How the heck is this street legal?

[JEFF_H]

Idaho too, lights and signals is all you need. Hell i've seen'em without signals and they got a license on em.
Of course up here we're pretty rural.

ID off-road bikes now require a special plate too.
UTV's and 2-smoke dirt bikes can be made street legal here

I think me n darmah would look dope riding to work in one of these


as others have pointed out....street legal in CA now requires a street-approved VIN in addition to the equipment required.
first cop you pass with that 2-stroke quad is going to fix whatever glitch allowed them to get a plate on it.
(after he/she gives you a good baton whipping for riding something that uglies up the whole community)

[VisceralReaction]

Nah not a special plate, just an ORV sticker, and that's only for unlicensed ORVs.
In other words you have to have a stickers to drive your dirt bike on logging roads etc.
Where as before you can take your unlicensed dirt bike out in the woods and ride away.
Just more money for the state.

[Duck-Stew]

Non-DOT legal tires on it too BTW....  It slipped through some loop-hole but a 350cc 2-stroke ANYTHING isn't street legal in CA...

[Duck-Stew]

Okay...  This would be a street legal 2-stroke greater than 350cc's.

[triangleforge]

This whole thread can be summed up by one word....Why??

Actually, it makes a certain amount of sense around here in Northern Arizona -- this is a relatively small town, nice weather most of the year, substantially skewed toward retirement age, surrounded by National Forest land with lots of legal gravel roads throughout. In fact, I discovered shortly after moving here while following GPS directions in an overloaded 2WD pickup pulling a trailer with a huge piece of culvert in it (long story) that a whole lot of the AZ State Routes on the map are actually Class 1 gravel or worse. Maybe even most of the total mileage of them.

As around-town, grocery-getter transportation, a Rhino or even an ATV with a bit of carrying capacity isn't necessarily a bad choice, and not any more inherently dangerous than my Monster or bicycle, the latter being my first choice of townie transport.

[angler]

My bro-in-law has a tricked out Rhino with a plate in AZ.  It's the beer getter.......