How street legal do I need to be?

[motormichael]

I have never ran an enduro but I would like to try one. I normally run harescrambles. What do I need to do to my DRZ400E to get it ready? Any other helpful info. would be appreciated also. I am in district 15 and the Upland race is coming up.

 

[FlyinRyan]

Most enduros require that you have a headlight / taillight mounted, plus a license plate that is current. I have raced the Upland enduro many times and they require that you have a working headlight / taillight and a license plate. Most enduros depend on the club and how much road you'll be on. My club states that you must be street legal but it is rider responibilty. I ran KX and YZ's for years with battery powered headlight / taillight and a license plate from a street bike. With your DRZ all you really need is a license plate.

Hope this helps.

 

[sparkymarky]

street legal? really? that's crazy. in california, no one would be able to ride (or they'd all be on klx's or xr's hahaha). must just be less land to ride on out there. i don't think you even need lights for norcal enduros. just a green or red sticker (ohv registration), OR a street plate.
mw

 

[motormichael]

Street Legal

Definetly less land to ride on.There are no state or federal lands to ride on. All areas are privately owned and usually are no bigger than 700-800 acres if you are lucky. The few small areas that we do have take a beating. Indiana likes to get every last penny for registrations too. 200 -800 pound motorcycles do a tremindous amount of damage to our already crap roads.( yeah right! ) ( Let's see, that plate will be $275.00 Sir. ) The state needs to charge for it ya know.

 

[Layton]

When we say “street legal” at a mid-western enduro what we really mean is the bike has a headlight, taillight, is relatively quiet, and has a license plate. Most of the time if the lights on the mx bikes are powered by a 9-volt battery and the plate is off an old street bike. You will probably see only one or two truly “street legal” bikes at any given enduro and they usually wont finish because of the poor selection of street legal tires etc.

The problem is, the enduro sections are connected by regular roads and all motor vehicles have to be street legal to travel on state highways. Most of the time the police will not bother the riders as long as the bikes appear to be street legal BUT if they do decide to start writing tickets, it is a $500.00 dollar fine here in Illinois for no insurance. And that would just be the starting point for all the tickets they could write. Not exactly a laughing matter.:(

 

[motormichael]

Street Legal

I carry liability insurance even on my offroad only bikes just to protect me if I injure someone or damage their property.

 

[Rut Rider]

Motormichael, I just got done runing my first enduro last Sunday (Brown Mtn. Lights, SETRA). I had the same question you've got. I have a KDX 200, so I just made sure that the lights worked, put my stock muffler/spark arrester back on , and borrowed a license plate for the day. I noticed that there were all kinds of MX bikes with flashlights taped to the front fender and tiny battery operated red lights on the rear fenders. I even saw one guy with a car license plate taped to the back of his chest protector. The cops were cool for us and didn't give any one a hard time, except for the one that didn't know about the enduro and actually pulled a couple of guys over. He figured it out when a bunch of other bikes started to come by. He did however check their licence.
Anyway, I had a blast at my first enduro. I have been racing harescrambles for years and have always wanted to ride an enduro. I am glad I finally did. You might really want to consider buying an enduro roll chart. Once I fgured out how to properly use it :think about the 3rd moto it really made things easier. Also don't let the harescramble "blood" :p get you into too big of a hurry. I burned my first check by 5 minutes, my 3rd check by 9 minutes. That is NOT a good thing :( . I actually zeroed a couple of checks when I figured out what I was doing. Have a blast a your first enduro, and remember it is not about being fast, it is about being fast enough.