When you move in North Carolina you are required to change your address within 60 days on your drivers license and vehicle registration.

With this in mind I went to the local DMV office to update my motorcycle registration. When I got there the nice lady behind the counter said my registration was “locked” because my motorcycle hadn’t been inspected within the last 90 days.

So I drove to a local NC Vehicle Inspection Station, only to find out they don’t inspect motorcycles — just cars. They suggested I go down the street to Myers Motorcycles. So I did, but they were too busy to inspect my bike.

This gave me a good excuse to take a longer ride up to Parkway Harley-Davidson in Swannanoa…

When I walked into the service department there was a guy ahead of me who was being helped by the service advisor. He just needed a fuse and a state inspection. After he was signed in I asked the service advisor how long it would take to inspect my bike.

“In a perfect world, just a few minutes,” he said jokingly.

Then, to my surprise, he wheeled my bike into the shop, bumped me ahead of everyone else, and inspected it. (I guess I live in a perfect world, because it only took a few minutes!)