plate is standard.

small number plates around our way will get you pulled.

save yourself the hassle and stick with the standard one.

fair enough, fortunately the cops round here aren't so bad, handy really as i've found something really smart, pefectly legible but definately non standard....watch this space :)

I've been meaning to post these pictures for a while now.

While out at the Adelaide Farm Cafe bike meeting near Sandwich there was a Tenere there that had a very tidy looking cleanup of the rear end.

The indicators had been moved up and were connceted through the bolt holes on the side of the 'rack' the terene has. The real light indicator was moved to the underside of the rack pointing down and the number plate was moved up and the excess plastic chopped off.

Pics arn't great as it was dark and I only had my phone with me but hopefully enough to get the idea across.

Could be quite easy to obscure the indicators with luggage on a rack with that setup but does look neat. Are there any rules about distance of number plate light away from the plate itself or does it have to adhere to a specific illumination standard?

"Clearly visible" woudl be my guess as to the requirement from memory. I don't think they could sensibly specify a standard as they woudl have to measure it in lumens I guess (or bulb wattage)

chopping the tail
 

hurry up then peatbog getting an itchy hacksaw:question:

givvus a chnce it's coming in the post tomorrow! :)

i was going to cut my tail unit up
but decided not to.
thinking if i messed it up, it will cost mega bucks to replace.
it looks like the light and tail is one complete unit.

Hi BigB - it's not one part, its loads of parts! - including a huge chunk of metal for some reason? The lamp itself is separate to the plastic 'mudguard' part and is sandwiched between the mudguard and metal support part (which weighs a ton!), along with assorted screws and bolts etc.

I'm sure you could price up the individual components at your dealer before deciding to take a hack saw to it if you wanted?

xxx

thought i'd update this post as i said watch this space then didn't do anything...sorry!

i priced the plastic part of the tail and was told �26(ish) +Vat. so I thought that for that price it wasnt worth trying to do something in ally when the standard one lends itself so well to moving the plate up. After all i like the stock tail lamp etc, i just wanted to make the bike's ass a bit smaller.

in the end i've finished up with something virtually the same as Jmo's, the 'watch this space' bit didn't work as when the plate arrived it was so small i would've been shot on sight if i'd used it on the road. What i did get though was a polycarbonate flexi plate (ebay) so at least it wont ever break.....hopefully.