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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> Rubber Side Down! >> Are you legal? /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1111223406 Message started by WD on 03/19/05 at 01:10:06 |
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Title: Are you legal? Post by WD on 03/19/05 at 01:10:06 I read the Washington State bike laws on the AMA site. Are those for real? My beater bike is actually street legal according to that site! Woohoo!!!! Less to fix!!! Guess I'd best look up the actual vehicle code anyway. Good thing I know some Kojacks/Kojanes (Kojills?). ::) Although my wife is gonna make me fix it all anyway. :-/ Three and a half years down time...rebuild time estimate? Better mot take more than a couple months... -WD |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by PerrydaSavage on 03/19/05 at 02:32:01 8)Hi WD ... this very question came up on a local Message Forum (www.newfoundlandmotorsports.com) recently ... it appears there's a guy in town who has a line of 110cc mini-Choppers for sale a $1500Cdn a throw ... those interested are inquiring about making 'em street legal ... which I think around here is a minimum of headlight and and rear brakelight ... directionals may be optional, as I've seen a few older Harleys runnin' without 'em; Riders just use hand signals ... |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by sluggo on 03/19/05 at 16:57:36 after carefull review of the revised code of washington, i have found that thumper is NOTlegal. no right hand mirror rear tail light below minimum height. opps, will just take my chances. |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by Greg_650 on 03/20/05 at 08:29:47 sluggo wrote:
What is the minimum height? Personally, whether I like 'em or not, I gotta have mirrors. It isn't so much about seeing cars, but you really need them if you are riding with other bikes behind you. |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by Paladin on 03/20/05 at 09:04:07 In California the taillight has to be a minimum of 15 inches from ground to centerline of the lamp. In traffic I try to keep tabs on everything around me. I use my mirrors about every 5 seconds unless distracted by idiots in front. (naturally if no one is there I don't bother keeping tabs on them -- which does not happen often in L.A..) |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by sluggo on 03/20/05 at 23:26:07 now if i were still in la la land i'd be keepin the right side mirror. but here out in the middle of nowhere i've adjusted to where i ride in the lane so no one can "sneak" up on me on the right hand side. BTW thumper's a little more legal today. i mounted a tail light under the license plate with the licence illuminator faceing up. i found a 50 year old tail light on an old international pickup sitting on the farm. it was easy to refurbish, i removed the sub assembly, replaced it with the one from the bics taillight.. sanded good painted it black and clearcoated it. looks good, is legal, and with keeping with the "theme" of the bic, it's a second hand part. http://predator.bikepics.com/pics/suzuki-savage-04-bikepics-314453.jpg |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by WD on 03/21/05 at 00:31:14 RRRRR....so much for popping one the tailights off my late grandpas truck and putting it on my 98. :( Gonna do it anyway, really make the HD yuppie psouer scum scratch their heads...the lamp lens says DODGE on it. 8) -WD |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by PerrydaSavage on 03/21/05 at 01:00:53 Keep the pics comin' guys ... I'm livin vicariously thru your choppin' exploits! Hey ... maybe you guys can do a TV show ... The REAL American Chopper! |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by WD on 03/21/05 at 01:16:51 Hmmm, never work. We actually know what we're doing. Plus, Savage builders aren't going to have the "fights" the "Turtles" do. I quit watching that crap after that so-called veteran's tribute. A friend and I built a real Nam vets tribute bike back in 1998. A chopped Bonneville, with a siezed motor and faded paint. Flat tires, spiderwebs (the real kind), and a dead battery. He put a sign on it that said "My owner never made it home", loaded it in his truck, and headed for the wall. The bike was last licensed in 1970, the owner really did die over there. Somehow, I don't think it would have made as good of TV. My "new" tailight is coming off a one owner 1949 Dodge 1/2 ton that's been in the family since new. The handshift I'm trying to work out for the bike is using the vintage pool ball shift knob my uncle put in the truck in the late 50s or early 60s. And if my wife would just let me build the bike the way I like, the replacement for the hydraulic fork would be made form the truck's original front and rear axles/suspension/steering pieces. Think rigid frame, sprung solo, Indian semi-elliptical girder fork. -WD |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by Ed_L. on 03/21/05 at 06:49:36 Sounds like you have a plan, have you thought of a name for it yet? How's about "Dodge Savage" or "Savage Dodge". |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by Savage_Rob on 03/21/05 at 10:39:44 Almost sounds like it should have a split 2-piece windshield too. |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by sluggo on 03/21/05 at 12:47:26 PerrydaSavage wrote:
i'm looking to get on "build or bust", i've got the machine all planned out, it'll be very similar to what i have now. just making a list of everything i have to do and a 30 day timetable to get it done. out of the 4 episodes so far 3 have failed. |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by lancer on 03/21/05 at 13:02:06 I sent in my application as well...maybe one of us will make it on the show. I think I could do it. I could at least give it a heck of try, some of the people they had on the show don't know how to really work. |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by Nightrain on 03/21/05 at 13:54:16 I'm legal but my girlfriend isn't. ;) |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by sluggo on 03/21/05 at 17:32:12 Nightrain wrote:
15 will get ya 20. :o |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by Goose on 03/21/05 at 17:46:23 Paladin you are one brave man to ride in that kind of traffic. The wife and I got mixed on a weekend trip and wound up in downtown Austin and that scared the holy cr@p out of both of us! |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by Goose on 03/21/05 at 17:53:01 Nightrain remember do not drop the soap! |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by sluggo on 03/21/05 at 18:04:47 i too did the l.a. thing for almost 15years on an 81 gn400, which btw is a thumper also. it was an experince, and most certainly made me a better rider. i've got some horror stories. but i also have some fun ones. like leading a snake of at least 10 machines blasting down the 405 at about 40mph as traffic was at a standstill. i once had a california highway patrolman(who was spliting at the time) pull over to let me lead. because once the first on goes by cages are ready for others. the wildest i would say is on the 405 north at about washington i hit pothole, normally not that bad, but i had a blown disk in my neck and it drove a shard of it into a nerve. it just killed my left arm. i started looking over my shoulder to the right hoping for a break in traffic. as luck would have it the guy behind me in a black camero saw my arm drop and used his car as a traffic break to get me over. he stopped we chatted and he left without even giving me his name. i would have used it "on air" but had to settle for the guy in the black camero. i was glad he was there to assist. :) |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by Goose on 03/21/05 at 18:24:38 Sluggo great bikes the gn thumpers. Wifes first bike was super clean 82 gn250 with less than 4 clicks on odo. would in excess of 60 mph with us 2 up |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by sluggo on 03/21/05 at 18:30:32 i loved that machine. but in the end 98,000 miles it just couldn't be kept together any longer. good thing out of it was the savage. if you look at the pics i post you will see the chromed fenders i took off it and installed on my new thumper. |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by Goose on 03/21/05 at 18:40:24 yea ive seen the fenders. but wifes gn was to clean to rob parts off of sold fof about what we paid for it after she bought her buell blast |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by Goose on 03/21/05 at 18:42:34 this may be real off topic a get this post kicked but do we have any two stroke street bike fans out there? |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by sluggo on 03/21/05 at 18:43:13 mines in the junk pile, but it is the first place i look for some odd part. the blast is a really fun machine, a friend has one, i rode the cr@p out of it one weekend. i didn't ask how he rode mine. but if it was anything like i rode his, we both had a blast. |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by sluggo on 03/21/05 at 18:50:23 Goose wrote:
take this for what it's worth. unlike another forum, we talk of all kinds of machines. we like our savages but we understand it's not the only machine out there. we also get "off topic" on a variety of subjects. the best way to gauge a topic is by how many people if any respond. if nobody responds then maybe they thought it was too off topic. i like the fact you can see how many respond, and how many just lurk.. hey lurkers you are free to join in any time and i hope we see some of you on the "ASH RUN" my first bike was a 71 yamaha twin 100 it was a great bike and regret giving it to a younger brother when i joined the navy. |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by bentwheel on 03/21/05 at 18:55:10 I've always had a soft spot for 2 strokes. It's rare to see them on the street anymore. In the 70's I had a RT3 and a S2. I also kept an MB5 and a YR2 in my collection in the 90's. |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by Paladin on 03/21/05 at 18:56:06 Goose wrote:
In the '70's a buddy brought his Kawasaki 350 triple by the house. I took off down the street, first gear, about half throttle, not bad.... until it hit it's power range and lifted the front wheel. rolled off the throttle, took it back and told him he could keep the monster. My '74 Yamaha DT175 Enduro was a two-stroke. Rode it until I got married in late '86. It was because of the YammerHammer that I insisted on a lightweight single for a street bike. |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by sluggo on 03/21/05 at 19:02:31 roflmao. i rode the 750 triple in 76. that thing would do 80 in third on one wheel. i know this, that's why the guy let me ride it. he would tell people it could, then i would go out and show them. he just didn't have the b@lls for it. it was one wild machine. those days are now over for me, well most of the time. it' one of the reasons i switched to thumpers. a stock savage wont pull the wheel with out some serious rev it up and dump the clutch action. i know this also i've got the scraped fender and baseball sized dent in the tank. :( |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by Goose on 03/21/05 at 19:04:29 last bike i owened before the savage was a 74 gt 380 suzuki bought it used in 1976 had until 1982 will not bore with all off the details but in its final stage vetter quicksilver fairing bike painted to match first overbore k and n pod air filters three into one chamber intake port raised one mm would eat cb550 hondas for lunch out run cb750 up to the ton ps also had a rd 400 yamaha talk about a wheelie machine |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by Goose on 03/21/05 at 19:10:20 yea Sluggo those kawaski two stroke tripple were nasty. never rode the 750 but i did ride 500 and the 350. talking two stroke dirt bikes rode a bultaco 360 loboito and did scare my self real well |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by bentwheel on 03/21/05 at 19:17:18 If you liked the Lobito, you would have loved the 360 Bultaco Astro. It was pure genius. |
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Title: Re: Are you legal? Post by Goose on 03/21/05 at 19:25:03 aint it crazy the spainish did some of the most bada@@ two stroke dirt bikes? |
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