Where to keep Registration and Insurance?

[barbagris]

On the odd occasion I actually carry the bike papers with me - I use IKEA freezer bags. Double Zip-Lock.
I usually only ever carry duplicates. LEO's here can see everything online anyway. What I do is not per se legal, but accepted as plain common sense.

 

[slydog75]

On the odd occasion I actually carry the bike papers with me - I use IKEA freezer bags. Double Zip-Lock.
I usually only ever carry duplicates. LEO's here can see everything online anyway. What I do is not per se legal, but accepted as plain common sense.

I once got a ticket in PA because we forgot to sign our registration card, so...

 

[barbagris]

I once got a ticket in PA because we forgot to sign our registration card, so...

We have no need to sign......
LEOS can look for the number, VIN, Picture ID of owner, consult national insurance database as well as all driver details.
Overseas, well then it makes sense to have it all. Thankfully cops here do not jump for the Heckler&Koch quite so readily.

 

[Mighty Mouse]

In my wallet. No big deal as it folds in nicely and is very thin.

 

[Frosty Rider]

Keep the ownership and insurance in my wallet, if bike or car gets stolen, if they get pulled over, go ahead and try and prove it is yours, it isn't ideal but it will make things more of pain for them if they can't produce it on the spot

 

[Joesmoe]

I once got a ticket in PA because we forgot to sign our registration card, so...

I was in Maine last year and saw three riders pulled over by LEO.

I happened to run into them as we both stopped at the next rest stop.

The cop had told them their hanger bars are illegal in Maine. No tickets written in that case.

This BS was a clear case of cop profiling - something I suspect all of us have either experienced, or been eyed even if we weren't aware in the event.

 

[Boog]

I was in Maine last year and saw three riders pulled over by LEO.

I happened to run into them as we both stopped at the next rest stop.

The cop had told them their hanger bars are illegal in Maine. No tickets written in that case.

This BS was a clear case of cop profiling - something I suspect all of us have either experienced, or been eyed even if we weren't aware in the event.

I was profiled a couple of years ago on I95 northbound heading back to work. Deputy used the excuse to pull me over that I was going 85MPH. Such a sorry excuse to pull a bike over on a dang toll road no less...

 

[Joesmoe]

@Boog I had the same thing on the Dulles Toll Road.

Guy was nice enough - did not admit to what it was, but didn't ticket me either.

The "85" bit is mean -- being a statutory violation Virginia, with mandatory court appearance, and so hard to fight. I've seen cops in court claim, "Yes, the radar was calibrated..." and some gobbledygook, and the judge moves right on to lecture the defendent.

 

[Mighty Mouse]

I was in Maine last year and saw three riders pulled over by LEO.

I happened to run into them as we both stopped at the next rest stop.

The cop had told them their hanger bars are illegal in Maine. No tickets written in that case.

This BS was a clear case of cop profiling - something I suspect all of us have either experienced, or been eyed even if we weren't aware in the event.

How is that 'cop profiling"? If they were pulled over for a law on the books such as handlebar grips over armpit level then how is it profiling. He let them go with a warning so all is good. In California this law was just recently changed so the grips can be over armpit level. Society as a whole always uses the 'cops pulled me over for' (fill in reason/excuse here). If the handlebars were too high then they were too high if not then you have a valid argument. Also, there are always two sides to the story. (Still your bestie,MM)

 

[Joesmoe]

@Mighty Mouse - good point - did you check Maine law ? I did, and the law in Maine that I could find - says handlebars may be no higher than shoulder height, and these three bikers were within that requirement - hence the profiling supposition.

Still, you are correct -- reality has many facets -- and I at least, find myself in trouble too often when I ass-u-me have all the relevant information.