Registration Plates for Bikes

By on July 25, 2009 in cycling
Registration for Bikes

Registration for Bikes

You sometimes here the odd person say, bikes should be fitted with registration plates so we can identify bad cyclists.

Well, I don’t think its a good idea. You might as well make Friday night revellers have a registration plate around their neck, so they can be easily identified on CCTV when they drunkenly kick over plants.

Anyway, this old fashioned bike has it’s own number plate. At least it’s easy to pick out in bike racks.


One Response to Registration Plates for Bikes

  1. Eddie October 20, 2010 at 9:49 am #

    Over here in China, bikes used to require registration plates – under the hardlined communism of the ’60s and ’70s, bikes were the primary transport of the people and were sold under a quota system (as was pretty much everything else) – therefore bikes were registered against the owner and even today you can still see some old roadster bikes with a little white number plate hanging from the bars. After the cycle industry was deregulated in 1994, bikes still were required by law to carry license plates but more recently this has been abolished as it was decided that having license plates was just another way for the government to earn money through registration fees and had no real purpose.

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