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Maybe things have changed - you can put whatever lights/horn/signals you want on a offroad competition bike - walk the title into the title/tag place hand over your title and you'll leave disappointed - no tag . Unless things have changed which i highly doubt .
Florida use to be a place people in georgia and mississippi came to - to try and get a title changed to on road use . Friend was station here in fort walton got it done - later tried again - no go . That was 16-17 years ago .

Each state has it's own set of rules. I have been able to get full blown Motocross bikes with a street plate with a "Light Kit" Others are move stringent. 4 wheeler's are much more difficult. Normally not street legal.

Cool. I had no more trouble than most, just never liked seeing it. Just a peeve I guess.


Please resume Honda CT talk, neat bikes.

Which state are you in - just curious ?

A bad one, CA for about one more year...

Wow very surprised , thanks .

Good place to find the "Classic" bikes however. The rest not so much. One has to read the DMV rules, most counter types have no idea.

And they make a street legal one now too!!!!

I liked the ST90 better. A lot lighter and easy to throw into the back of the truck and tie down as a spare tire in the desert.

It's been a long time but IIRC, one deer was at about 6000' and the other closer to 8000. Neither was particularly large. Both times I had the deer across the seat and carrier and was sitting partially on top of it. One was on a trail and the higher elevation one was on a road to a mine. The bike just powered out. It had the high elevation switch but it didn't help enough.

I would want at least a 200CC bike like that.
My wife had a XL 125 that was a cool off road on road bike.Lots of torque and could go 65 on the highway.

Honda's write-up on it doesn't mention a 2 speed. Without that and with those street tires, it'll be useless in the mountains. It's just a retro looking street bike.

That's it right there. If someone wants faster or more powerful, there are other bikes for that.

This is a pic of supposedly one of these new 125's and clearly shows the high/low range lever same as the old Trail 90 and 110.

Link to pic

Full article here

Jim,

Thanks for that link.

I haven't heard of any state that won't license a bike that leaves the factory in a street legal setup. But I suppose it could be a thing.

I know in Montana it doesn't matter WTF you have. LOL. They'll let you slap a plate on it.

My first dirt bike was a trail 90.... at the tender age of 13.
It wasn't a cool bike for a 13 year old. Slow , bad suspension and my need for speed wasn't satisfied. That low range was good on the trails though.
At this stage of life I am thinking I would like this new version.

Speaking of way-cool retro bikes, this is a Royal Enfield, essentially '60's Brit bikes out of India with a few modern upgrades. Took these photos in Glacier NP this past summer.










IIRC they do make 350cc thumper versions of everything, but the ones I've seen here have all been 500cc.


Had a buddy riding thirty miles to work on their likewise way-cool olive drab military version, but these mildly-tuned thumpers get out of breath running with interstate traffic, and they don't hold up as well in hard daily use like we have come to expect from the Japanese brands.

You bet. I've been reading everything I can on this 125 Hunter. Going to look at a clean CT110 on Friday and if we can agree on a price I might get that but if not I'll probably wait until they bring this new one into the States. After all that back and forth in the small dual purpose motorcycle thread this is exactly what I'm looking for.

I have been reading about them also but I have not found that image of the H/L transmission switch.

Would be great bike to have at the house.

With the higher gearing on that 125, the low range could be pretty useful. Fully off road and off trail you want low end tractable power and that automatic clutch comes in real handy to just roll off the gas and grab another gear. With a clutch and too tall a first gear, you pull in the clutch, rev the engine and dig a hole with the too narrow rear tire or stall the engine.

I can't for the life of me imagine a street legal Rokon. The beauty (probably the wrong word for a Rokon) of these things is the implement tread wide tires and how slow and tractable they are off the road. Sure they do 35 or 40 top end, but with minimal suspension no one I know wants to go that fast on one. Lots of warts and moles on those first ones. Even my '76 Chrysler 2 stroke powered Rokon was a step above the early yellow ones. Mine was problematic starting in the winter and I had to keep that plug clean. And speaking of not being street legal!!! As a youth, we were going up north and I was going to take that Rokon. Well, to make sure that it ran well I took it on a carbon run before we left. Not being street legal the sidewalk seemed the logical choice, so off I went. When I pulled back into the driveway right behind me was a city cop with his lights on. He got out of his car stifling a smile and said "Young man I had you at 40 mph ON THE SIDEWALK!" Then he asked me if my father was home and thankfully he was. Not sure what dad said to the guy, but he came back out of the house shaking his head with that same stifled smile. Then he told me that he wasn't even going to write that one up because he wasn't sure how. I suspect it was conversation down at the precinct. Good memories on that bike. My Honda powered Rokon was better, but under powered. My Kohler powered Rokon is just right. We have lots of trees here and Rokons are narrow and atv's don't fit between trees.