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Saturday, 23 October 2010

The Black Bullet 3.6 - Miles Covered 60.4


A picture worth a thousand words - The Black Bullet has risen!

I cut a stencil at work yesterday and sprayed the number on a few minutes ago. When its dry I'm going for a spin, out on the main road.

I tried to download the official number plate font for this job but the Evil Corporation's IT department won't even grant priviledges to change the time on work computers, let alone install new fonts, so I checked the rules on alphanumeric dimensions and did the best I could with the fonts to hand.

It will be a very picky PC that to pull me over for non-conformity but a classic number plate is just shy of £40, and that would have to bolt over the original, so I'm going to make do with this arrangement for the time being.

The registration document states that the bike is, Rebuilt - assembled from parts some or all of which were not new. It's a bit of an insult to the old girl but the DVLA have played fair by their own rules and I can't slate them for that. The notification of registration came with a tax disc, I'm going to slot it into the holder and get out there. Nuff said.