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Can Pocket bikes become street legal?
Hey. I want a pocket bike but cannot get one because i do not no if they are street legal or not. i have read a lot of different things about them being street legal or illegal, but still dont know for sure. One person said that all i needed was all five lights. (2 front turn signals. 2 back turns. and one back break light.) He also said i would need a license plate and insurance. Plus helmet and such. Is this true??
Absolutely not. I read about the "five lights" thing, but lighting is just one of dozens of Federal regulations with which on-road motorcycles must comply.
Ground clearance is one, and no pocket bike will ever meet that requirement.
DOT- approved tires, none of which are available in sizes that small.
Even if you installed the lights, they have to be DOT-approved lights, and the tiny magneto on a pocket bike could not power them.
Since they are not Federally-approved for on-road use, it would be a federal offense to obtain a license plate for one, which you could only do by lying to a DOT official.
The exhausts are illegal.
The emissions are illegal.
You'd have to install mirrors.
That's just for starters- if I had time I could write three times as much.
The good news is, just because they're not street-legal doesn't mean you can't get one, does it? Get one, but just follow the rules concerning their use and you should be fine. I've had 61 bikes, and one was a Blata MiniMoto. It was "cute", but honestly it got old real quick, and when I sold it I really didn't miss it at all. Not to mention that thing was crazy hard to keep running, and I'm a freakin bike mechanic!
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