Plate Side Mount-Legality Questions
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In Va you need a Tag light to pass Inspection. However you cant aquire the stickers as easy as you were once able to with out a visit to the Inspection Station . The 20.00 Kurry light bolts, work well and will pass Inspection if the Inspector is Decent. It's not all that bad of a law, It's inconvient, but keeps alot of the off shore citizens from driveing anything that will Roll and dropping parts Off.
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I was making a joke, I have had bikes my whole life, just not a harley. I live in Florida on a long stretch of A1A, so it is not often I am passing cops. Also, I have been riding without a tag here since I got my bike, do to the fact I didnt reeive the title until yesterday. I have had three cops directly behing me and no one has pulled me over. They dont seem to really care about the tag here in jacksonville from my experience. I atually never had a tag on my last bike either. By the way, I am 35, a doctor, so yes I have some sence of responsibility, and three children. I do however, think certain rules are made to be broken.
Just my opinion.
Just my opinion.
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ORIGINAL: mudpuddle
I myownself wouldn't exactly say funny.
It is, no doubt about it,but, even more so, sad.
I'm gonna take a wild guess here - way under 30 y/o.
Rules are not enforced anymore, by the parents, the schools,
or the law, for that matter.
Chaos is not a good thing.
A good time is a good thing,
and bad things happen w/o a few simple rules.
The simple ones have to befollowed,
in order forthe more complicated ones to be respected.
And, when ya get right down to it,
none of emcount -
unless ya get caught,
or hurt someone.
Through the years, I have seen more than a few folks
get some serious hurt put on em,
and I do mean serious, as in permanent bodily injury,
cause of a FLICK the man attitude.
the two week "biker" phenomenum is only a decade
or maybe two in the making.
15 grand and a dew rag does not a "biker" make.
A certain amount of humility and respect is a factor as well.
**** the cagers. YEAH forkem.
EasyRiders was a movie.Remember how it ended??
And that wasn't even "the man".
Enough of this shiit, on your next point below:
Yeah, boogie, I can buy em all day long here in my neck of the woods.
It's always been that way.
I can buy or make fake insurance cards as well.
They won't get your *** out of a crack though.
But, w/o the lic plate light,
Inspection sticker or not,
the dog is still gonna bark at me.
And a barking dog usually follows that up with a desire to bite sumthin.
And the guy that sells that sticker out the back door
is puttin his license on the line, cause if that sticker gets pulled over that day,
and there is some glaring defect, it goes right back to the inspection station.
Butt whut the fork.
I can PhotoShop an inspection sticker for you in a matter
of maybe 10-15 minutes.
Best thing I've found, grow up with a guy that's now a Sargeant
with the PD. Keep his cell phone number in your wallet at all times.
Those guys can pull in favors from their patrolmen all day and all night.
I do know this for a fact.
It is a lot of fun to type out "fork the man",
but, when the blue lites flash,
I have found that it's best not to be voicin these sentiments.
mud
Snap! that there is some funny ****! But seriously, the 'man' has a job to do and like mud said, don't give him an inviteto pull you over....
Got a question for you folks that have annual vehicle inspection programs: Are they still the joke they used to be? When I was a young lad growing up in CT, we had a garage owner that would 'sell' you an inspection sticker for a couple bucks over the 'official' price...Don't get me wrong, I belive they are legitimate but I remember a time...
ORIGINAL: boogiewithtuck
Snap! that there is some funny ****!
But seriously, the 'man' has a job to do and like mud said,
don't give him an inviteto pull you over....
Snap! that there is some funny ****!
But seriously, the 'man' has a job to do and like mud said,
don't give him an inviteto pull you over....
It is, no doubt about it,but, even more so, sad.
I'm gonna take a wild guess here - way under 30 y/o.
Rules are not enforced anymore, by the parents, the schools,
or the law, for that matter.
Chaos is not a good thing.
A good time is a good thing,
and bad things happen w/o a few simple rules.
The simple ones have to befollowed,
in order forthe more complicated ones to be respected.
And, when ya get right down to it,
none of emcount -
unless ya get caught,
or hurt someone.
Through the years, I have seen more than a few folks
get some serious hurt put on em,
and I do mean serious, as in permanent bodily injury,
cause of a FLICK the man attitude.
the two week "biker" phenomenum is only a decade
or maybe two in the making.
15 grand and a dew rag does not a "biker" make.
A certain amount of humility and respect is a factor as well.
**** the cagers. YEAH forkem.
EasyRiders was a movie.Remember how it ended??
And that wasn't even "the man".
Enough of this shiit, on your next point below:
ORIGINAL: boogiewithtuck
Got a question for you folks that have annual vehicle inspection programs:
Are they still the joke they used to be? When I was a young lad growing up in CT,
we had a garage owner that would 'sell' you an inspection sticker for a couple bucks over the 'official' price...
Don't get me wrong, I belive they are legitimate but I remember a time...
Got a question for you folks that have annual vehicle inspection programs:
Are they still the joke they used to be? When I was a young lad growing up in CT,
we had a garage owner that would 'sell' you an inspection sticker for a couple bucks over the 'official' price...
Don't get me wrong, I belive they are legitimate but I remember a time...
Yeah, boogie, I can buy em all day long here in my neck of the woods.
It's always been that way.
I can buy or make fake insurance cards as well.
They won't get your *** out of a crack though.
But, w/o the lic plate light,
Inspection sticker or not,
the dog is still gonna bark at me.
And a barking dog usually follows that up with a desire to bite sumthin.
And the guy that sells that sticker out the back door
is puttin his license on the line, cause if that sticker gets pulled over that day,
and there is some glaring defect, it goes right back to the inspection station.
Butt whut the fork.
I can PhotoShop an inspection sticker for you in a matter
of maybe 10-15 minutes.
Best thing I've found, grow up with a guy that's now a Sargeant
with the PD. Keep his cell phone number in your wallet at all times.
Those guys can pull in favors from their patrolmen all day and all night.
I do know this for a fact.
It is a lot of fun to type out "fork the man",
but, when the blue lites flash,
I have found that it's best not to be voicin these sentiments.
mud
ORIGINAL: xxxflhrci
Says the two week biker....
https://www.hdforums.com/m_1268122/tm.htm
ORIGINAL: JaxStreetBob
Who cares, **** the man!
Who cares, **** the man!
https://www.hdforums.com/m_1268122/tm.htm
Got a question for you folks that have annual vehicle inspection programs: Are they still the joke they used to be? When I was a young lad growing up in CT, we had a garage owner that would 'sell' you an inspection sticker for a couple bucks over the 'official' price...Don't get me wrong, I belive they are legitimate but I remember a time...
There is truth in your wordsmud. We call it 'gray beard wisdom' in mycircle and it is extremely valuble- just so we understand, I found humor in the fact that the "fork the man" was tracked back to a fresh rider, nothing more. Unfourtunatley, if the co
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I was a doctor too for 30 years, Now retired at 51. I have about 20 children rangeing from 1937 thru 2006, All of my children, and patients, were Harleys. I try not to Invite any kind of stop by the Man. I've broke too many rules and need no reminders.
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Mudpuddle A large % of the patrol men here ride, (mostly H.D.) and they give ya respect if you act accordingly, most wave or nood. I've been stopped twice this winter but mostly to check out one of my older bikes, or How did ya do, kinda Questions, And allways without lights but a pull along side and asked to pull over with respect. But I do kinda just Putt not much of a danger. I show them my respect by keeping everything as close to legal as possible. Man I'm getting Old
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Late last year i came to a light and a cop was next to me. i needed to get ahead and pass so i could turn at the next light. once i changed lanes and was in front of him....... lights came on. i thought it would be for speeding when i passed. pipes too loud. nope. sidemount plate. the guy was a sargeant. nice enough guy. told me he was at a conference a while back that discussed this type of thing. he said it is illegal. i askeed what to do. he said that he wasn't going to tell me to change it or not too change it and that it was an informative stop. guaranteed if i didn't pull over right away or nothad my paper work in order and didn't treat him with respect i woulda been done. that being said i'm not changing it but i'm not going to give'em a reason to pull over either
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One thing I'll add for no reason to my post earlier is that my cop friend said he and his partners in order rarely stop bikes because he knows there is nothing under the seat or in the trunk of a bike. Basically, he knows they have no room to store stuff so he's not going to be able to do a search, find something, and get officer of the month.
Racezilla500, In regards to you finding a sidemount plate, the moco accidentally mounted your sidemount plate on your rear fender. I just disassembled that one used and shaped what I needed and welded it onto the swingarm. Simple, no bracketry, painted it black, true bobber style.
Racezilla500, In regards to you finding a sidemount plate, the moco accidentally mounted your sidemount plate on your rear fender. I just disassembled that one used and shaped what I needed and welded it onto the swingarm. Simple, no bracketry, painted it black, true bobber style.