What did you do on or to your other bike part 2

[Gone in 60]

Man, Pdedse and Alp, I'm quite jealous! Those are some beautiful rides! Pdedse, hope you feel better quick! I'm nursing some bumps, bruises and sunburn from the event we just finished.

I took a day off to recuperate from being on the road for a while, and had to come up with a birthday present for my new boss. He was talking about the houndstooth interior used on certain '69 Camaros, and as luck would have it, there's a black and white houndstooth sweater currently being sold in the Petersen Museum gift shop - it's an homage to Porsche's use of the pattern, but houndstooth is houndstooth. Jumped on the Triumph and rode headlong into weekday traffic to zip up to the museum to buy the sweater for him. All-in-all in both directions, I ended up lane splitting about 30 or so miles. Very good ride-sharpening skills now that my commute is sporadic and doesn't have much traffic. 

And, I got to show off the little bit of vanity I just stuck on the back of the Bonnie. My most recent registration year decal just showed up. In California, the new year decal is just stuck over the top of the old one, and this would have been on top of the stack with the original 2012 sticker on the bottom, making for quite a thick collection. I used a little heat to soften the decals to pull off most of them, but ended up taking half of the paint too. So, as long as I needed a replacement plate (can't have a nasty looking plate on my bike), I sprung for the "Legacy Plate", recreating the look of the 1960s era standard issue black and yellow license plates. I thought the look fit the bike quite well.

[Cormanus]

Interesting about the registration decal. Some years ago now we moved away from having to have them. The instant access the police have to the registration database means all they need is the plate.

[Gone in 60]

The reasoning to my knowledge for the decals in CA is to give LEO a quick visual to see if a plate is current or expired if they pull up behind a vehicle. Once you pay your registration for the year, the state sends you a new year decal and registration paper, and the month is when the vehicle was originally registered. So, my JUN 2026 plate is current through June of 2026. A plate that shows, let's say JAN 2025 would be expired at the end of January '25.

I've had the lovely experience of car pooling with a coworker in his expired car to long-term parking at LAX for a business trip. While we were gone, the police made a sweep through the lot and towed every car that had an expired plate. So, we came back from our trip, and found the car was gone. Not fun.

That being said, in some cases, it is possible for someone to carefully peel off a fresh year decal on a warm plate heated by the sun, and stick it on their expired plate to at least visually avoid suspicion. I had a current year decal swiped from my old work van that sat outside. Some people slice up their decals with a razor once their stuck on so that they won't come off in one piece.

[the Ferret]

Our decals have the lic plate number on them so the plate match the decal which should prevent theft. I would have never even thought of someone stealing your sticker lol

Yesterday I met up with a riding buddy from Wi that was traveling thru on his way to Va. I rode with him as far as Maysville KY before leaving him on the RT 9/10 AA Highway headed toward 64 in West Virginia

[peterbaron]

Our decals have the lic plate number on them so the plate match the decal which should prevent theft. I would have never even thought of someone stealing your sticker lol

Yesterday I met up with a riding buddy from Wi that was traveling thru on his way to Va. I rode with him as far as Maysville KY before leaving him on the RT 9/10 AA Highway headed toward 64 in West Virginia

Did he let you ride his Guzzi?

[Gone in 60]

Yeah, Ferret, what did you think of the Guzzi? A new dealer opened up near me recently, and I sat on a Mandello. It's a nice bike!

[the Ferret]

He offered to let me ride it, but I declined having ridden a bunch of Guzzi's in the past. It's certainly a looker. Rattly thing when you are sitting side by side at a light lol.

[alprider]

I hope you weren't hurt, alprider, when the dog went after the wheel of your Vultus.

dont worried,fortunately   i am/was ok and the dog after that....

[Cormanus]

Good.

[Whoops]

Our decals have the lic plate number on them so the plate match the decal which should prevent theft. I would have never even thought of someone stealing your sticker lol

Yesterday I met up with a riding buddy from Wi that was traveling thru on his way to Va. I rode with him as far as Maysville KY before leaving him on the RT 9/10 AA Highway headed toward 64 in West Virginia

Did he let you ride his Guzzi?

Pretty bikes, but there is something about having the cylinder heads sticking out on bikes like this and BMW's that make me nervous. My penchant to make unlikely mistakes would have me dropping them and needing a complete top end rebuild.