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Jun 30th, 2006, 05:14 AM
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#1 | | 200+ posts and climbing
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Galveston, Texas
Posts: 332 Interests: ridin my harley Occupation: constuction
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i was pulled over yesterday.......not gonna say for what....hanging head in shame..........what bothered the cop more than the infractions........was i had no motorcycle licence!!!!!........after a long lecture....and 2 warning tickets.......he let me go........my buddies.....smirkin....laughing pointing fingers at me.........i was hanging out with 5 riders.........only one.....had a real motorcycle licence.......the rest of us just had excuses.........wondering how many of us on here........dont have the right licence.......my ecuse...was i thought this licence covered it all............except big rigs!!!! dont use that one......... | 
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Jun 30th, 2006, 06:04 AM
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#2 | | Moderator Has posted 500+
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Liberty Hill Texas
Posts: 792 Model: 94 FXDS Dyna-Custom Interests: Scootin' & shootin'! Occupation: City Government / Administrator
| I've been riding for 20 years and no license here! | |
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Jun 30th, 2006, 06:17 AM
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#3 | | Has posted 500+
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 621
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I've been riding since the late sixties..got my licence..the mc endorsement and rode around for a number of years..and survived!! goodness knows how some days but most of the gals I dated weren't into bikes so I gave 'em up..the bikes not the gals..in retrospect not sure if that was the way to go but long legs, tight jeans..mmmm that's another story. I moved out here in Alberta and didn't take my motorcycle endorsement when I switched licences..and wouldn't you know it I got back into bikes and then had to get my licence all over. I aced the written and then promptly bombed on the skills test and truth be known it was the best thing that happened to me..I practiced for a month and the next time I took the test it was easy. I'm working on a course with the E-G. I have some slow speed u turns and stuff to work on...it'll come. No smirking from me..it may be a bit of a pain in the ass right now but it's gonna make you a better rider..it did that for me..go after your mc endorsement and don't look back | |
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Jun 30th, 2006, 04:38 PM
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#4 | | Has posted 500+
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 803 Model: 2004 Yamaha FJR1300 Interests: riding... Occupation: RN
| When I got out of the Army in '86 I turned my Texas driver's license (is there really such a thing?) into my California DMV to get my CA license when they said I had a motorcycle endorsement from when I left the state in '78. Wanted to know if I wanted to take that written exam too. What the heck..oh well..missed passing it by one question as I didn't study for it. I got home and discovered they spelled my name wrong on the license, so I went back to correct it. Thought..while I'm here I might as well take that dang mc written test again..passed it! It wasn't until '94 that I got back into motorcycles, but was **** glad I had to go back to the DMV that day in '86. Took the MSF course and thought it paid huge divedends in my thought process. Took the ERC course a couple of years later and was surprised I even learned more to save my neck in the future.
My friend Kim recently on my favorite ride (that I've missed the past two Summers due to school)..the Colorado 500, won the bid at their banquet auction to attend Freddie Spencer's course here at Las Vegas Speedway later this year. My worry is..at 5' tall at best..can she reach the ground sitting on a sportbike? She can barely get her feet on the ground on her new '06 Softtail Deluxe (shortest seatheight HD makes I believe)..which was lowered in the front. Hmmm..I'll be there to watch that one. | |
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Jun 30th, 2006, 06:25 PM
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#5 | | Moderator Has posted 500+
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 4,556
| i have had the endorsment since the mid 60's and kept it in all the different states i have lived in....sooooo are ya gonna let us in on the infractions ya got pulled for, TRG?????? 
chuck | |
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Jun 30th, 2006, 10:10 PM
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#6 | | Has posted 500+
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: lake jackson,tx
Posts: 912 Model: 03 883 XLC-CHOPPER Occupation: welder
| Got Mine About A Year Into Ride'n. When I Moved Here My Az. Lic. Is Good Till 2037(?) I'll Be 65, So I Still Have'nt Got A New One. Gee You Think Thell Want Me Too, Up To Date The Pic. I Did Pick Up A State I.d. For The Fish'n Purpose. Never Been Stopped But I'll Play The Snow Bird On Them. | |
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Jun 30th, 2006, 10:30 PM
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#7 | | Has posted 500+
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 834 Interests: Bikes, Boobs and Beer Occupation: Biker
| Yup, have always had the endorsement, I do know it doubles the price of my renewal. I think CDL licenses are a bit costly to renew. | |
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Jul 1st, 2006, 12:31 AM
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#8 | | Has posted 500+
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 803 Model: 2004 Yamaha FJR1300 Interests: riding... Occupation: RN
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Originally Posted by SPORSTERBOY Got Mine About A Year Into Ride'n. When I Moved Here My Az. Lic. Is Good Till 2037(?) I'll Be 65..... | I've heard AZ gives you your license for a couple of decades..strange law (guess they don't take dementia as a problem later in life  )..just kidding. | |
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Jul 1st, 2006, 06:55 AM
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#9 | | Has posted 500+
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 621
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Originally Posted by SK I've heard AZ gives you your license for a couple of decades..strange law (guess they don't take dementia as a problem later in life )..just kidding. | huh!!! wazzat?  | |
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Jul 1st, 2006, 07:19 AM
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#10 | | 200+ posts and climbing
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Galveston, Texas
Posts: 332 Interests: ridin my harley Occupation: constuction
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My buddy has a hopped up V- Rod, wich he rides like an old lady.....all day long.....just puttin around on it......it was just killing me......later in the after noon....we were ribbing him about cobwebs building up in the bike. One of my buddies spouts off let Christopher ride it........he's old mx'er......so we swop bike for few.....and I am taking it easy getting to know the bike...a few burst here in there........the thing wheelies really nice.........so where at the last stop light......then is is just 11 miles of really nice hiway to my house........everbody revving there engine......like its a race to my house........light turns green....i'm smoking the tire and riding a wheelie at the same time.......Little did i know that there where 2 cops tucked away shootin the **** with each other........as i rode by them with the front wheel in the air!!!!!!!! i look back and all my buddies are just puttin.......and the one cop is now inbetween me and them.........so i just pulled over and waited........told the cop.....i was sorry for acting the fool on his hiway......as my buddies were pulling up from behind........just smiling......the cop asking for insurance regerstation......i cant....my bikes over there wiht those guys........then he say's gotta licence.........and that were the lectutre begun.........those guys got me good.............but pay back...o ya payback is bitter sweet........i was thinking maybe black shoe polish......on the handle bar grips..........just kiddin but i will even........lol
someday chuck i will grow up........and act responseable like real men are suppose to do......NOT!!!! i am that person who skids up to the grave.......going what a ride!!!!!!: | |
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Jul 1st, 2006, 03:06 PM
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#11 | | Moderator Has posted 500+
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 4,556
| hehehehe...pretty cool story. ya know, my ol lady says if i ever grow up it will be a miricle!!!!! im a 20 year old kid in a grey bearded body!!!
i bet it was a fun ride tho..... 
chuck | |
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Jul 2nd, 2006, 01:50 PM
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#12 | | 200+ posts and climbing
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Galveston, Texas
Posts: 332 Interests: ridin my harley Occupation: constuction
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 ya chuck........my ole lady declares herself single........and adds me as an dependent............with child care being more than 1500$............on our taxs.......i can relate..........after all the bike is my baby............hanging head in shame........shaking head sideways............. | |
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Jul 3rd, 2006, 10:38 AM
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#13 | | Has posted 500+
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 1,989
| Funny how'd you get insurance if you don't have a license, I thought they matched those things up? Maybe not.
Still its not that big a deal to get a license, take the written and ridden exams and you're done no big deal, no big bucks here either.
Or take a 2 day course and turn in the certificate, it's a good course, you can take beginner or advanced. WTH anyway you get to ride and learn for a day, never ever had anyone say they came away from a good MSF course and didn't learn something.
Maybe someones trying to tell ya something LOL
I'd have said to the officers, hey check those guys licenses I dont thing they have them either, we're a baddd azzz biker gang! LOL
You should make the guys go with you to get the course. Be and interesting weekend for sure! | 
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Jul 3rd, 2006, 12:43 PM
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#14 | | 200+ posts and climbing
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Galveston, Texas
Posts: 332 Interests: ridin my harley Occupation: constuction
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i could see me and my buds.......showing up for the safety course..........
one buddy setting up a X-mas tree......for staging..........the other buddy......setting up a beer consession.......other buddy ...pushing the instructor out of the way.......telling him.......he's got it all wrong...........and me........i'm just keeping look out for cops.........
all kidding aside..........the harley dealership i go to.......has a course set up......where you can practice........follow the yellow line so to speak..............wich i run through evry time i am there........ just because its there.........now it is like a time trial.............but i remember the fiirst few times.......... that little course broke me of putting my foot down at low speeds................  | |
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Jul 14th, 2006, 11:49 AM
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#15 | | 200+ posts and climbing
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 464 Model: 1999 Fatboy Interests: Bikes, Cars, Woodworking, etc. Occupation: Jack of all trades and master of none
| I've had my MC license since I could drive. I took my test on a 1982 Suzuki GS1100EZ. It was the fastest production bike available back then. The cop said "if you can make it here on that, you shouldn't have a problem". He didn't even watch me while I went through the course.
On the other hand, I have a buddy that is a car dealer. He got his bike as a trade in on a car. He's had it for about four or five years but never got a MC license. My brother has been riding for about four years now too and still has a permit. My closest riding bud has had a MC license forever but recently had it suspended for 60 days for being a habitual offender. I told him we were goin' too fast through the center of town.
The last ticket he got was when three of us were speeding through the center of town and the blues came on. He pulled over, I went left and my other buddy went right. That'll teach him to ride in the back of the pack. LOL! | |
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Jul 14th, 2006, 03:30 PM
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#16 | | Has posted 500+
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 1,989
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Originally Posted by maxpower_hd .................
The last ticket he got was when three of us were speeding through the center of town and the blues came on. He pulled over, I went left and my other buddy went right. That'll teach him to ride in the back of the pack. LOL! | I know I"ll be riding in front with you guys LOL | |
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Jul 21st, 2006, 06:22 AM
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#17 | | More than 100 posts!
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Kapolei, HI
Posts: 108 Model: 2006 FLTRI Interests: Motorcycles and computers Occupation: US Military, Law Enforcement
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Had my license endorsed since I started riding in 93. I'm now stationed here in Charleston, SC. Here you can go your entire life on a permit. Just have to renew it annually (i think). | |
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Jul 21st, 2006, 11:28 AM
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#18 | | 200+ posts and climbing
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Nomad, currently the Blue Ridge Mountains
Posts: 401 Model: 2006 FXDI SuperGlide Interests: Camping, fishing, admirer of beautiful women, fast motorcycles, and smooth whiskey Occupation: Writer illustrator
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This year I had to take the test and all. Got a MC endorsement, the whole ball of wax. Never took a test before. Got my license back when I was 15. My uncle took me to the DMV pointed out his buddy and gave me a $20.00 bill folded in my hand. I introduced myself, shook the guys hand he handed me a paper test and said "yes, yes, yes, no, yes, right, " etc as I moved down checking answers. I was supposed to be 16 but he just put it down I was born a year earlier and I walked out with the license. Always renewed it and never let it lapse and had always had a Louisiana license, no matter where I was until this spring. it was about to expire and I was fixing to buy the new bike her in NC. So I had to take the ****ed test...and aced it I made 95 on the cage section and 100 on the bike section and walked out with my first totally legal drivers license....*shrugs* times change.
Ride Free..... | |
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Jul 21st, 2006, 06:42 PM
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#19 | | 200+ posts and climbing
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Mankato, MN
Posts: 381 Interests: Motorcycles, Mountain bikes, guns, Hunting, fishing
| I've got a Class A CDL with all the endorsements except hazerdous materials, which I let drop. Had my motorcycle license since I was 18...had aced the written and only lost one point in the field test for killing my bike during the emergency stop test....faster with the brakes than I was with the clutch.
It costs me $55 every four years to renew all my licenses. As far as I'm concerned there is no excuse not to have one if you ride. It doesn't take long to do the written or field test; and if you can't pass either of them, I'd rather not have you on the road with me. | |
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Jul 21st, 2006, 08:21 PM
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#20 | | 200+ posts and climbing
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Nomad, currently the Blue Ridge Mountains
Posts: 401 Model: 2006 FXDI SuperGlide Interests: Camping, fishing, admirer of beautiful women, fast motorcycles, and smooth whiskey Occupation: Writer illustrator
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I hear what you're saying seahag...but wonder if the whole test thing means much really. Any idea of how many drunks on the road that aced a driving test? I am a firm believer in the motorcycle safety courses, have take both the basic and advanced, but as with most things the government is a lot more interested in getting a slice of your paycheck than they are in actually doing anything to make things better and safer.
Here in NC, you don't even have to speak/read English to take the test and get a license.....and none of the roadsigns I have seen are in Spanish. But as long as the money is from the US mint....you are good to go.
Ride Free...... | |
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