Originally Posted by mschwett

they ask for your DL for identification purposes, but violations on a bike don’t go on your driving record.

if you don’t have your drivers license, or don’t have one, they’ll ask your name and date of birth and/or address and look you up on their computer to verify identity and make sure you don’t have a warrant etc. then they’ll cite you for whatever you did, just like they would for a motor vehicle violation, or jaywalking, or public urination, or whatever…