A couple years ago I bought a scooter as an around-town starter bike. 50ccs, but because it can go faster than 25 mph (tops out at 35), it was technically a motorcycle.
The dealer pointed out that by law (in MA) you have to handle it like any other motorcycle, but that most people register them as mopeds: that way they don’t need a motorcycle license or insurance, just a registration sticker. Well, I had the license, so I followed the law and insured it. Insuring a scooter is cheap anyway.
Sadly, a scooter is something like a stem cell: while it is protean at birth, once it is registered it is nearly impossible for it to change again. Now the dealership is reluctant to take it as a trade-in, because it’s a 50-cc motorcycle, and hell if anyone but an idiot like me will follow the damn law and register their 50-cc motorcycle as such. I’m checking with another dealership to see if they want it, and trying to get the RMV to allow me to change the registration, and we’ll see tomorrow if I’m able to trade up to something that definitely demands proper insurance and licensing.
And then, I’ll try and find somewhere to park it.
Secretly Ironic 