State inspection

[donbmw]

Having 2 motorcycles using the inspection sticker on the one I was riding was my original thought. My wife convinced me that the cost of the fine for doing that would be more than the fee paid($25) to inspect it.
She is right. --er yes dear.  

I would depend on how long  you can go with out getting stopped. I went 10 years on various cars with out the inspection then got stopped. The fine was what I would have paid if I had gotten the inspection. As far as my motorcycles I have not had them inspected for about 20 years. The times that I have been stopped they have never asked for the inspection sticker. Here it does not have to been seen on the bike only carried.

Don

[stockman]

You see cars here in New Hampshire that you know someone just bought a sticker. But most cars here only last about 8-10 years before you start having to replace brake lines / fuel lies due to rust. Also you can't have any rusted through holes that enter the passenger area. When I say 8-10 that means with care. Personally I've had a car for 22 years, 17 yrs. and 13 yrs. but all had some rust problems somewhere and of course steel lines replaced. Fortunately I always do my own work.
But those days are coming to an end as I have some pretty fierce arthritis in my fingers . I don't have the grip strength like I did except for gripping those handle bars.

[nhmaf]

Stockman -

I am actually happy that the motorcycle inspections fees are as low as they are (Relatively speaking).   It was only 1-2 years ago that state legislature had almost passed a bill requiring that all motorcycles to be inspected would have to be plugged into the OBDII computer diagnostic system.  Even if the bike didn't have any computer/OBDII port to connect with, the inspection centers would still have to hand-enter the motorcycle info into the computer database to issue a sticker.  This was going to raise the cost of the inspections to ~$45-55 per bike minimum, due to the cost of leases on the computer systems (if the bike shop could afford them) as well as the increased time to do the work, and a larger cut for the state's percentage of each inspection fee.  Fortunately this was killed before the shops had to buy/lease the computer equipment or get out of the inspection business early last year.   Thank gawd someone saw the silliness of it before too late.

[nhmaf]

They also had a bill in process to deal with overly loud exhaust systems on vehicles licensed for road use.   There had been challenges put up to the parameters of how the sound level measurements could be performed/enforced on various outdoor environments, calibration of sound meters and issueance to police departments, etc, and so the committee had countered with a proposal that would have made it illegal to run ANYTHING other than the stock, original factory exhaust system on any road registered motorcycle.   Obviously, trying to buy NOS exhaust systems for ~30 year old motorcycles is virtually impossible - but that almost didn't stop the legislators either.

I think that insanity can be found anywhere on this planet - the only variable/determining factor is how hard one has to look.   Usually no further than the local Dept. of Motor Vehicles..