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Make a scrambler road legal?

  • 21-10-2009 11:00pm
    #1
    jwcpfc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭


    Just wondering if you could make a scrambler/dirt bike road legal? I know you would need to get a tax book but how do you get one and does it cost much?


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  • #2
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    too much hassel
    buy an enduro


  • #3
    jwcpfc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭jwcpfc


    Well i have a scrambler and i was wondering if it was possible to do it..?


  • #4
    CJhaughey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    Lighting coil, Regulator, headlamp tail-light, Indicators, assorted switchgear, Brakelight switches, horn .....
    Do you really want to go there?


  • #5
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    jwcpfc wrote: »
    Well i have a scrambler and i was wondering if it was possible to do it..?


    yes its easy all you have to do is:
    1 get a log book:
    to do this you need a proof of age cert and with that you bring it to northern ireland and register it to get a v5 which you bring to the revenue here and pay the vrt and they give you a log book
    otherwise yu'll have to pay vrt as new and vat as new

    2 you need to ad a regulator possibably a rectifier a bigger battery head lamp tail lamp brake lamp all switches horn speedo number plate etc

    3 it wont handle or brake right at this point the pads will be designed fror harsh braking at lower speeds the suspension will be too soft so new springs new oil smaller dampening rods new rear shock

    if this seems like too much hassel sell the crosser and buy an enduro


  • #6
    Tomohawk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭Tomohawk


    Don't forget having to carry around a bottle of 2 stroke oil, short tank range so lots of trips to the petrol station, and a change of sprockets size to suit driving on the Merrion road or wherever, helps to advoid constant gear changes. You're really better off buying a road going Yamaha dt or something like a fourstroke Suzuki Drz-400. Horses for courses and all that!


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  • #7
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    it would be class to do but as someone already said, a drz400 be the right job


  • #8
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,548 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Tigger wrote: »
    yes its easy all you have to do is:
    1 get a log book:
    to do this you need a proof of age cert and with that you bring it to northern ireland and register it to get a v5 which you bring to the revenue here

    Why go to NI?
    Won't it have to do a single vehicle type approval test in NI? A guy I know brought a road bike over to the UK from the States and it had to go through that test, everything was checked and measured as if it was a custom built from scratch. The ironic thing was it was a Triumph, coming home...

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • #9
    CJhaughey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    I have a Suzuki RMX 250, they are no longer made but are effectively a road legal enduro bike. They had a seperate oil tank for the autolube system.
    a small bottle to catch boilover from the rads, full lighting system and switchgear. and 40+hp and a double wall expansion chamber to quieten them down.
    The closest thing you can get to them now would be a KTM EXC or TM Enduro.
    I wouldn't bother with the 4T they are hard to start and expensive to fix when something goes wrong.


  • #10
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    ninja900 wrote: »
    Why go to NI?
    Won't it have to do a single vehicle type approval test in NI? A guy I know brought a road bike over to the UK from the States and it had to go through that test, everything was checked and measured as if it was a custom built from scratch. The ironic thing was it was a Triumph, coming home...

    how would you get a reg cert here?
    without a v5 its very complicated


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