{"id":13374,"date":"2014-10-02T09:25:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=13374"},"modified":"2016-05-05T15:44:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:44:10","slug":"is-your-motorcycle-street-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2014\/10\/is-your-motorcycle-street-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your motorcycle street legal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/dirt-bike-cops-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/dirt-bike-cops-2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to take a good look at your cafe bike \/ chopper \/ bobber \/ enduro&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Riding old enduro bikes around in the woods and street is pretty awesome. It&#8217;s some of the most fun I&#8217;ve had since BMX.<\/p>\n<p>My CT1-175 and IT250 are pretty loud. Chain saw loud. I assume most people assume I&#8217;m on an off road dirt bike, just like every other ghetto kid ripping around. I get it. Whenever I hear that 2 stroke noise I naturally assume the bike is an off road dirt bike and not street legal.<\/p>\n<p>So, I started thinking about what it really means to make any motorcycle 100% street legal?<\/p>\n<p>For example, yes, my CT1 is insured, and has PA title and registration, and I have lights. Bike is totally street legal right&#8230;? But if a cop pulled me over, could he still give me tickets for little things if he wanted to be a dick?<\/p>\n<h2>Items needed for a MC in PA to be truly street legal<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Motorcycle VIN needs to be the type: &#8220;dual-sport&#8221; or &#8220;street&#8221;. &#8220;Off-road&#8221; type VIN can&#8217;t be titled for street use.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2014\/09\/79-it250-progress\/#comments\">Read comment #5 and #6 here<\/a> if you want more clarification.<\/li>\n<li>You must have a MC permit or license and insured.<\/li>\n<li>Must have a registration. Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2014\/04\/get-a-title-with-a-vermont-registration\/\">Vermont is fine and legal<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Must have inspection. Unless your plate is an &#8220;antique&#8221; plate?<\/li>\n<li>Must have a working horn.<\/li>\n<li>Must have a brake on each wheel.<\/li>\n<li>May have turn signals. Basically this means, you don&#8217;t need them and can hand signal.<br \/>\nPA MC code: 175.146 sub section f2.<\/li>\n<li>Must have a speedo and odometer.<\/li>\n<li>Tires must be DOT and say DOT on them.<\/li>\n<li>Must have a headlight and tail light. Tail light or a light must illuminate the license plate.<\/li>\n<li>Must have at least 1 mirror<\/li>\n<li>Fuel system must be leakproof. So if your carbs leak, you could get a fine?<\/li>\n<li>Exhaust can&#8217;t be louder than 88 (decibel (A).<\/li>\n<li>Must have fender for each wheel.<\/li>\n<li>Must have a kick stand.<\/li>\n<li>License plate can&#8217;t hang loosely. Must be seen by 50ft from the rear. Can&#8217;t be obscured.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of the above info is based on the PA motorcycle code. Link below:<br \/>\n<a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pacode.com\/secure\/data\/067\/chapter175\/subchapHtoc.html\">PA motorcycle code<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just because it states you need everything in that list, I highly doubt any cop is checking certain things. For example; are they checking if you have a horn ha. 90% of the time cops don&#8217;t even care if your MC is inspected. Seriously, who the F gets their MC inspected. Are cops riding around with a decibel sound tester for your exhaust, ha. No.<\/p>\n<p>Guarantee the cops don&#8217;t know the PA MC code off the top of their head anyway, so if you get pulled over be nice and play dumb. It&#8217;s worked for me; &#8220;Uh, I didn&#8217;t know my license plate couldn&#8217;t be hidden under my seat. Are you sure officer?&#8221; Ha.<\/p>\n<p>Last &#8211; To reiterate from a previous post I made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2014\/04\/philly-police-confiscating-dirt-bikes\/\">several months ago here<\/a>&#8230; about if the cops can take your MC&#8230; In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/Confiscating-All-Terrain-Vehicles-in-Philly-Not-Easy-205435671.html\">this article by NBC10<\/a>, Lt. Stanford of the Philly police states twice; \u201cPolice can only confiscate a dirt bike under two conditions \u2014 if the operator doesn\u2019t have a license or the bike is not registered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comment and let me know if there&#8217;s anything big I&#8217;m forgetting, or if anything is blatantly wrong, which I&#8217;ll update in the list above. I&#8217;m not a lawyer so I&#8217;m reading the PA code and making the best sense of it that I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to take a good look at your cafe bike \/ chopper \/ bobber \/ enduro&#8230; Riding old enduro bikes around in the woods and street is pretty awesome. It&#8217;s some of the most fun I&#8217;ve had since BMX. My CT1-175 and IT250 are pretty loud. Chain saw loud. I assume most people assume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13374"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13416,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374\/revisions\/13416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}