Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California has finally gotten a motorcycle license after riding his Harley-Davidsons for years without one.

A spokeswoman for the governor, Margita Thompson, said he passed both a written and a riding test and got the required permit on Monday, nearly six months after he crashed one of his Harleys into an SUV pulling out of a driveway while riding near his Los Angeles home with his 12-year-old son in a sidecar.

The governor, who needed 15 stitches on his upper lip, said at the time that he had not bothered to get the proper license because he had ‘‘never thought about it.’’

The Los Angeles Police Department did not issue any citations in the accident because, department officials said, no police officer saw what had happened. Officials at the Department of Motor Vehicles also cleared the governor of any violation, noting that because of the sidecar he was not technically riding on two wheels.

But Thompson said that Schwarzenegger, who broke six ribs in an accident years earlier, had not ridden since the January crash. She said he had been too busy governing but had finally taken time this week to make himself a legal motorcyclist.