Mini motos road legal

Question, would there be any legal reasons why a mini-moto could not be
converted to a day bike or lights fitted as a UK road legal bike?

49cc two stroke petrol engine
· manual start system
· Air cooled
· Automatic clutch
· No suspension system
· front and rear disc brakes
· Side stand
· Under seat exhaust system
1035mm length, 500mm width, 585mm high

 

Construction & Use regs.

Not insurmountable, but amazingly difficult to make a minimoto comply.

Indicators and lights have to be a certain height, distance, width,
size, EU approved, etc etc.

 

You would never get road legal, type approved tyres for it?

 

Probably not, but I really don't know.

 

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:52:24 +0100,

As Tog says - you would have to have all the lights etc on stalks to
get them the correct height and spacing etc - it would be completely
impractical to do

 

Also, they are silly. There is a huge variety of proper motorbikes
available; buy one of them.

John

 

It has been done, quite a few years ago by a guy in Southport. Totally
road legal.

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I thought gag bikes were dodgy enough, height wise.

 

I thought so too, but it made the papers around here. I did keep a
copy but threw it out when we moved house.



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Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally

 

In

Day use only? AFAIK you only have to have a working horn <snigger> for a
daytime MOT?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Gavsta

Brake lights, indicators (remeber we're talking C&U, not just MOT).

 

Don't need indicators on a bike registered before 1 April 1986.

 

A lad round here had a YSR50 on the road... did over 50 it did... if your
knees could take being bent like that, for long enough.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

Well, yes. But this is a mini-moto, which is inherently unregistered. So
it'd need indicators when you tried to register it, no?
--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-104" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL)
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Nigel Eaton says...

There's a company in Bedford selling midi-motos, slighty bigger than a
mini-moto. These bikes come with lights, indicators and a 50cc engine
with electric start. I'd doubt you could make one of those road legal
cheaply.

 

Some people don't miss a trick, do they?

 

Ah, got me there, Watson.

 

Really? A moment of madness looms ...

 

Nigel Eaton wrote:

I looked into making a mini-moto road legal. Several people from several
sources said that the DVLA won't issue a V5 for a mini-moto any more. I
don't know if this is the official answer from the DVLA though.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Paul Corfield

<G> It's the closest I'll get to a 100+ lap of the island.
--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-104" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL)
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"