Happy quarter of a century birthday to my MoGu Quota 1100 ES -

[p6x]

My Quota now shows her birth certificate. I purchased a correct year 2000 millesime license plate, and I registered it yesterday.

I like that you can do that in Texas. Once any of your vehicle has reached 25 years of age, you can install a vintage tag on it.

On top of it, 2000 was the beginning of the new millenium. I think it is a good thing.

I am planning to do the same with my 911 when my registration runs out later this year. I found the perfect plate.

 

This one is a reflection of my birth date and lucky number, the way I carried it P6....

Edited January 18 by p6x

[Bill Hagan]

Congrats!

I have sold cars and motorcycles, but (almost) always with a pang of regret.  

We keep most of ours for years and hundreds of thousands of miles.  

My '98 EV, bought as a new leftover in 2000, has 108K miles, and would have many more if I had not had dalliances and affairs with others along the way ... although several of those are still in my moto-harem down in the snowed-in Moto Grappa.

 

 

At risk of offering even more evidence of my pedantry, was not the year 2000 the last year of the second millennium, and thus not the first year of the third?  

Best wishes from the frozen top of Virginia,

Bill

P.S. I like the way you don't mask your tags.  It always interests me when folks do that.

Edited January 18 by Bill Hagan

[p6x]

5 hours ago, Bill Hagan said:

At risk of offering even more evidence of my pedantry, was not the year 2000 the last year of the second millennium, and thus not the first year of the third?  

This is academically correct. But 2000 was mostly celebrated as the start of the third.

[p6x]

5 hours ago, Bill Hagan said:

It always interests me when folks do that.

Same here!

I asked why; I was told to prevent giving away the location of the vehicle, should someone be able to hack into the vehicle registration database.

I know there are automatic tag readers on certain police cars, and the tag I had on the Quota from 2024, had a bar code. So it is very probable that in some kind of dystopian future, tags will have an NFD chip included.

It is more and more complicated to remain anonymous in any case.

[gstallons]

8 hours ago, p6x said:

This is academically correct. But 2000 was mostly celebrated as the start of the third.

That question was on Jeopardy , you will be surprised when the new century does begin .

 Also , you can get license plate covers that keeps the plate from being photographed and decals the cover the digits and makes them incapable of being photographed . 

Edited January 19 by gstallons

[Bill Hagan]

10 hours ago, p6x said:

This is academically correct. But 2000 was mostly celebrated as the start of the third.

 

10 hours ago, p6x said:

Same here!

I asked why; I was told to prevent giving away the location of the vehicle, should someone be able to hack into the vehicle registration database.

I know there are automatic tag readers on certain police cars, and the tag I had on the Quota from 2024, had a bar code. So it is very probable that in some kind of dystopian future, tags will have an NFD chip included.

It is more and more complicated to remain anonymous in any case.

 

1 hour ago, gstallons said:

That question was on Jeopardy , you will be surprised when the new century does begin .

 Also , you can get license plate covers that keeps the plate from being photographed and decals the cover the digits and makes them incapable of being photographed . 

 

As for first year of the new century and, in this instance, millennium, I pleaded guilty to pedantry. and am awaiting findings and sentencing.  

WRT to vehicle tags, there's a long thread on the issue here: https://advrider.com/f/threads/why-do-people-cover-their-license-plates.1516730/

Quibblingly yours,

Bill

 

[p6x]

3 hours ago, gstallons said:

That question was on Jeopardy , you will be surprised when the new century does begin .

 Also , you can get license plate covers that keeps the plate from being photographed and decals the cover the digits and makes them incapable of being photographed . 

As non US, I am very observant of the laws and rules of the country I am currently living. I lived in many, including some where you can be incarcerated for just being a foreigner. I learned to blend in.

But I also was in the military, when you learn to obey without any hesitation. It kind of stuck on me. I am disciplined.

Here where I live, I see a lot of cars with license tags covers that make them very difficult to read by the eye. I am not certain, but I bet the police cars have cameras that can read through those filters.

I have been stopped by the police several times, never been ticketed or referred to anything. Being an old guy has some advantages. This is my guess; I may be wrong. But it was really misdemeanor stuff; such as having only one license plate on my 911. I was told you need to have one in the front, but this was only a recommendation. A friend of mine has been fined, and had to send a picture of the installed front tag to the country.

It seems the traffic rules are left to the appreciation of the police.

[p6x]

2 hours ago, Bill Hagan said:

As for first year of the new century and, in this instance, millennium, I pleaded guilty to pedantry. and am awaiting findings and sentencing.  

I had the same kind of discution about 24:00/00:00. Which one is correct. Do you go from 23:59 to 24:00, or 23:59 to 00:00?

[gstallons]

Around here Mo. & Il. require front/rear plates . Ky & Tn do not require front/rear plates . The plate covers were advertised in Automobile magazine to filter mounted cameras for speeders . I am sure the decals performed the same deed for the plates. 

[docc]

7 hours ago, p6x said:

I had the same kind of discution about 24:00/00:00. Which one is correct. Do you go from 23:59 to 24:00, or 23:59 to 00:00?

23:59 --> 00:00

edit- I neglected to be properly pedantic: 23:59:59 --> 00:00:00  

[p6x]

5 hours ago, docc said:

23:59 --> 00:00

edit- I neglected to be properly pedantic: 23:59:59 --> 00:00:00  

We agree.

In Astronomy, they go from 23:59 to 00:00.

[docc]

The matter of registering vehicles as "antique" (25 years old here in Tennessee, USA) now applies to three of my vehicles (my two motorcycles and the 1999 ///M roadster). I was rather disappointed getting the antique plate for my 1990 Honda GB500 as the "tag" is a flat, uninspiring printed piece.

I tried to register an older "embossed"/ "stamped" antique tag I had for a 1975 motorcycle, but The State could not find it in their system. So, I mounted this tag as the displayed "millesime"/ vintage plate and attached the registered "antique" plate/tag under the seat.  This practice might require some explaining in the event of a roadside "conversation."

A conundrum arises registering my 2000 Sport as "antique" this year.

It seems I already have a "millesime"/vintage 2000 stamped plate. It's the one that has been on the bike all along. There is a stack of renewal stickers representing something like $1350US in registration fees over these twenty-five years.  I could mount the newly acquired "antique" tag under the seat and leave the original "vintage" tag in place, but it will just look >expired< likely leading to more of said "conversations" . . . 

While the GB500 and, perhaps, the ///M roadster might look antique-enough, I wonder if the V11 Sport design is just too Disco Volante to be considered properly "antique" by the common constabulary . . .

[gstallons]

In Ky there are all kinds of rules/limits on annual mileage / operating in parades , just a bunch of things to dissuade you from considering a vintage plate. 

[p6x]

1 hour ago, gstallons said:

In Ky there are all kinds of rules/limits on annual mileage / operating in parades , just a bunch of things to dissuade you from considering a vintage plate. 

They have rules in Texas too. Basically, the only times you are supposed to ride your bike is during parades, or vintage vehicles reunions, or to a garage for maintenance.

Now, I doubt very much the Police will pay much attention to a vintage motorcycle with an antique tag.

I read a blog from a guy who has a long list of reasons to be proposed to the police in case of a stop while being on the road. Such as going to meet friends that want to see the car and look at it.

 

[Pressureangle]

Here in FL, nobody cares what you do with historic/antique tagged vehicles. Next time I have to replace a plate it will be vintage; my only vehicles that don't qualify are my '04 Yukon and this accidental '05 BMW RT. 

If I take a Moto Guzzi, or my '68 Charger anywhere including the grocery store, it's an automatic car show because inevitably I end up talking to someone. If I'm driving up the boulevard, it's a parade; FL statute doesn't include a definition for 'parade', nor requires some sanction for it. Statute requires permitting for parades that interfere with traffic or normal business. For plate covers, paints, etc. that are intended to defeat reading, either by eye or technology, they are strictly forbidden though I don't personally know anyone who's been cited for it. The plate readers on the squad cars are so good it probably doesn't matter anyway.