From: couyant@convex.com (George Couyant)
Subject: street legal
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 06:03:12 GMT
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Here's one of the reply's I sent regarding making MXers road worthy.

> Joe Erdman 1-1432 writes:
> > 
> > I own a 84 KX500.  How did you make your KX street legal? Just curious. 
> > Please email some imformation.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> 	Well, an air cooled one eh Erdy...and gold anodized wheels too..
> 
> 	Don't know what making one street legal involves in the US, but
> 	here in Aus. it's quite challenging. If you want to ride a bike
> 	anywhere on public land, it has to be road registered and you have
> 	to be licenced so there's quite some incentive to get it done!
> 
> 	You need to satisfy ADR's (Australian Design Rules) and
> 	registration requirements. ADR's apply to brakes, noise and now
> 	lights. You need an engineer's certificate to say that you comply.
> 	I can sign engineer's certificates, so that wasn't a problem. All
> 	it needed was a decent muffler and lights. Since I was going to
> 	use these bikes for trail riding/enduros, I didn't want to stuff
> 	around with battery powered lights, so I had a lighting coil made
> 	up by a local electrician. The lights themselves were Acerbis and
> 	the tail light from an XL250.
> 
> 	To pass registration was a real hassle. Firstly, their computers
> 	will spit out any frame number begining with KX. I changed the
> 	number to KHX.....
> 
> 	I had to have functional flashing indicators (flasher and lights
> 	from an old PE250), mirrors (bike), appropriate horn (from the
> 	TT600), chain guard (made it up out of steel sheet), proper tyres 
> 	and a mud flap that went all the way down to the height of the 
> 	rear axle.
> 
> 	It was a lot of mucking around to rig all this stuff up and I was
> 	rejected the first time I submitted it for inspection because
> 	there was too much noise from the air box and expansion chamber.
> 
> 	I ended up making up an expansion chamber cover from fiber glass
> 	and that shut the expansion chamber noise up. The air box was a
> 	lot of fiddling around and I ended up making up a restictor that
> 	sat in the inlet boot and I covered half of the air box intake.
> 
> 	It passed ok after that and I now run it with only the lights.
> 
> 	The KX250 was a matter of using the same stuff from the 500 except
> 	for the expansion chamber cover.
> 
> 	All up it was about a week of work, but it's worth it.
> 
> 	I've been stopped by the cops a few times and they never gave me 
> 	any trouble once I showed them the registration papers. Maybe they
> 	feel sorry for me once I take my helmet off and they see that I'm
> 	older than they are....
> 
> 	Cheers Erdy and if there's anything specific you want to know,
> 	just holler.
> 
> 	George C.
> 
Just a quick footnote...Anyone contemplating making their bike road
registerable, grab a copy of all the relevant rules and regulations and
study them carefully. There's no reason why they should knock you back if
you comply.

Once you have that registration plate, you can pull all the go slow mods.
and go riding. If you're unlucky enough to be pulled up and told that it's
not road worthy, just bolt the bits back on and pass the inspection.

Happy modifying...
George C.