https://www.hdforums.com/forum/ en Fri, 22 May 2026 03:25:38 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.hdforums.com/forum/images/kirsch/misc/rss.jpg https://www.hdforums.com/forum/ https://www.hdforums.com/forum/the-dark-side/1494034-virginia-inspection-station-lies-about-my-car-tire-new-post.html Sun, 17 May 2026 19:10:40 GMT I took my bike to a local inspection station for my annual inspection this past week. I've had it and my previous two bikes inspected there, with car tires going back at least 16 years.
The inspector looks at the back tire and says, "Is that a car tire?" I responded that I don't see where it says car tire on it but it does say DOT. Long story short, he says car tires on motorcycles have been illegal for the last 20 years here. I'm kinda surprised at that and asked him, "if car tires have been illegal for the past twenty years, why was it just last year that Captain Stewart of the Virginia State Police issued a decree stating that, which was quickly snuffed out by my Delegate after I contacted her about it?" He said the laws are on the books and that's how he inspects. I told him, I've been getting new stickers here for the past 16 years. He said I shouldn't have.
OK, so I left and went home to check on the law just to be sure there wasn't something recent that I missed. Yep, sure enough, the inspection regs, dated March 2026, just two months ago say nothing about car tires on motorcycles. I went back to the shop the next day and asked him to show me were he's getting his info from. He pulls out the book on inspections, turns to the page for motorcycle inspections, paragraph 400 where it talks about tractor tires or trailer tires could not be used. Nothing else. He said, "I'm still not inspecting your bike". I told him that will get his inspection permit pulled and that I would be going to the VSP for assistance on this. I walked out then a moment later he calls me to come back inside. So I do. He asks me to come around the counter to look at his computer screen. He's got a page up with the full Admin order concerning tires on motorcycles and it states a couple times that car tires shall not be used. As I'm reading it a couple times I realize this is CoPilot summary of the reg, not the actual law but using the actual paragraph from the inspection book. I told him that's not the actual reg and left.
So this guy has lied to me twice now over this and then refused me service as a public inspection station. ]]> The Dark Side EasternSP https://www.hdforums.com/forum/the-dark-side/1494034-virginia-inspection-station-lies-about-my-car-tire.html