Registration/LTSA etc

[sAsLEX]

I was planning on following the RallyNZ next year and was planning on getting my XR250 road legal. Now after noticing the other thread with respect to LTSA, I see no point in having two bikes licensed, plus the fact they are both Honda 250s so a quick plate swap could cover this issue up?

?Spud? how carefully do you/MOT/HP etc check these sort of things? its 200 for no rego whats the cost for lack of warrent? Have been pulled over sans L plate and they didn't say a thing so I am assuming not all police check bikes to carefully.

Each driver has to be licensed to use vehicles on the road, with different classes for different types of Vehicle. Why do we have to individualy register cars/bikes etc when this revenue (if absolutly essential) could be lumped on to the Drivers license, maybe some one should organise a petition of some sore to get this issue into the public eye.

[Motu]

I've always had too many bikes and not enough rego's,so have done plenty of plate swapping - have a bit of a chuckle when they say...yep,everything OK when running a C50 plate on my XS1,got a big fine when I told the cop my sidevalve BSA was a 1949,but he said it looks like a 1954 Goldflash to me! Some cops are interested in bikes,not all are stupid.

[Lou Girardin]

I've always had too many bikes and not enough rego's,so have done plenty of plate swapping - have a bit of a chuckle when they say...yep,everything OK when running a C50 plate on my XS1,got a big fine when I told the cop my sidevalve BSA was a 1949,but he said it looks like a 1954 Goldflash to me! Some cops are interested in bikes,not all are stupid.

I would've loved to have seen your face then, Motu.

[igor]

need a bike stand.

sent u a PM on 1

[spudchucka]

?Spud? how carefully do you/MOT/HP etc check these sort of things? its 200 for no rego whats the cost for lack of warrent? Have been pulled over sans L plate and they didn't say a thing so I am assuming not all police check bikes to carefully.

On the whole most don't check them to any great detail because the majority of cops don't know stuff all about bikes and wouldn't know an XR250 from a XJ1200. However some do know bikes and if a rego plate and VIN number don't match then alarm bells will ring, (stolen / ringed vehicle).

If you were caught you could be up for several hundred in fines.
Unregistered vehicle = $200
Wrong / inappropriate plates on vehicle = $200
No WOF = $200

[MikeL]

got a big fine when I told the cop my sidevalve BSA was a 1949,but he said it looks like a 1954 Goldflash to me!

But presumably the big fine was less than the amount you saved on regos, so you're way ahead eh??

[Motu]

Oh yeah - I'd say I was several thousand dollars and a few months in jail better off over all these years!

[merv]

... and there's me an honest chap (or should that read stupid) who has religiously (yeah vehicles are my religion) registered 4 cars, two bikes and a trailer for far too long.

[Deano]

I bought a bike just before xmas/new year holidays once, and no post offices were open to register it. I was chomping at the bit for a ride so chucked a plate of another bike onto it and off I went - Murphy's Law soon took effect and I was pulled over. Being a smallish town (Paraparaumu) I knew the cop fairly well from working in a gas station and previous larrakins in my RX4.

Anyway, I think he thought it was a bit of a joke really - early xmas present and all that and eager to go riding. Innocent enough reason for doing it - not like I was going to rob a bank believing I was on an unidentifiable bike.

He gave me a warning and I had to produce a new rego within a couple of weeks of the post office opening.

[Motu]

I've kept my 1974 Guzzi Stornello registered since I got it new in 1978,but haven't used it for nearly 20yrs - just missed the last one to keep it on the restoration file,now it will need a VIN if I ever bother to do it up.

I think I might get a XT225 next,put XT Artesia graphics on it and use the XT400 Artesia plate on it,so long as it's up to WoF standard I don't think I'd get pipped with it.

[igor]

I've kept my 1974 Guzzi Stornello registered since I got it new in 1978,but haven't used it for nearly 20yrs - just missed the last one to keep it on the restoration file,now it will need a VIN if I ever bother to do it up.

I think I might get a XT225 next,put XT Artesia graphics on it and use the XT400 Artesia plate on it,so long as it's up to WoF standard I don't think I'd get pipped with it.

I am gunna get the boys in Jaffaville to set up a 24hr op.

we will call it "Operation Get Shorty."

8 staff, 24 hr survellance, the moment ya pock ya head out that work shop door, they will swoop. Ion books at the ready. $200 fine for u big guy, the will get ya

[Motu]

Ok,Ok already - I'll stay at work all weekend and not go home....give the kids bruises time to heal anyway.

[k14]

Oh yeah - I'd say I was several thousand dollars and a few months in jail better off over all these years!

Are you serious?? You got jailed for that??

[Motu]

Are you serious?? You got jailed for that??

No - if I had ever been caught for all the things I haven't been caught for.

[Motu]

need a bike stand.

sent u a PM on 1

um,uh...yeah,I think that should stand up to some hard use.

Better go check the SPCA - I think all next years kittens have just exploded!

about the other matter? a well trimmed mustache I think.