Angry with bicycle registration law

[prospectheightsresident]

Originally Posted by ben young

You bought the bike to donate, apparently never to ride ,and paid a registration fee on it . Now does the recipient of your donation also pay a registration fee ?

I paid the registration fee and have the registration document (which I attached to the other documents that come with the bike) but the store said I didn't have to fill out my personal information. The bike's new owner (or rather their parents as I believe the form only let people 18 and older register a bike) will fill in their own information and mail the registration forms off to the city/county.

[prospectheightsresident]

Originally Posted by whtviper1

Well - one can argue any fee hurts the poor the most regardless of what it is.

It does seem silly to have a $15 fee, it probably costs that much just to administer the program and doesn't really add revenue.

True. Like you wrote, though, this fee just seems silly/unnecessary. I wouldn't even be as upset (I'd still be upset) if the registration fee only applied to those bikes that are likely to be parked out on the streets. But this is clearly a smaller, kids bike. Yet, because the wheels are exactly 20 inches, I had to register. Just very frustrating.