DualSporting a Kawasaki KLX 300R

[tomcycle]

September 2009

May of you may remember that I dual-sported a KLX 300R earlier this year, some of you may not. You may have wondered what happened to that bike? Its a long story that I like to save over a few :hb:but the short version is. I went to register the bike after doing all the modifications and jumped through all the hoops to find out the bike was reported stolen out of Alberta.

So after saying to myself "never will I do this again, I will buy a bike with registration"

It turned out that one of the DSBC members here caught me on the rebound, he had a beautiful KLX300R for sale. What could I say? I already missed the other 300. So I said yes and bought it. I already had all the parts to make it street legal, so lets do it again:clap:

Here are a few pics of the bike

 

[tomcycle]

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After some months riding with a plate from another bike I decided it was time to get this bike registered and insured

No big deal the bike needed a proper wiring harness for all the lighting that only took 2 people that knew what they were doing 9 hours 4.5 each, that does not include the beer afterwards:TTT:

Next was to moung a couple of DOT tires, I had an old Perelli MT21 that came off the old 300 that was a reject from JJ, perfect for the rear. While doing some work at Western Powersports one of the guys showed me the cheapy DOT Exella tires, right on for the front and only 49.00 each, so I bought a couple of extras.:woohoo:

Oh yea, had to mount a chain guard

Ready for inspection:hf:

Mechanic looks at my front tire and shakes his head and sez "that tires not dot" I sez yup he sez nope. anyhow after lots of disscusion he calls Motor Vehicles and we get the OK

Look at this tire does it not look DOT to you



Finally after 24 hours I get my PASS on the inspection:bliss:

 

[tomcycle]

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Now for the hard part

Getting the bike registered with ICBC

Its around noon and I head to my local ICBC agent here in Fleetwood.

I have all the paperwork I was told to have

Bill of sale from the guys I bought the bike from

Bill of sale from the previous owner

Inspection Report

That should do it right

WRONG

First time thru ICBC flat out refused to register it, they claim its a dirt bike and cant be registered.

Second attempt, ICBC want the agent to visually check the serial number and check for a transport Canada decal, in the mean time they will check into this further on their end

Third attempt, ICBC sez seems all the paperwork is in order and just have to do a registration search, while doing the search we loose the phone connection:hr:

Fourth attempt try to connect to the original contact doing the registration search, he has gone home so we have to start again:shoot:

Fifth attempt ICBC want to see all the paperwork so we have to fax them everything to date, and the contact will take it to her superior for instructions:mad3:

Sixth attempt ICBC seem to be happy with the paperwork ..........but they want more. now they want my receipts for the items I installed to make the bike legal. This might be a problem as most of the stuff I installed was off the first bike, anyhow I find two receipts for recently purchased switches and lights

Seventh attempt ICBC now want the recipt for the speedometer and tires, I finally loose it and now asked to leave the office and am to return when I have calmed down. :gaah:

It 5 pm almost 5 hours since I started this, ICBC finally accepted the paperwork they had and was willing to give me my registration.

Finally Done:hb:

Next time I am going to by a bike that already has registration:?

Tom

 

[old trials guy]

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Sounds all too familiar, the rules seem to get made up as they go along. As long as you can produce the papers they ask for they eventually run out of reasons to say no.

otg

 

[bajaman]

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It still looks like a nice bike Tom,even with all the BS you had to go though with ICBC.

:tup:

 

[kaos]

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interesting,i have heard the whole ''rum'' type bike registration was now not going to happen anymore(as of august)and that was from a licenced dealer whom does inspections

 

[spc]

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This summer ICBC sent out a memo to all their brokers telling them to stop registering RUMs. However, if you find a broker that ignores this memo you can still get a RUM registered. For now.

 

[skidmark43]

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tomcycle wrote:

...asked to leave the office and am to return when I have calmed down. :gaah:

Great visual; thanks for that.

 

[bajaman]

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spc wrote:

This summer ICBC sent out a memo to all their brokers telling them to stop registering RUMs. However, if you find a broker that ignores this memo you can still get a RUM registered. For now.

Let's just not open this can of worm's again:gaah:....Tom found a broker that would insure the

bike,power to him...enjoy the ride Tom.:woohoo:

 

[spc]

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bajaman wrote:

spc wrote:

This summer ICBC sent out a memo to all their brokers telling them to stop registering RUMs. However, if you find a broker that ignores this memo you can still get a RUM registered. For now.

Let's just not open this can of worm's again:gaah:....Tom found a broker that would insure the

bike,power to him...enjoy the ride Tom.:woohoo:

I was replying to the comment that kaos made about RUM bikes.

 

[bajaman]

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spc wrote:

bajaman wrote:

spc wrote:

This summer ICBC sent out a memo to all their brokers telling them to stop registering RUMs. However, if you find a broker that ignores this memo you can still get a RUM registered. For now.

Let's just not open this can of worm's again:gaah:....Tom found a broker that would insure the

bike,power to him...enjoy the ride Tom.:woohoo:

I was replying to the comment that kaos made about RUM bikes.

Relax.....:hb:

 

[tonybalony]

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if your bag of receipts have oil and grease on them,they don't look very close at them-you and all your buddies could use the same ones!