Bike needs here an streetlegal reflector on the backside ;-)

Hi Rob,
Side reflectors have been mandatory on motorcycles here since 2017—curiously enough, prior to that, they were actually prohibited! In the past, whenever I had to present my bikes for inspection, I had to either tape over or remove the reflectors located on the forks and rear shock absorbers of all my Z1 900s. For the forks, chrome caps were available to serve as replacements for the reflectors... and as for the weak stock shock absorbers, we usually replaced those with Koni shocks anyway!    

see on my old pictures...On the Z1b from `75 (i had in 2004), the rear shocks are replicas with the reflectors, on the forks are chrome caps...like on my racing-customized `73 Z1

BTW: On the last picture you can see, what size of licenceplate we must have before 2011..!!! VERRY, verry big plates, It was a disgrace to any good bike; it completely ruined the bike's entire look.   

 

Well You just answered my long time question Joe about why i'd seen those silver lower fork reflectors instead of amber ones!! Fickle DOT legislation ha.