[woodsman]

I'd like to know why the OP would want to ride it and what makes Black Betty a "build"?

Too me it looks like another tired old Honda that needed money spent on maintenance and wear parts. The forks indicate they haven't been serviced, the shocks look original. What has been done to the bike other than the bars, switches and headlight?

 

[woodsman]

https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors816.html

Chapter 816 is the rules here in Oregon, * additional can be county and city as well.

Unless you really get a weirdo officer, or they are looking for a pretext to initiate a traffic stop nobody really is enforcing these and reality with new technology coming out, these are really behind the curve. If you quiz a officer it's unlikely most know these.

Here's a example, on Buells they run dual headlights, one is low beam and high lights up both. A few people have been pulled over for having a headlight out and officers don't understand it's federally and state legal. I have not been pulled over for it but those I know who did tried to explain, but told the officer " write me a ticket & I'll see you in court!" Each time the cop failed to show & dismissed.
But a popular modification is changing both bulbs to dual filament for better lighting and avoiding ignorance in LEO.

But nowadays, a lot of people are running with out license plates or current, and list of other things and police are so short staffed unless a major crime, nobody's going to pull you over. Last September during fire fighting I was laughing but didn't have time to take a picture but several police cars brand new but. No license plates, been in service 4 months and DMV is so backed up even the cops don't get their stuff in a timely fashion.

A friend at Gresham police said they are so busy with homicides and violence that virtually anything else does not even get a response.

If you had asked me yesterday I wouldn't have thought I would start today thinking our DMV actually works pretty well. It might be 20 minutes to change an ownership over and get your plates. If it is a new bike, you give the dealer your insurance info and they have plates on it when you pick it up. Once a vehicle is plated you just renew online.

 

[woodsman]

In the great USA DOT enforcement can vary greatly. Some places you can put anything on the road in other locations you can get popped for everything from lighting colors to db output. This can vary by county and officer. At the moment I am trying to find someone that will push a 150cc 2t SM through for me to use on my mini commute for the summer. I really don't want to ride the big bikes on those days. It may or may not happen.

Here in Ontario there are bikes that wouldn't meet DOT and I doubt being pulled over is a real issue if the lighting is visible. Where it is more likely to be a problem is with your insurance looking for reasons not to pay out and the insurer of the truck that hit you from behind looking for ways to avoid liability.