle)


Section 17 (square)

You forgot Section 18 though :

18. In the case of an identification mark exhibited on a bicycle, an invalid carriage or a pedestrian-controlled vehicle:—

( a ) any of the dimensions prescribed in paragraph 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 or 17 of this Schedule may be reduced to an amount which is not less than half of the amount so prescribed, and

( b ) the plate need not be rectangular provided that the letters and figures thereon comply as nearly as possible with the arrangement shown in Diagram No. 1 or Diagram No. 2 in paragraph 2 of this Schedule or as described in paragraph 19 of this Schedule, as the case may be.

BaronVon

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

You forgot Section 18 though :

18. In the case of an identification mark exhibited on a bicycle, an invalid carriage or a pedestrian-controlled vehicle:—

( a ) any of the dimensions prescribed in paragraph 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 or 17 of this Schedule may be reduced to an amount which is not less than half of the amount so prescribed, and

( b ) the plate need not be rectangular provided that the letters and figures thereon comply as nearly as possible with the arrangement shown in Diagram No. 1 or Diagram No. 2 in paragraph 2 of this Schedule or as described in paragraph 19 of this Schedule, as the case may be.

Yeah, I misread his question. I measured my own plate, it's 150mm x 190mm, and I think it was the biggest I could get at the time.....

Wonda-Boy

Trick is to have a proper reg plate with a lovely positioned tax disc, obscuring just the merest suggestion of a digit or letter.....so small plates are not needed.

I always grind the disc onto the plate a few times to make a semi circle mark, so when stopped (only twice in like 10yrs) I say it comes loose through vibrations and you can seed the mark on the plate where I tighten it and it slides down lol.

TheQ_Man

I’ve 7” x 7” on two of mine.

Have show sized plates on the others.