Around here lately if you get pulled over and don't have the M/C endorsement on your license your bike gets impounded and you go to jail.
Soooooooo, what part of Russia do you live in? Jail time?
....Larry
I live in Georgia, USA not Georgia , Russia. You don't necessarily have to do jail time unless you don't pay the fine, but they do jail you and make you post bond. Here your "learners permits" are good for 6 months and are renewable multiple times. You can't ride passengers, ride at night, or ride on the highway/freeway. I never got my motorcycle endorsement when I moved from Ca. to Ga. and rode 30 years without one. I took my test on a borrowed CB900 that I had all of a ride around the block to get used to it on the way to the test. German woman was the test agent and also had comments about whether it was the right bike to test on. I passed having missed a couple of points on a zero stop to 20mph swerve between some cones and then a "U" turn back to the line. I hit the white line a couple of times because the bike seemed top heavy compared to what I am used to. She was surprised I passed because she assumed I was a noob until I told her I wasn't new to this, been riding for 43 years. You could see in er eyes her disdain for me riding without an endorsement for so long. When I went in to renew my license and get the MC endorsement they found a warrant for failure to appear from 28 years earlier and suspended my license at that point. I spent 3 days trying to clear it up. They said I had a ticket for "too fast for cionditions" in Fla. before I ever held a Ga. license so I couldn't understand how they could suspend my Ga. privilege when I didn't even have a Ga. license. I still don't remember ever getting a ticket back them. I don't remember even being in the area of Fla. when they said it happened. "Too fast for conditions" usually involves and accident of some sort (either you ran into someone in the rain or drove off the roadway), neither of these do I remember happening. Apparantly after 3 days of searching the archives because Fla didn't even show the offense on their computer records they found the ticket and it showed I didn't handle it by the due date so it went to a FTA warrant that I cleared up a few months later. But Ga. had already been notified of the FTA because apparantly I had given a Ga. address at the time but had a Ca. license. Starting this year to renew your license you physically have to go to the DMV with SS card, birth certificate, a bill with your current address and your old license. Process takes about 3 hours average. My license at this point was expired (it was my birthday). I recently had found my original SS card from when I was 16 (now 60). Now that I needed it I couldn't find it anywhere. So I had to go to the SS office to get a new one. I gave them my expired license and birth certificate. New sayed they couldn't give me one with an expired license. I said I can't renew my license without the SS card (#$%* goobermint bureaucracy). Had to have something from a list they had (passport,etc.) All I had that would satisfy them was medical documents showing my SS and address. So I had to go to the hospital to get my cancer records and them back to the SS office for them to process my application. In and out in about 15 minutes but they have to mail you the card, so another week wait while on a expired license. Get the SS card, go back to the DMV to get all sorted. turning the application and am asked to have a seat while they do the back ground check from every state you held a license in. I thought WTF when they asked on the app to list every state you have ever held a license in and the license number from that state. I have held 4 state licenses over 46 years and I'm supposed to remember the numbers, ya right. So they run your name through the system that's when they found the warrant from 28 years ago. Keeping in mind how many times I have renewed my Ga. license over the last 30 years, how many times I have been ticketed and the arrest for reckless and all of a sudden they find this 28 year old ticket. So now I am suspended until I clear that up which was another 3 day ordeal dealing between Fla and the DMV headquarters. Ga. refused to budge and made me pay for a $35 reinstatement fee. I am ready now to pay all the fees and renew the MC endorsement. I mention I am going to take the riding test soon so she tells me if I pay all the fees now and then take the test next week I will have to pay all the fees again to renew everything, WTF, what a money making racket. I say screw that give me all my paper work back and I'll just wait till I take the test to renew everything. She' says you do understand you are suspended and I can't recommend you do that. I said you can't stop me, see you later. Finally took the riding test 3 days later and went to pay the fees. You can get a renewal for 5 or 8 years, but if you are 59 you can only get one for 5 years. At this pont I don't want anything to do with the DMV for the rest of my life and was pissed I missed the deadline for 59. She says well the rule is actually 59-1/2 and I was now 59 and 1 week, so I skated on that by the skin of my teeth and am now completely legit. Did I mention I hate going to the DMV.
Oops, sorry , didn't realize I had gotten so carried away with this post. Just another chapter in the book I should write.
