So do the 250-350-450-500 twins have progressively longer strokes as displacements increase? Is that why they don't fit into smaller frames, because each one has taller cylinders than the last?
Mkramer, I wish I could use a service like ITS, but our Attorney General has expressed the opinion that titles that get laundered through those services are not lawful here. I'm an attorney, and I really like my practice. Since there is an opinion out there that suggests these transactions are not honest, I can't risk my license by using them. For all the jokes people tell about dishonest attorneys, all the attorneys I know are vigilant about never doing anything that is even slightly questionable, and I join them in this case. That bike is only worth a few hundred bucks, and just not worth risking disbarrment.
Our local law creates a sad and wasteful situation when it comes to motorcycles. Our winters in Wyoming are so long that people often park their bikes for six months and more. If they forget (or don't know any better) and leave gas in their float chambers over the winter, they get to spend a couple hundred bones on a carb rebuild in the spring before they can ride again. After a bike gets to be six or seven years old, they start to question the wisdom of spending a couple hundred on a bike that is not worth much more than that. Lots of bikes then wind up sitting in the barn or in the backyard for years, unridden, and unregistered, and in my (college) town, they are abandoned when students graduate. The landlords need to get them out of the yard, but have no titles. I could buy bikes all day long that need little more than carb cleaning, but without a title, and no legal way for anyone except the previous registered owner to get a title, they are worthless except for off-road use. I'm glad my CL450 is useful off road, but I'd like it even more if I could ride on the street too.
The other option that some people use is to "store" the untitled bike at a friend's house, then have the friend file a storage lien. They can get a title that way, but again, it's too fishy a practice for me, since it is really just as much a sham "storage contract" as the ITS transaction is a sham "sale". Either one results in ripping off the real owner if the bike was stolen. The problem is, we have no way under our law to get a title for a bike that is actually abandoned.
Hmmm . . . here I sit at my desk, drafting legislation to change the law regarding casino nights run by non-profits. Why couldn't I draft a bill to change the law regarding motorcycle titles? Why didn't I think of that! (DOH, I did!)
