http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/1091/cycling/registration-plates-for-bikes/ Cycling info - advice and tips Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:22:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/1091/cycling/registration-plates-for-bikes/comment-page-1/#comment-31784 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:49:36 +0000 http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/?p=1091#comment-31784 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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