{"id":9023,"date":"2025-12-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/?p=9023"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:07:25","slug":"license-plate-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/license-plate-shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"License plate shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>No miles. Spent a little time at the mini-DMV in the courthouse complex to transfer the plate from the R 1200 GS to the R 90\/6. Have to, since I won&#8217;t be able to obey the vintage plate laws \u2013 I could probably get away with it like so many scofflaws that avoid paying property taxes by putting vintage plates on their old cars &amp; trucks, but I want to be on the up &amp; up and frankly, if I&#8217;m going to be riding the Airhead full time in 2025, I want my regular personalized plate on it. Total cost $2 and about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_R90_in-truck_w_310-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9024 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_R90_in-truck_w_310-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9024 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_R90_in-truck_w_310-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_R90_in-truck_w_310-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_R90_in-truck_w_310-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_R90_in-truck_w_310-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wes_R90_in-truck_w_310.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><i>My 1976 R 90\/6 in the back of a Dodge RAM pickup truck in the previous owner&#8217;s driveway, just before I hauled it from Arizona to Virginia. Beside it is a 2022 G 310 GS that belongs to the MOA.<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>One Year Later: <\/strong>Little did I know the pile of crap this plate transfer would unleash on my life. The clerk I dealt with marked the plate as &#8220;surrendered&#8221; instead of &#8220;transferred,&#8221; which of course I did not know until many months later when I got pulled over by a cop (while driving my car) because apparently I&#8217;m not diligent about using my turn signals. He said my plates &#8211; on my car, mind you &#8211; were &#8220;invalid&#8221; and I guess because I looked so surprised, he let me go with a warning and an admonition to get to DMV to get this cleared up. The problem wasn&#8217;t only with my bike&#8217;s plate, but also with my car&#8217;s plates, which WERE marked as &#8220;surrendered,&#8221; something I wouldn&#8217;t discover until October when I tried to renew them. I must have gotten a more savvy clerk when it came time to switch the plate back to my R 1200 GS, as when I double-checked my account online afterwards, it showed as correctly updated.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent a little time at the mini-DMV in the courthouse complex to transfer the plate from the R 1200 GS to the R 90\/6. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-riding-without-cruise-control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}