I never complained child, I talked about something that happened in my life and you’re the only one that got offended. And I’m gen X sweetheart.

As others have mentioned, you do not need to replace the fender...but you do need to patch the holes. The issue, from the state's POV, is that rusty holes are dangerous and can hurt someone. Tape is not allowed, but I've definitely riveted some sheetmetal over my pinch welds to get past inspection.

So it wasn't brand new?

VT Life hack!

Make investment AirBNBs illegal. Tax the ever-loving SHIT out of summer homes. Rent cap.
There. Got 'em started.

Aww =(

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Theoretically theyll start on "the annex" at some point on 2a. Just past that weird stovepipe and flag store. Idk that looks like a finny type development with mixed housing types:

Willston developments

Remember that State Police Sergeant about 10 years ago, who was fired and charged for defrauding the state for overtime he didn't work? His FY12 income topped $133K. The only people employed by the state who made more than this guy were Commissioners of Departments, like Children and Families, and the Governor. This guy was fraudulently claiming overtime to bulk up his income, particularly during the 2 years prior to his retirement from the VT State Police. The pension pay of retirees was determined by their level of income in the last 2 years of their employment by the State. So this guy was trying to cash in for life.

https://vtdigger.org/2012/07/14/vermont-state-police-trooper-arraigned-for-felony-charges-details-of-fraud-emerge-in-affidavit/

The reason we have inspections is because of people like you who who cause accidents to yourself and others. Vermont is the most expensive place to live. Thanks bud

I think you responded with something cute because you don't actually have an argument against this, but feel some sort of reflexive need to oppose any attempt to use the power of government for good.

The link is 404, can you share again please?

That will be 1/2 million starting price...

Bootlicking is when you support fair labor practices, got it.

My car is nearing 20 years old. If a few lil rust spots were my only issue I’d strap on my big boy pants and become an esteemed weekend bondo mechanic like yourself.

It's for the cows. The city folk that make the rules don't realize yer average cow will just about push over a barbwire fence, just to scratch those hard to reach places, so they are worried about fender holes cheese grating some poor cow in an automobile accident/s

All joking aside, I've been a mechanic in rural Oregon and Vermont for over 20 years. I'm not into hotrods, rolling coal, or any of that idiocy, I believe in climate change, I've built street legal electric vehicles from scratch, owned approximately 20 geo metros, lol, and bike commuted 14 miles to an auto repair job for years. Rural poor people need cars, in our current society. x100 in a "cool" rural place like vermont. They gotta be way over here where they randomly found some janky old house they can afford to rent. They gotta drive way over there to the job where the boss is slightly less exploitative of their desperation. We need to punch up, as a society, not down. Several recent studies show our "carbon footprint" is directly tied to how much we spend, it's like Elon musk being all "we need everyone to use electric cars", then bopping all over in his private jet. We are all out of time on climate change, we need our climate change mitigation to be numbers driven, not just make us feel good, because of classist propaganda we vaguely remember from our childhoods. If you are mad about climate change, punch up, not down.

The comments below were similar to what I was going to say. Except we are land locked. Didn't see that comment.

Cops make a shit load. Hell, most remaining Burlington cops make about $100k too.

Meanwhile they’ll spend the majority of their shift hanging out in their car wearing thousands in free gea or shooting the shit with their friends and meanwhile a teacher who is busting her ass and spending half of her paycheck on supplies makes $35k.

As do I. I still do stuff. I got 4 kiddos in our household.

Paid leave is negotiated with the union contract.

I hope not, but definitely possible during this decade if things don't slow down:(

We love our little slice of heaven, if not we would have sold it during the covid craze like everyone else did.

Have an upvote. Funny thing is a year ago this would have 100. FTP!

If you can trailer it here, the Daily Rider in Burlington might be willing to inspect it for you...they like all kinds of weird bikes, and I mean that in the best possible way.

So you took an old dirt bike, made it electric and street legal? Sounds pretty cool. What did you start with? I liked the video Ryan F9 did on electrifying a little 70's Suzuki dirt bike.

Think of it as an opportunity to stimulate the local economy. It's the Vermont way.

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