600rr ers...show me your front number plate!! Please.

[PolishPete]

I've got a 2003 600rr that I've been trying to send out to paint for a few weeks now, but I can't decide on the color and design of the number plate on front.  I've got Armour Bodies bodywork.  Show me what you guys have!!

[truckstop]

Color? Color should be easy. You're an amateur right? It has to be yellow. Yellow. Not lemon, or neon, or post-it note, just straight up yellow. As for shape, you could look at a photographer's site, like Gron4 and look at what other people have done. Just don't do any super wonky shapes like stars. They don't like that so much.

[Jason748]

Yep, Truckstop's exactly right, gotta be normal yellow W/ black #'s.

Here's the # plates that were on your bike...


I've got more if you want to see them.

Here's what I ran on my 05 last year.


Never had one single complaint from Larry  on my plates or numbers!

[PolishPete]

Thanks guys.  Yes I know it has to be yellow...I was referring to the design aspect of the plate.  What shapes, sizes, angles, etc. you guys had.

[kl3640]

This is an '05, but I believe that the front cowl of the '05-'06 is the same or close enough to that of the '03-'04.  Hope it helps:

[wolf44]

be very plain or Larry will have a fit, hell he'll have a fit anyway since you will have yellow plates.  Make sure you use ones with serifs on them like this ->1 and not like this->l   He'll go nuts

[PolishPete]

Thanks.

And I just realized why there was confusion with color.  I meant I couldn't decided on the color of the bike (what color I was going to have it painted), and the design of the plate. (not color of the plate).

Thanks again for the replies.

[Z-man]

Be sure the plate is school bus yellow with no hint of green or neon.  After a crash I received my bodywork back from the painters with a hint of neon.  Went to Barber and the yelling started from 50 yards away.  After several hollers and finally the guy yelling for me to stop turning around I realized it was me he was yelling at.  Had to do a duct tape special to pass tech.

Z

[truckstop]

Make sure you use ones with serifs on them like this ->1 and not like this->l   He'll go nuts

I thought the number one should *not* have serifs? It should be a straight up and down stick - l - like in the pics above. If the top serif "wing" is too big, it can be mistaken for a 7. FYI I haven't found any normal sans-serif fonts that have a number one without at least some kind of notch or serif at the top. (I use a lower case "l" or capital "I" - which look correct depending on the font as long as they don't have serifs on it.)

[wolf44]

it was supposed to be a joke, thats why there was a smiley afterwards
at Road A he didn't check a damn thing but gave me shit for my serif on my 1.  Hell he saw it at HPT and didn't say a word about it

[Burt Munro]

it was supposed to be a joke, thats why there was a smiley afterwards
at Road A he didn't check a damn thing but gave me shit for my serif on my 1.  Hell he saw it at HPT and didn't say a word about it

Dan,

I can't tell you how many emergency serifectomy's I've had to perform. 

Luckily, most of the patients survive!      

[Sobottka]

or maybe it was a serfumcision