Should i buy a motorcycle before i know how to ride?
Most people buy a motorcycle and learn to ride. You can take a course, like the MSF course (Motorcycle Safety Foundation) and they supply the bike. But that course doesn't teach you to ride, you learn that yourself, by riding. The course teaches you some important safety habits to keep you from killing yourself while you learn. You want to get a small-to-medium-sized bike to learn on, a used bike. A 75 CB550, that was a great bike in its time but it's really OLD and unless someone has lovingly rebuilt/restored it, it will give you a lot of trouble. That might be the way to learn bike mechanics, by buying a 35 year old bike and fixing everything on it that needs fixing. You will spend a lot of money though, and there are some parts you might have trouble finding. It's not a practical bike, cost wise. A better idea would be a newer Japanese bike, something old enough to be depreciated but new enough that you can still get parts. This would be like 5-10 years old. Something between 500 and 650cc, small enough to be easy to manage, easy to learn on, but big enough that you can cruise at highway speeds. Learning to ride is not that hard. It's not like learning to play a musical instrument. 8^) If you can drive a manual shift car and ride a bicycle, you could probably just hop on a motorcycle and ride it.
Do police cars have cameras that automatically scan license plates which trigger a alarm to pull you over?
Mobile Automated License Plate reader (ALPR) systems are expensive, at about $20,000 per vehicle. They’re also fairly fragile, as they use four or more cameras, usually mounted on the light bar or the bumpers. If some yahoo comes along and bashes the cameras, that’s a chunk of money. So, most police fleets have only a few of these vehicles, if they have any at all.The older systems use an onboard database of “hot list” license plates. These are plates of vehicles known to be stolen, or that are driven by people with active warrants, or who have suspended or revoked drivers licenses. The officer operating the vehicle updates the list on a flash drive before he starts work. When the system scans a plate that is on the hot list, the system beeps to alert the driver. He sees a captured photo of the license plate alongside the license plate letters/numbers in text. It’s important to do a manual comparison, as these systems are prone to false positives.If the actual plate matches the wanted information, the officer either tries to stop the car, or directs another officer to do so.The newer systems query online databases like NCIC in real time, so that the onboard “hot list” is just a backup.These systems have made it possible to apprehend far more car thieves and scofflaw drivers than was possible before.They can also be unpopular. The CHP has used ALPR-equipped vehicles to identify drivers who are required to register their cars in California, but who have failed to do so. You are generally required to register your car in the state within 30 days of arrival. However, California vehicle registration fees are considerably higher than those in most other states, so people put it off as long as they can. CHP will put ALPR-equipped cars monitoring feeder freeways, and once they have documented the same car going the same route multiple times over a 30-day period, they’ve got you. People don’t like to get got.
Is it possible to change the odometer reading on a car mechanically? If not, what mechanisms are in place to prevent that from happening?
My knowledge ends at about 2004, so new cars may have more safeguards. You can only lower the odometer reading on a mechanical odometer, and it usually requires taking it apart, because there is a often a ratchet inside that prevents simply driving it in reverse. You can increase the reading on a digital odometer by providing a pulse, but it only up counts, the pulses have no direction.You can try to over run the mileage eeprom register, and it might result in zeroing the mileage and counting up again. If display reads 999,999 maximum, then you can run the pulses at the maximum the speedometer can detect them,. I tested one from a late 80's gm car and it was around 600mph, so it would take over a month, and then who knows? You might end up with an odometer that says 999,999 and goes no further. You also might exceed the eeprom writes, and end up with who knows what number. Imagine it's a lease car, and you owe $.25/mile on 900,000 miles. You will have to sell your house.Anyway, it's all illegal, unless you are replacing the odometer and you are matching the actual mileage, so don't do it. Plus, mileage is recorded when regestering, dealer service, and smog checks, so it's easy to get caught. --Karl
Do cops really check the license plate of the car in front of them?
As has been mentioned already, anything that seems "hinky" to me will make me run a plate.And its interesting that as cops get more experience, the more acute their sixth sense becomes at detecting things that seem wrong.In this state it's mandatory to have a front and back license plate on your car. But as taxes and yearly registration fees are very high here, it is not unusual to see a car with just one plate. The cop knows that the other plate is most likely on another vehicle the driver owns but he doesn't want to pay taxes on both cars so he takes the chance of getting caught.We also see a lot of "fictious plates." That's actually a misnomer, because to the police it means the license plate isn't registered to that car and not that the plate is not a genuine license plate.In many states when a license plate is run and it belongs on another vehicle it sends up a red flag that the occupants may have committed a felony (or are planning to.)Criminals don't want to leave a license plate on a car that will lead police back to them, so they steal a plate and use it instead.A felony traffic stop for a driver can be very scary if you aren't expecting it.Several cruisers show up, your car is lit up to blind you and you will be ordered to exit your car with hands up and you ultimately find that you are face down on the ground getting handcuffed.But even "typical" traffic stops can turn FUBAR on a dime, so it's always a good idea to be completely legal.
How does somebody register a dirt bike without a bill of sale?
"This is a tricky one. I'm asking this question for my brother: About a year ago he impulsively bought a dirt bike down in southern California after a night of debauchery. Admittedly he was not in the right frame of mind to be making sound decisions the morning after, so he didn't really make sure that everything was in order before heading back home to northern California. After letting his now ex-girlfriend use it for a year, he took it back and wants to sell it. Problem: he got the pink slip from the guy but no bill of sale and he never did get around to registering it the whole year he's had it. He has no idea how to contact the guy who sold it to him anymore and has no info at all beside the pink slip. The DMV said no way they could register it and they wouldn't give him any info about the bike based on the VIN. The only thing he was able to figure out was that the last owner was actually an insurance company and they released it to a repair shop. He called the repair shop and they have no record of it, of course. So now he is stuck with a dirt bike that he can't prove he bought, no name to use on a bill of sale, no one to contact and the DMV refuses to give any alternatives or options. Isn't there anything he can do? Does the bike just cease to exist as far as California DMV is concerned? There has to be away around this issue, some form he can submit? What if he just lost the bill of sale, that must happen all the time, what do people do in that case??"
What are some slang terms used among police officers?
The most derogatory terms for the bad guys and citizens who are just pains in the rectum:A.H. = Adam Henry (A-dam H-enry) If you don’t get it…..sometimes you will hear it as “Jack Hole”…..now what starts with an “A” that ends with HOLE ?RICHARD CRANIUM= What starts with a “D” and is a nickname for Richard ? What is the non-medical layman’s term for the Cranium ? Do these clues HEAD you in the right direction ?
Is the california permit test hard?
The written test REQUIRES reading the DMV handbook. Most of the questions are taken verbatim from there. The knowledge gained from the Driver Education course will make you a safer driver - like what to do in specific circumstances, proper braking distances and right-of-way laws. If you've paid attention in the Driver Ed class, you have a much greater chance of passing the written test because it's common sense. At last check, most teens are just developing their "common sense" quotient! Most teens that gloss over the Driver Ed. fail the first written - as one of my students did last week. Also, be sure to talk the sample tests on the DMV website. WWW.DMV.CA.GOV
Can a person have separate license cards for a car and a bike? Is it an offense?
The Driving Institute is not a legal entity. The RTO is.A driving license taken anywhere in India is valid through out the country and you can get it transferred to your current place of residence.My sister did that with her license which was originally issued in Bihar. When the time came for renewal, she was staying in Bangalore, hence applied to the RTO in Bangalore and got a new license from RTO, Bangalore.You can do the same and then apply for 4 wheeler license, or better check with RTO if it is possible to surrender your old license and get license for both two wheeler and 4 wheeler in one.You should not have to take new test for two wheeler. But that is subject to the RTO.Just check with them.