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After getting a great little tour of the portside area of Kiel on the wing of Frank's sidecar it was once again time to hang on to the metal tubing as Frank threw the BMW based beast around the wet streets on the way to the registration office. Vehicle registration in Germany is a big ass run around bring joggers deal, this is how it goes. Firstly the prospective lience owner, in this case Frank, must produce the paperwork signed by the seller stating that the vehicle has been sold. Frank must then provide proof of character and address. At this point he is given an official piece of paper stating the alpha numeric and numerical information of the plate. This information must be then taken to a plate maker - which are outside businesses - usually residing in a neighbouring street. Once the plate is created and paid for it must be returned to the registration office where the first person who issues the plate information has a look at it. Then its off to another office within the registration department where a chap measures the characters on the plate and applies the county stickers. This is then taken to the first office where everything is re-checked and an invoice is issued. The invoice must then be paid at another office. Ahh, good ol' sterically logical Deutschland. Pfft.