blog by: Dale

December 31, 2007

Bicycle License Plates Available from DMV

I pride myself on how much more valuable my bicycles are than my 15 year old Subaru. Accesorising generally doesn't fit with that, but these new license plates are a must have for every cyclist. They only cost $10 more when you renew your registration and have a great message--"Share The Road". The fees go to the Bicycle Transportation Alliance and Cycle Oregon.

My registration isn't isn't up for a year, so I went to the Oregon DMV website to get a replacement set. Unfortunately they lived up to the DMV stereotype as being a customer unfriendly bureaucracy. You have to print out a long, long form and provide a ton of info. Insurance, vehicle id, registration numbers, car and drivers license numbers, plate numbers. I didn't want to hunt around for all that. I'm already registered, why can't they just cross reference all this from their databases? You have to write a check-who does that anymore?- and mail in, you can't do it online. Selecting the "Share The Road" plate is not even explicit on the form and its totally unclear as to the amount of fees they want. I put it on the shelf. It would be easier to climb 3 Creeks Road 3 times! Hopefully it'll be easier to get the plates when my registration comes due in about a year--or maybe I'll decide to spend half a day in getting the replacement thing figured out!

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