Waiting for the snow to melt means I had some time to rig up this inexpensive plate flipper. Under $50 in supplies including a $25 stainless plate backer. Used the latching 4-Way flasher button to activate the relay for the actuator.

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* Last updated by: Madmak on 4/4/2011 @ 11:26 AM *

no vid bro

Link to URL works, embedding didn't??

Cool

very James Bond of you but will it stay up when your doing 100+? Personally, I've been wanting to install a tack bin to drop tire spikes at the flip of the switch. Much more amusing. :)

Either that or the plate flipper should flip to a middle finger.

I'm just looking to avoid the 10-20 over photo tickets, no out-running anybody. I wouldn't even use it around a real cop that could pursue me, just around the fleet of private contractors running photo radar traps from unmarked cars and all the red light / speed cameras around.

It should stay up at good speeds, the actuator is pretty torquey. Anything above 100MPH, the timing on the radar cameras seem to miss you entirely.

Well cool. is this something many people do up there?

I've never seen one in person but a lot of guys bend their plates up or down to the point you can't read them. This works but draws the wrong attention and a possible ticket. I wanted to be totally legal (plain view with light) with an option to hide momentarily.

very cool this 1 is nice too

http://www.hideplates.com/products/motorcycle-electric-plates

In many states, if they catch you (just bad luck, patrol car sitting nearby) with a flipped plate or the mechanism to do so, they will hit you with criminal charges.

They will in Maryland.

And you've no privacy protections, if they want to start pushing buttons to see which one flips the plate, there is nothing you can do about it as long as they have reasonable suspicion.

I guess in low population states you might get away with it, but not anywhere there is a large police patrol presence.

lol yea priv i get into enough trouble with my leds cause i forget to turn them off after bike night i know the first time id use that plate flipper id forget to put it back down lol better put a green and red led on there to show u if its up or down lol

Your better than me, the red led could be on for hours saying the plate is flipped, and I'd miss it. Then I'd be sitting at a light and a patrol car would pull up behind me, and I'd be busted.

I like it Madmak, although I'd probably be too scared to use it. Would be nice to have to avoid those pesky cameras though. Any chance of some photo's showing the mechanism am really curious to see how you have done it??

It's a pitty it don't fit the ones I would def use it scottjkyl AS for concience of using it ? not a problem as them @^%$^@#$% don't give a $#%#$@#$!$ about that it's for revenue with-in 10klicks

* Last updated by: bean07 on 4/4/2011 @ 10:08 PM *

Hey Bean, with all your free time at the moment, why dont you design and build two and I'll buy one off ya

Hey their brenny right about the time cobbar but me thinks LOL more up a mechanics alley than boilermaker's trade? all the same we wouldn't want to be caught out using them hey I reckon you'd go down big time hell their talking ZERO KMH speed tollerance "Here" now mate that's fucking bullshit when ya take in to concideration TYRE Diameter/speedo error/Down hill creep, more like a fucking dictatership than democracy!

Yeah I reckon you're on the money, it would be the crime of the century, would make the front page and you'd end up doing less time for murder.

BLOODY OATH MATE

Fair suck of the sav, stone the crows & you bewdy newc. I wonder if our American counterparts have any idea what we are goin on about. I recken if we really tried we could completely talk in aussie slang and they'd have NFI.

But if you had anything important to say we'd understand it!

Even if iI had an important furphy to share over the lolly trough?

Not having a go Privateer, just having a bit fun

* Last updated by: Brenny on 4/5/2011 @ 5:45 AM *

Nope. see I didn't understand a damn thing you just said right there. LOL You guys crack me up.

I think this plate thing would be better served if you could steal a plate and have it flip to the stolen plate and back. Especially if it was some assholes' old plate! Damn that'd be fun.

I love Aussie slang! It's feels like I'm instantly on vacation, sitting on a bar stool, smiling! Canadians are cool too eh.

FAIRDINKUM BROs all ZX1400 RIDERS AROUND THE WORLD NO MATTER WHAT AGE WE ARE JUST FUN LOVING BIG KIDS we just luv injoying are "BIG ZX14's AN THE BEST FORUM FOR zx1400 AROUND THIS PLANET LOL F--ING OATH HE HE THIS IS ARE ORSAM RELEASE SITE WHEN NOT RIDING THEM

* Last updated by: bean07 on 4/5/2011 @ 7:59 PM *