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Stolen plate ?

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brownelvis

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I went for a ride this morning and then came back home for a bit for lunch. After eating I went to wash my bike and noticed the license plate was gone. I didn't notice anything in the morning but it was early in the morning. I don't think the plate could've fell off either as I bolted it on myself when I bought the bike a about a month ago and it was pretty well on there unless both bolts just disintegrated. I live in a condo with a shared garage so maybe someone just yanked it. I called it into the police but there's a 4 hour wait to give a report so I'm kind of waiting on my hands now, going to head to the MTO office and see if they can replace it for me. Kind of annoying as I took today off to ride and now I'm parked. Has this been known to happen?
 
common issue among TO, they take the plates so they can steal other bikes later...
 
Next set of plates use some blue loctite or oddball type screws/bolts to hold the plate on. I.e. torx or an actual bolt, as opposed to the flat head plastic screws everyone uses. Zip ties aren't bad if you make it hard to cut off too.
 
el_felo said:
common issue among TO, they take the plates so they can steal other bikes later...
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I thought people steal car plates to steal bikes, not bike plates...

How would that even work for bikes? Swapping the plate when stealing the bike? Whats the purpose of that?
 
They'll take the plate off of a similar bike to the one they're planning to steal. That way if someone runs the plate, it won't come back as stolen (until the plate is reported as stolen too, but by then the bike is usually in a van or garage somewhere getting stripped.)

How would you use a car plate to steal a bike?
 
The last time I had my plates stolen they went to steal gas with it.... and they drove a bmw..
 
DaveTheCanuck said:
They'll take the plate off of a similar bike to the one they're planning to steal. That way if someone runs the plate, it won't come back as stolen (until the plate is reported as stolen too, but by then the bike is usually in a van or garage somewhere getting stripped.)

How would you use a car plate to steal a bike?
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The bike is usually in a van with stolen plates where the bike plate is not visible anyways which is why I don't understand why someone would steal bike plates.

JL86 said:
The last time I had my plates stolen they went to steal gas with it.... and they drove a bmw..
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Seems kind of odd for someone to steal plates off a motorcycle to steal like $20 of gas.
 
PLau said:
The bike is usually in a van with stolen plates where the bike plate is not visible anyways which is why I don't understand why someone would steal bike plates.



Seems kind of odd for someone to steal plates off a motorcycle to steal like $20 of gas.
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Sorry for the misunderstanding it was on my car lol. I also dont understand why would someone steal a bike plate as well. It would be flagged anyways.
 
New address for 407 billing?

The bikes vibration tends to loosen bolts. Did you use loctite?
 
Baggsy said:
New address for 407 billing?

The bikes vibration tends to loosen bolts. Did you use loctite?
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No loctite, but I've had the same bolts on my last bike for 2 years with no issues, they were on there pretty damn tight. I really hope that the plate just fell off but I have a really hard time believing that. I doubt both bolts would fall off like that either, probably one first than the other and it probably would have hit my tire a few times if that was the case.

The last time I drove was Sunday and I remember seeing the plate because my bike was filthy from the rain. I didn't notice the plate missing this morning but I don't distinctly recall it being there, however I did drive by tons of cops today directing traffic at construction sites and driving on the 401, I doubt they'd take too kindly to me riding around with no plates on but who knows.

The other thing is one of the bolts was weird, it was really hard to tighten/loosen at a certain part of the threads, I mean its realllllly hard to get that bolt off unless you're using a ratchet with a good amount of leverage, so basically I doubt that bolt just casually fell off.

Also a couple of weeks ago I noticed the rain cover on my bike looked tampered with but nothing was missing so I didn't pay any mind to it. This whole thing is weird but oh well, I got new plates - could have been worse.
 
you still might get billings form the toronto turnpike (407) with your old plate number for a month after you have reported the plate stolen.
 
plates magically re-appear with 2 tickets to a Jays game "Sorry friend, had to borrow your plate, here are 2 tickets to the jays game to say I'm sorry"
you go to the game, you come back, you've been robbed.
 
nfq said:
plates magically re-appear with 2 tickets to a Jays game "Sorry friend, had to borrow your plate, here are 2 tickets to the jays game to say I'm sorry"
you go to the game, you come back, you've been robbed.
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Double Whammy!
 
brownelvis said:
I went for a ride this morning and then came back home for a bit for lunch. After eating I went to wash my bike and noticed the license plate was gone. I didn't notice anything in the morning but it was early in the morning. I don't think the plate could've fell off either as I bolted it on myself when I bought the bike a about a month ago and it was pretty well on there unless both bolts just disintegrated. I live in a condo with a shared garage so maybe someone just yanked it. I called it into the police but there's a 4 hour wait to give a report so I'm kind of waiting on my hands now, going to head to the MTO office and see if they can replace it for me. Kind of annoying as I took today off to ride and now I'm parked. Has this been known to happen?
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MTO can't "replace" stolen plates. They get input into the stolen plate registry. You can, however, get new ones.
 
nfq said:
plates magically re-appear with 2 tickets to a Jays game "Sorry friend, had to borrow your plate, here are 2 tickets to the jays game to say I'm sorry"
you go to the game, you come back, you've been robbed.
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Hmmm. sell tickets on Kijiji then sit at home and wait. Could be fun!
 
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