Getting Salvage title bike Street legal

[r6rammy]

First off, do you have an actual certificate of salvage (it's a salvage title that's non-registerable)? Second off, what state is it in? If it's not Colorado, you might be boned, or at least it'll make things harder.

I'm not sure I'm clear on how it's salvage from theft, not a wreck...Are you saying that the pieces of the bike were stolen off of it? Or the bike was stolen and was starting to be parted out?

The process basically consists of making the bike street legal (it runs, horn, lights, mirror), then getting a VIN inspection along with your roadworthy inspection. You take that down to the DMV and change it out for a salvage title.

Is the cert in your name? If not, you need to transfer the title/cert to your name so that you have a CO cert/title. Then get it inspected & they'll do the registerable salvage title.

I'm guessing it was stolen in MA and wrecked. According to MA law you have to fix/repair everything that was damaged to get it streetable again right?
Here in CO if it has a headlight, taillight/brakelight, turn signals, and of course unbroken/working brake/clutch/shift levers you should be fine.
Then get it inspected for a salvage/rebuilt title and go from there.
You might want to PM CaneZach though as he'll probably know the law on that better than most of us.

First off, there was no wreck involved. Lot of parts were stolen, frame scratched (tiny scratch when they broke the clip-ons), and fairings scratched up, bolt heads stripped etc. Total bill to repair and replace parts was ~$6500, so insurance totaled it being over 75% of actual value.

MA salvage title is in my name already. I have all the street parts that I bought off forums to replace everything. Issue in MA is that I need receipts for all the parts, so tough luck there other than some ingenuity proposed by someone about "creating receipts" which obviously is not the right/legal way, so thats outta the door.

So I have a fully functional street bike but cant get it registered/certified in MA. In TX, like you said, its the same, headlight, brake lights, horn, good running condition and it can be recertified. I'll try and pm CaneZach like you suggested and go from there.

[fasterlaster]

MA salvage title is in my name already. I have all the street parts that I bought off forums to replace everything. Issue in MA is that I need receipts for all the parts, so tough luck there other than some ingenuity proposed by someone about "creating receipts" which obviously is not the right/legal way, so thats outta the door.

If you purchased stuff from a forum there should be an email thread, which could constitute a receipt. I would suspect MA would acknowledge that a receipt is anything that you paid money and got something back, or is there more to the receipt requirement than just having a receipt?

[r6rammy]

If you purchased stuff from a forum there should be an email thread, which could constitute a receipt. I would suspect MA would acknowledge that a receipt is anything that you paid money and got something back, or is there more to the receipt requirement than just having a receipt?

The receipt needs to be from a business apparently, not individual sellers, I asked at the inspection place to the local sheriff that does the inspections.