California Motorcycle registration fee skyrockets.

Your lucky here in Queensland Australia we pay $230 for solo rego and $450 for pillion on the back, got my Land Rover rego to pay just before xmas and its $940, our GOVT is broke and who pays for it, gets very expensive here when you have 2 cars and 2 bikes on the road, you can get club rego on a classic car but none for the bikes, we are just being ripped off here so really you are lucky, we also get taxed heavy on our fuel and food and beer, really everything in life we do here is taxed heavy.

Ashley
 
Minority groups become targets for politicians. You cannot afford to be identifiabley different.
 
I noticed the increase too, but it doesn't seem very consistent over the different bikes I have registered. The fee for one of my MK3s went up from $82 to $92, but the other MK3 went down from $89 to $88. Renewal fees for the other four registered bikes are from $0 to $40 higher. All are in the $80 to $110. The differences might have something to do with when in 2017 the renewals came due.

Ken
 
Yep, IIRC, the hike took effect a couple of weeks ago. I have too many old cars and old bikes that would be inexpensive to own but for registration and insurance. I seems like I'm writing checks to the Dept of Motor Vehicles every month.

The irritating thing is that the insurance is per vehicle instead of per operator. I have four old cars and four old motorcycles, only one of the cars is a daily driver. The rest are hobby or arguably collectible vehicles that I bought years ago and never sold and which I ride or drive occasionally - IF they are in running shape!

I can only drive them one at a time.

I can't expose the insurance company to risk on all eight, only one. Insurance should be based on demographics, driving record and what types of vehicles you have, not on each vehicle.
 
An old friend retired recently nfrom a major insurance company. He explained that in the late century, they made so much money off the money that passed through their hands they were happy nto pay $1.25 in claims for every dollar in premiums. Those conditions no longer exist, so they are going back to customers for more permium money. One way to get that is the inequity of your situation.
 
xbacksideslider said:
The irritating thing is that the insurance is per vehicle instead of per operator. I have four old cars and four old motorcycles, only one of the cars is a daily driver. The rest are hobby or arguably collectible vehicles that I bought years ago and never sold and which I ride or drive occasionally - IF they are in running shape!

I can only drive them one at a time.

I can't expose the insurance company to risk on all eight, only one. Insurance should be based on demographics, driving record and what types of vehicles you have, not on each vehicle.
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Yep! No lawsuit was ever filed to recover damages from a motor vehicle, so why are they insured, not the driver?

Here in Texas, one can get around the insurance companies, if one can afford to. Texas law does not require insurance, but only requires proof of financial responsibility. Thus one could, if one had $150K lying around, to post a bond. But before ya'll rush to Texas, be aware such a bond is low hanging fruit to any one you might be involved with in a minor wreck.

Slick
 
DMV in California is their cash cow. People need to rebel and stop registering their cars and bikes. I non op everything and take my chances on a quick ride. Screw the government. They are all leeches on society. Just like the politicians, lawyers, bankers, IRS, property tax man, PG&E, cable companies, water district, and so on. Fight back.

DATA: There are some 36 million vehicles registered in CA. This includes cars, trucks, motorcycles, and trailers. I could not find a budgetary item giving the total income from this racket. Trucks are also charged a vehicle weight amount.
 
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A machine shop friend of mine here in CA decided he had enough cars and trucks to warrant getting a dealers license so he would not have to register all of them. He constructed a small office space in his shop and put a phone in there with a table and chairs. This was a dealer requirement. He got his license and therefore did not need to register all his vehicles. Well, he got stopped by the cops so many times it was unreal. None of the cops knew anything about the specifics of a dealer license and all wrote him tickets. He had to go to court numerous times and even explain the law to the judges. He got so fed up with the hassle that he gave up his dealer license. This was a good ten years ago to boot.
 
You can't beat the system, no matter how hard you try, if you have a win they change the rules, Goverments get us all in det by spending more money than they have with bad decisions but we all end up paying for their bad mistakes and the longer they stay in power the more it cost all of us unless your rick.

Ashley
 
When I lived in the UK as an adult (late 1950's to 1968), their insurance system recognised that the insured person could only ride/drive one vehicle at a time. They had one type of policy that insured one person to drive certain types of vehicles. It only covered damages caused to other people and their property with optional extra coverage for fire and theft. It was fairly inexpensive. If you wanted coverage for damage to your vehicles when you were driving them, it got expensive.

It has probably chaged out of all recognition these days - I haven't been back for about 12 years, and I only drive rental cars when I'm there.
 
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