Yellow sport bike

A yellow supersport photographed from behind in a warm-lit garage, close enough to read the plate it is carrying: a Gloriana plate, not a Leonida one.

The camera is low and behind the machine. The tail unit is a satin yellow wedge that narrows to a point, with a black pillion pad ahead of it, and the tail light is a single red LED bar folded into a chevron along the top edge. Below it a black indicator stands out on a short stalk, and the plate hangs off a bracket with a small amber marker beside it.

The plate is the find. It reads GLORIANA across the top and AMERICA along the bottom between two dots, with the number printed over a graphic of a green frond and an orange sun. The characters are partly swallowed by that graphic and we will not transcribe them. A small dated sticker sits in the bottom right corner of the plate, reading as JAN.

The setting is interior and warmly lit: a red-orange wash across a wall, a perforated steel rack at the right, a doorway further back with a figure standing in it.

How to recognise it

• Satin yellow tail unit tapering to a point, black pillion pad ahead of it
• Single red LED tail light folded into a chevron
• Indicator on a short stalk below the tail light
• Plate reads GLORIANA over AMERICA, with a frond and sun graphic behind the number
• A month sticker in the corner of the plate, reading as JAN

The frame it comes from

The frame is a still from the official Press pack, which carries no timecode. It is 3840 by 2160, and the vehicle occupies 1728 by 972 of it. Also in it: the LIQUOR BAR neon, a vertical neon sign reading HODWINKS, and Lucia Caminos.

What we still do not know

• The registration number. The plate graphic eats it.
• The name, and the manufacturer. Nothing is badged in this crop.
• Why this machine wears a Gloriana plate. Two other vehicles in the database do; most carry Leonida.
• Everything measured: top speed, handling, price, where it spawns