:holysheep: another story, this really happened on 7-21-11, yesterday
the state I live in you have to get your bike/vehical inspected every 1-2 years depending on odd and even years, this year I got 2 year tags, with that said you must have and pass a motor vehical inspection to get your vehical tagged. Over the past 10 years of owning my Harley Fatboy I had always taken it to a Harley Davidson dealership, but this year due to the 99-105 degree outside temps I decided to take it to the nearest state vehical inspection station to save time and the nearest Harley dealership is about 30 miles from home and you have to bring the bike in the night before, they inspect the next day and like any other dealership, they hunt down anything on the bike to get more $$$
well I should have seen it coming when I entered the station, both inpectors could barely speak any english, they looked like the last time they had a bath or wore clean clothes was maybe in the year of 2009.... also in my state the qualified ??? inspector needs to drive the vehical, that was not going to happen w/my bike, I said no way, once that was resolved the inspection started... then the minute I turned my back I turned around and this guy is getting ready to jam a 4 foot steel rod up my Vance & Hines exhaust pipes.... any bike owner knows that Vance & Hines chrome pipes run about $1000-$1400 bucks... I paid $1250 for mine...I yelled at the inspectors that if they jam that rod up my pipes, I'll take it and jam it up their a^ses... they were trying to say " we check baffles" I said to them " if you knew anything about motorcycles, Vance & Hines pipes have no baffles" btw stock pipes are baffled, many bikers will punch out the baffles to make thier exhaust pipes sound like Vance & Hines... punched out baffles are illegal in most states..... anyway after standing there in 100 degree heat for 30 minutes while these 2 clowns were trying to destroy my pipes I said "thats it", I'm out of here.... they said $10 for the inspection, I said no way, they said we turn you into state if no pay, I said "do it, I don't care cause you can bet I'll be turning you into the state as well", they said no no no, we give state sticker, we get now for you, you no pay..... during this time there was 3 other customers waiting to get thier vehicals inspected as well.... kinda funny as I was pulling away on my Fatboy, I noticed that those 3 customers were leaving as well.....
lesson learned, take your bike to the dealership