Where Do You Hang Yours? - (Tax Disc That Is!)

[RichieS]

Tax discs

Plod pulls you, first thing his mate is doing (they always come in pairs) is checking via DVLA for owner details tax & insurance, so why the feck worry about where you hang it

Because.....it is an offence for 'Fail to display'. Adopt the correct attitude and you should have no worries, otherwise ,find yourself at the side of the road for longer than you wish and get a £30 non endorsable for fail to display!!!

 

[Yoda]

On the rear side of the left hand cylinder.

 

[VAL. H.]

please take a photo ??

my life is incomplete

The correct location for the tax disc is on the front left hand quater of the bike.
The reason for this is that it is easily found by those that have authority to check the information i.e. Traffic vultures err? wardens, Police, etc. As with a car the disk must be displayed in the bottom left corner of the windscreen. When the law was made most bikes didn't have windscreens, hence front left quater.

Also the disc is treated in the same way as a car park ticket, i.e. it must be payed and displayed. If it's in your pocket or hidden or fixed elswhere, then it's officialy not displayed and therefore assumed not payed.

The authorised person who has reason to look for the disc is not required to spend time looking, if it's not where it's supposed to be then it's officialy not there.
Fortunately there arn't many wardens or cops around now that won't atleast try to find it.

Mine hangs off the front of the cilinder head, gets dirty, gets cleaned, havent managed to scrape it on the road yet, must try harder.

You could always put the disc in the screen with some clear sticky back plastic.
The idea of a colour copy might get you a sumonds for 'frauds and use of' if you had realy pissed them off.

 

[Schnell Panzer]

Because.....it is an offence for 'Fail to display'. Adopt the correct attitude and you should have no worries, otherwise ,find yourself at the side of the road for longer than you wish and get a £30 non endorsable for fail to display!!!

Civil disobedience, save yourself the fee for a replacement disc and the cost of a holder as nobody else is going to replace them for you if some little ba$tard nicks em.

 

[Kevmulcock]

As a thought,
What are the chances of an insurance company failing to pay up in event of an accident if the bike isnt showing a disk?

I know it is a long shot, however insurance companies would try ANYTHING to get out of paying up.

Picture the scene......you have an accident, (fault or non fault) bike is recovered and taken to garage for insurance quotation........ they find there is No Valid Tax Disk present, then insurance is invalid (check out small print!)

You may find that you could be liable for other persons claims
Imagine the lawsuit for death or disability?????

 

[Brian ROSEN]

Amazing oversight!

Difficult to believe that the designers forgot about this essential! No real problem in France because there is no road fund licence thus no tax disc. However it IS necessary to display the Insurance details ( a small green document about 2" square) and the usual method is to put it into a self adhesive warterproof transparent envelope, supplied by the insurance company and stick it on the front mudguard or the screen. However as I had a nice s/s disc holder left over from the UK , mine is in that, bolted onto the frame just below the seat with a simple clamp which I made from anodized aluminium. It is very unobtrusive, out of the muck and is quite legal.

 

[Butler]

Laminate your tax disc then put it in the holder. Never goes soggy.

 

[Meath]

Mine is mounted on the bolt on the back of the helmet lock (which i never use), suprised no one used that, it stays clean enough there too.

 

[Ogmios]

its rare in Ireland to see a tax disc actually on a bike, though the law says it should be.
sometime you see riders with the disc, in its holder, on the bikes keyring, in the ignition - so its 'displayed'...at least while in motion . but i wouldn't dangle something that heavy out of my ignition.
so, mines where most people keep it; in me wallet along with all other paperwork .
rarely, very rarely will a Gard hassle over this - if they do, (happened me last - about ten years ago) i tell them "no way will i put it on the bike - had too many nicked in the past".
they've never made an issue over it and i've (so far ) never got a ticket.

ooh, just thought - some riders do keep it on the bike....on the no. plate - angled so as to obscure as many digits as possible!
silly i reckon - you may as well put a sign up saying "pull me - i'm suspicious"

~~
Og

 

[Dave C]

french insurance

Brian

Oberon engineering make a aluminium holder for french insurance cards/stickers....
Saw therwm at the NEC.
I have their tax disk holder, well made, and no more expensive than the cr*ppy plastic ones most bike shops sell.