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Ever had a split plate?


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While looking at the back of my bike one day, I noticed that my license plate was slightly split on one side. That split got bigger, and eventually the other side did the same. Just wonder if this has ever happened to anyone else.

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The circle idea would probably work well. I think I'm going to try to get the DMV to give me a new one for free though being that I have only had it about a month and a half. If they don't I'm just going to weld it together haha.

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Yeah, I've seen plates crack from vibration. You've got a harmonic vibration. Try to dampen it out by using rubber washers to mount stuff, or adding weight somewhere that feels like it's vibrating less (half way between a length that is vibrating). You probably have to rev it up to road rpms to see and feel when and where the vibration is happening. For the plate to crack like that it would literally have to hum. Rubber washers or a gasket of rubber might fix it. Under the plate or the tail light bracket where it mounts on the fender, or the fender to the frame, etc. You might lose the ground for the lights, but a ground wire will fix that.

I used to crack tail light bulbs constantly, on one bike. I cut a gasket for under the tail light bracket on the fender, and added a wire between two bolts, tail light to frame, to keep the lights working.

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I'd try and repair it with some liquid steel epoxy on the back, take the plate off,

flatten out and apply the epoxy on the back side then maybe remount it in a plate

frame holder rather then by itself, the frame holder may help hold the plates shape

and equal out the vibration that caused the problem in the first place.

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I havn't had good luck with plates at all. I lost my 30 day tag for the bike after my 3rd ride so I just rode with no plates for the rest of the 27 days (very surprisingly without getting stopped) I somehow had the sticker for my trailer on my truck plates one time and almost got arrested because of it. My front plate on my truck got completely mangled one time and I have no idea how it happened. I think I'm just going to make a completely sealed plexi glass container for my plate and then put in on a small trialer behind my bike so nothing can happen to it haha.

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its all the power!!!!!!

Oh yeah, I almost fly off the back when I get on it! I can't keep the front wheel on the ground! Haha yeah right, my bike is slower than a hover round in wet cement.

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