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Title: Old tax disc holder where to mount?
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on May 01, 2022, 03:30:46 PM: Yes they do not issue them now but.........................

Where on the nearside of the bike do folk here mount the well expired VEL ?
Title: Re: Old tax disc holer where to mount?
Post by: allankelly1 on May 01, 2022, 03:34:12 PM: On the wall

Found this one in a box of bits at work that is older than me

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Title: Re: Old tax disc holer where to mount?
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on May 01, 2022, 03:49:59 PM: In 1967 I was in my first year at Uni at the ripe age of 19 yrs.

I'm trying for the period look Allan!
Title: Re: Old tax disc holer where to mount?
Post by: Oddjob on May 01, 2022, 04:19:35 PM: Sometimes on the front mudguard mount bolt at the bottom of the fork, sometimes on the chain guard bolt.

I have a brand new period tax disc holder around somewhere Ted if you want one. It's satin black I think.
Title: Re: Old tax disc holder where to mount?
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on May 01, 2022, 04:27:04 PM: Thanks Ken I have one that came with my bike - I've seen a nice on in SS but its on the pricey side.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275161752022?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=irECTGlPTFu&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=BaBAWJzrTH6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Title: Re: Old tax disc holder where to mount?
Post by: Seabeowner on May 01, 2022, 07:02:50 PM: That's where the dealer put it:[attachimg=1]
Title: Re: Old tax disc holder where to mount?
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on May 01, 2022, 09:56:35 PM: Quote from: Seabeowner on May 01, 2022, 07:02:50 PM
That's where the dealer put it: (Attachment Link)

Is that bolted to the upper fork clamp?
Title: Re: Old tax disc holder where to mount?
Post by: MrDavo on May 02, 2022, 09:02:49 AM: I always put them on the fork mudguard stay blot. I think the law said it had to be forward of the seat nose, but maybe that was just a rumour.
Title: Re: Old tax disc holder where to mount?
Post by: Spitfire on May 02, 2022, 10:56:55 AM: Mine also lives on the top of the forks (pinch bolt)
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Cheers

Dennis
Title: Re: Old tax disc holder where to mount?
Post by: mike the bike on May 02, 2022, 09:34:07 PM: How are you going to mount that anywhere? It hasn't got a bracket.
Title: Re: Old tax disc holder where to mount?
Post by: taysidedragon on May 03, 2022, 10:31:04 AM: I don't have pillion footrests on my bike so I put a tax disc from the year of manufacture on the lefthand footrest mounting.
Title: Re: Old tax disc holder where to mount?
Post by: Athame57 on May 03, 2022, 11:49:40 PM: I prefer the bolt that joins the fender to the fork as a mounting place myself. ;D
Title: Re: Old tax disc holder where to mount?
Post by: Oddjob on May 04, 2022, 03:50:43 AM: Except it would have been illegal there ;D ;D.

Had to be fitted to the N/S so it was visible from the kerb, had a copper telling me off over that many moons ago.

I always found it was too wet in that place, tax disc just started to dissolve despite the holder supposedly being waterproof
Title: Re: Old tax disc holder where to mount?
Post by: Bryanj on May 04, 2022, 04:15:23 AM: I was told on LH side of bike in front of the rider, i used to have 2 to wind the buggers up, old one at top and current one at bottom!
Title: Re: Old tax disc holder where to mount?
Post by: Athame57 on May 05, 2022, 01:54:31 PM: (https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/49388094_10156920478185477_6928784977282727936_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=p_BOhYeaShMAX_j1PHI&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&oh=00_AT-fyjPXDRQs3ZqoJz4f5_PwLHHwmyklw4ULDMmF0HvANQ&oe=629918E7)

Quote from: Oddjob on May 04, 2022, 03:50:43 AM
I always found it was too wet in that place, tax disc just started to dissolve despite the holder supposedly being waterproof

LOL! While dispatch riding in London I got stopped by a pair of policemen in the Aldwych crescent on a rainy day, they seemed to be concentrating on tax disc inspection. They pointed out my empty disc holder and I told them, truthfully, that it was on the office radiator drying out. They started laughing and one said 'we're letting you off because it is the best excuse we've heard all day'! ;D I never got pulled for the illegal position it was mounted in though, must have been one of those little known laws? Anyway, I think most of us are like I am these days, dry weather only riders!
Title: Re: Old tax disc holder where to mount?
Post by: mike the bike on May 05, 2022, 03:32:07 PM: On my GS1000 I had a car type holder on the inside of the fairing. One day it blew away while I was storming down the hill at well over 100 mph late as usual. Because there was only a few days to go until it expired, I didn't worry about it.
A few days later, doing well over 100 again, I got pulled over. Because there was no tax disc the cops done me for that and not the speeding.
After a visit to the LVLO, I could confirm that I had taxed the bike and got away with it.