bike plates?

[phil]

i'm just about to buy a bike that is coming from japan and tho the guy said he could get plates and book for an extra 20000 i now find out they will probably come from an old bike and would very much like to know if any of you goodly folk know if this is gonna land me in the poo.
cheers phil

 

[Robert Straghan]

I'll take one of those recycled 20K books.
Let me know where

 

[peterdigger]

I am for ever picking up Chiangmai number plates off the road near my wifes' locksmith shop. Several large Tiger beers will get you one, if you want one. Goodness knows what kind of bike they fell off though ! The street cops use our shop and have offered me on umpteen occasions a new book and plate for any bike - catch is the fifty grand baht ! Hence all my bikes now are bought new and thus legal. Been here 19 years - never had the bike I was on closely looked at, except when reregistering.