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Message: [QUOTE="rmc_olderthandirt, post: 1289677, member: 68872"] The Green Sticker is good until the date on the sticker, so that sticker was out of date 5 years ago. If you haven't had to deal with California DMV yet this will be an "interesting" experience for you. Keep calm, bite your tongue, keep chipping away at it and you will eventually prevail. Don't expect it to be easy or a one trip to DMV deal. My experience is dealing with situations like this is that they require the stack of paperwork to be at least an inch thick before they relent and give you what you need. If the bike had never been registered then it would be fairly straight forward, although it would still require at least two trips to DMV and one to the CHP (for VIN verification). If the bike had been previously registered to your buddy and he is still available then it will be easy. If the bike has changed hands several times since it was properly registered then you might have a major problem. If the bike was registered in your buddy's name then you need to have him request a duplicate title from DMV. Note that DMV will send it to him, not to you! Once he gets the duplicate he signs it, you take it to DMV and transfer ownership. If you buddy never had it registered in his name and the person he bought it from is not available then there will be a lot more hoops to jump through. The DMV prefers documents on their forms so start the process by downloading the "Bill of sale" and "Statement of Fact" forms. Fill out the Bill of Sale as you would expect. On the "Statement of Fact" have your buddy how he came to own the bike without the title. I really doubt that this will be sufficient but it will be a start. DMV will probably send you off to jump through some more hoops and when you have suffered enough they may eventually relent and give you a new title. Or you can skip the whole thing and just not ride the bike on public lands where the sticker is enforced. Where do you live? Where do you intend to ride? If you are going to go to private MX tracks exclusively then you don't need to worry about it at all. If you ride the desert then you can usually get away without proper registration because there is very little enforcement. If you want to ride any of the forest OHV parks, however, you won't get the bike past the ranger kiosk without a current sticker. As for why your bike won't start I would guess that you managed to flood it. Sitting for a week with the gas on would not have caused any harm. Sitting for a month should also be okay. Sitting for 6 months can cause problems. My suggestion would be to start with the basics. Pull the plug, make sure it hasn't fouled. If it is wet then that will support the flooded theory. If it is dry then I would suspect that it is not getting gas. Are you sure you have gas? I have had a leaky float valve drain my tank ....... While you have the plug out put the wire back on, hold it against the head and kick the bike to see if you get spark. If you suspect that it is flooded then leave the plug out (easier kicking), hold the throttle wide open (knob in) and kick it a dozen times. Put the plug back and try to start it again. If you still can't get it to start then I would gather up a couple of buddies to give you a push. Shift to second or third (certainly not first!), hold the clutch in, get rolling then let the clutch out. Rod [/QUOTE]

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