Tax Disc

[TezzerTel]

Where would the tax disc holder been mounted? Thinking of putting one on mine with a old tax disc

[SteveD CB500K0]

Headlight bracket.
Unless you get one of those fancy watertight ones and put on a front wheel stay.


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[Skoti]

Also fit to the near side (front), which was the official position for them.

Possibly so the police wouldn't have to wander on to the road to check them when the vehicle was parked?

Anyway that's where we were instructed to fit tax disc holders when preparing new bike's for the road.

[Bryanj]

Officialy on the nearside in front of the rider, most common place as it was easiest was the mudguard stay at the bottom of fork, also made plod bend over to see!
EDIT
There is a seller on fleabay who will do any monyh and year for you to add class and reg in pen as originaly done

[Skoti]

Officialy on the nearside in front of the rider, most common place as it was easiest was the mudguard stay at the bottom of fork, also made plod bend over to see!
EDIT
There is a seller on fleabay who will do any monyh and year for you to add class and reg in pen as originaly done

I read in Classic bike that Dave Croxford used a Guinness bottle label as a tax disc in his Commer van.

[Bryanj]

Only in certain years as the colour changed!

[Spitfire]

Looking back at old photos my tax disc holder moved around a bit but the most often used places was the top and bottom yoke pinch bolts.

More recently, the bike has aged better than the rider


Cheers

Dennis

[Skoti]

Looking back at old photos my tax disc holder moved around a bit but the most often used places was the top and bottom yoke pinch bolts.

More recently, the bike has aged better than the rider


Cheers

Dennis

Great photos!

was your bike new when that first photo was taken?

[Johnny4428]

Great pictures of then and now. Interesting to know of the reproduction discs.

[Oddjob]

I always tried to fit mine on the rear shock mount, avoids the rain being driven at it as the riders leg protected it to some degree. Can still remember peeling soggy ones out of holders if the holder wasn't great.

[Spitfire]

Looking back at old photos my tax disc holder moved around a bit but the most often used places was the top and bottom yoke pinch bolts.

More recently, the bike has aged better than the rider


Cheers

Dennis

Great photos!

was your bike new when that first photo was taken?

Yes, taken not so long after I bought it in April 1976.

Cheers

Dennis

[taysidedragon]

Back in the day I used to mount my tax disc on a front mudguard stay.

My modded 400Four looked a bit bare on the left hand side so I got one of those copies from my bikes birth year and mounted it on the unused pillion footpeg mount.

[Athame57]

After trying a few other places I've long since settled for mounting it just in front of the right rear indicator.

[Spitfire]

Nice one, looked at some more old photos and my first CB750 had the tax disc in the same place but on the left.

Cheers

Dennis

[K2-K6]

I've always liked the tax disc, but not the holders though. Still have many from vehicles over the years as  momento.

The holders though, shocking in crap quality usually  shite paint that fell off in winter conditions, plate around the hole too big to logically fit into make bike architecture local to any convenient bolts realistic. Plastic enclosure type with no bolt spigot internal to the hole so it couldn't be tightened properly on a bolt securely that held something else important on your bike.

Sudo machined type with fake bolts and looking linke a porthole on an important pressure vessel,  misplaced engineering "styling" akin (and close relation of) to those sculpture of miscellaneous parts badly welded together and given to people that are interested in bikes as a present, so that'll do  never excuse for crap welding, ever, ever 

Probably just grumpy me though