CA Bay Area. Seeking Information on Motorcycle Inspections

[wjbertrand]

Unless it IS a salvage bike there would be no inspection requirement, at least not in California. It’s the declaration of total loss by the insurance company that triggers this. Not sure if a period of non-operation would trigger this as well. In my case besides lights signals and horn, the tech also visually inspected the brakes and pumped the levers a few times.

Was it a salvage title? If not then a simple brake/light five minute inspection will suffice. Sorry for your $$$ loss.

 

[Danger]

This was admitedly about 10 years ago. Inspection was done by Santa Barbara Motorsports in Goleta, CA. Don’t know the tech’s name. I was not aware that anything changed with these inspections.

Thanks for the information. Apparently lots have changed.