Street legal 250r ATC? Is it possible????

[TimSr]

After you spend the money to make the necessary changes to make them "street legal" including tires, exhaust, mirrors, lights, rear differential, registration, and insurance, how well do you think they will perform for off-road use? Also many states require an added endorsement on your drivers license for trikes. In Ohio its different than a motorcycle endorsement.

Get a cheap $200 trailer.

[ATC crazy]

Some of us dont have the $40K to buy one of these street legal trikes. There was a 1996 Goldwing trike at a motorcycle shop a month ago for $30K!!

Id rather put $1k (if that) into a 350X and take that on the road. There are ways to do it...you just have to know how.

[RideRed250R]

i think it would be cool to have a atc as a trike defently be cool to roll up to some street bikes on.... and prolly get toasted, but i bet * could beat a car in acceration. anyways it could be a fun trike but like timsr said, it prolly would only be good for the street,
adam

[1shot]

It's funny I saw this post.
I just got my 85' 250es registered & plated yesterday.
All this info is for AZ. only since states vary. This is the story.............

Over about 2 weeks I spent about $100 for lights, horn, mirror, wiring, switches and other misc. items and put some work into it. I got it all brought "up to code" and then when I tried to register it I was told the "Certificate of ownership" Wasn't the same as a title and wouldn't be sufficient to complete the registration process. I had to contact the original owner and get a signed notarized "Power of attorney to allow me to fill out paperwork in his behalf.
Well, I did the running and got the power of attorney and went back to the DMV.
Upon starting the process everything went well till we hit this part of the conversation:
She asked "2 wheels or 4 wheels?"
To which I replied (obviously wrongly)"3 wheels".
She then turned around and said:"those are death traps, illegal and dangerous, I can't register them"
I told her: They are not illegal there was only an import ban on then in 1987 but there has never been legislation banning them.
Well, I sat there for another 1 ½ hours while she searched all the statutes and memo's in her office and after considerable computer searching she couldn't find ANYTHING saying they couldn't be registered.
Their own list of requirements has 2 different lists of requirements for making atv's street legal.
"3 wheel ATV requirements" and "4 wheel ATV requirements".
The paper states: "to make a 3 wheel atv legal for on-highway use....."
So after an hour and a half she couldn’t find anything to support her claim and said she would "send it upstairs" to her boss (???)
I got a title, an RV plate but she wouldn’t register it for me.
I am SOOOOO agitated and angry.
She couldnt find any law forbidding it but wouldnt register it because she felt they were “Too dangerous to have on the road”
I called the head DMV office in Phoenix, AZ. And requested a supervisor and posed the question to him and explained how she acted. 3 different supervisors (different depts.) Conferenced called with me while they searched their laws and statutes for an answer, They all reached a conclusion and said that : Arizona law does not distinguish in any way the registering process for ATV’s.
2 wheels, 3 wheels, 4 wheels, 6 wheels...... it doesn’t matter.
You have to have:
brake light, tail light, horn, mirror, muffler, brake, headlight,license light, and fuel cap
You also have to fill out a “Highway use form”
You must possess a motorcycle endorsement for 3 wheeler (quad - only a driver license)
If they give you trouble at your local office have them call “Gina @ tech support)
The local lady called Gina and she told her she HAD to register it as a motorcycle and give me a plate. Needless to say she wasn’t happy with me.

[erectordale]

lol thats they way i like to show them do my research know i'm right and show them they don't know there business

[ATCnut]

I wish I could do that in Washington. Here they require a differential and DOT tires, plus all the stuff you needed in AZ. I want one because there are some beaches in WA that are concidered highways. You can drive your car, but I cannot drive my trike.

[crazy_casey]

LOL yeah the trailer thing would be a pain but all the modifications wouldnt make it as fun on the trails i live in the middle of no where and we have trails leading all on the side of the road in the ditch for some from to town to town i know of one thats goes from my house to a town 14 miles down the road so u might want to check into seein if u can make a trail from your house to the trails

[ATC crazy]

Wow...talk about bringing this thread back from the dead...

Anyways:

[New2ATC]

I wonder if I could register my LT125 for on road use if I did all the needed mods.. Would be cool to ride to work,that and it would make the trips to the store for milk so much better..

[joethekid03]

yea i have a 1984 honda 250r and im putting a 2004 ninja 650 motor in it...can i make it street legal.im in NY and ik about all the blinbkers and stuff but im gonna get road tires and extend the rear a lot so it wont tip as much.i want to use it for road only.im about to get my permit and this is alot cheaper on gas and a lot more fun then a car or truck and its just plain out way cheaper to do it this way.so could i?

[300rman]

Makes about as much sense as trying to convert a CR250 into a street bike.

A CR250 would be useless on the HWY, but for around town, it would be an absolute riot. Fast, light, maneuverable....but I would do a CR500 for the road.....whomp on them streetbikes all over the in-town roads.

[fabiodriven]

A CR250 would be useless on the HWY, but for around town, it would be an absolute riot. Fast, light, maneuverable....but I would do a CR500 for the road.....whomp on them streetbikes all over the in-town roads.

They're not all that uncommon around here. jeffatc250r on the boards here has one as well as a close friend of mine about 20 minutes away from here. They do really well on the road. Somebody posted a video not long ago of a CR 500 on a road race track whooping up on the street bikes. He was eating them alive until they got to the long straight. Anybody know where that vid is?

[Aka_am]

in ohio, you can get a body of change affadvit. it states that youve done the nessary items to make your bike street legal. after they change your title from offroad to on.