street legal banshee!

[hyperlite33]

As far as Colorado goes...this is a real easy state to license vehicles. My neighbor just recently licenced his old XR200 and showed me the requirements. All you have to do is have a horn (even a squeeze bulb horn!), brake light/tail light combo, headlight and street legal tires. They didn't even want to see the bike when he registered it!

I did ask someone in the DMV a while back about quads (half joking) and she said they would license it if met the above requirements and said that finding street legal tires for quads was the thing that stopped most people.

It definetly would be cool riding a banshee on the streets legaly, but I know you would get harrased everywhere you went...I get cops making special efforts to see my license plates on my factory street legal supermoto bike all the time!

[RIPPEN]

A spooled or welded diff definately isn't street legal. A locker is, but only because you can engage and disengage it. The reason for not allowing any kind of solid drive axle, is because the vehicle will drive like complete shit on pavement. Ever tried to drive a truck with a welded diff on pavement. Now fuckin' way. Same thing if you try to make a tight turn at slow speed on a banshee, just sucks.

 

Your probably right about the turn signals, I know on my R1 I pulled them off the day after I got it, but then I did the integrated ones that go in the brake light.

 

I still think this guy is straight BS, if he did manage to get plates for that shee it's because somebody at the DMV slipped up.

It's a few posts up in this thread.

Actually.. I have driven cars with mini spools and found no problem at all besides making sharper turns... :shrug:

The more and more its talked about, the more and more I want to meet up with this guy.. Check out the bike and see what he says is teh requirements. Talking to him very little through pms he sounds like a damn decent guy.. Seems even more decent that he hasn't went off on anyone here yet, considering all the shit talking thats been going on....

Not meaning you Liftd..

 

RIPPEN

[LiftdT4R]

Actually.. I have driven cars with mini spools and found no problem at all besides making sharper turns... :shrug:

The more and more its talked about, the more and more I want to meet up with this guy.. Check out the bike and see what he says is teh requirements. Talking to him very little through pms he sounds like a damn decent guy.. Seems even more decent that he hasn't went off on anyone here yet, considering all the shit talking thats been going on....

Not meaning you Liftd..

 

RIPPEN

Cool, I've actually never driven a mini-spool, and I'm not exactly sure how that works. My '89 4Runner has a welded rear diff and it is im-freakin-possible to drive on drive pavement at speeds under 20mph. The tires bark like crazy in the turns, and the whole thing jumps all over the place. I've driven a full spool in a Bronco, and that was just the same.

 

Also, I'm not surprised this guy took a lot of shit. 45k for a banshee? Come on, you could build that thing brand new for half the price. I would never pay that much, and I think it is unreasonable to ask. Even if he did manage to somehow circumvent the law, and make it street legal, what's to say I couldn't do it too? I don't really see how he gets off asking that much.

 

Even better, that exact same bike has been on e-bay at least twice now, both time I remember it going for under 10k. Come on, you really expect to make 400% profit on something like that?

[RIPPEN]

Cool, I've actually never driven a mini-spool, and I'm not exactly sure how that works. My '89 4Runner has a welded rear diff and it is im-freakin-possible to drive on drive pavement at speeds under 20mph. The tires bark like crazy in the turns, and the whole thing jumps all over the place. I've driven a full spool in a Bronco, and that was just the same.

 

Also, I'm not surprised this guy took a lot of shit. 45k for a banshee? Come on, you could build that thing brand new for half the price. I would never pay that much, and I think it is unreasonable to ask. Even if he did manage to somehow circumvent the law, and make it street legal, what's to say I couldn't do it too? I don't really see how he gets off asking that much.

 

Even better, that exact same bike has been on e-bay at least twice now, both time I remember it going for under 10k. Come on, you really expect to make 400% profit on something like that?

A mini spool basicly does the same thing as welding up the spiders.. Locks both axels together and makes it to where there is NO give.. VERY common on drag cars.. As I remember all you do is pull out the spider gears.. insert the spool, insert axels, and they are locked.. Cheap easy way of doing things..

 

Iam not trying to justify his 45,000 price.. However IF its what he says it is, I would imagine he has it priced that high based on jumping through the hoops and gaurantening it street legal.. Would I pay that much even for a true street legal bike? HELL NO :yelrotflmao: Would some jackass with allot of dough? Maybe..

Guess the part I found ironic about it all was when I was reading the thread about PS.. Where everyone was saying how much more friendly and "forgiving" members are to others here and at PS they just rip people apart.. Then I see TONS of shit talked on someone who is a known member.. Like I said, I don't agree with his price.. But Iam not gonna rip the guy apart for it, especially when I cant prove what he is saying(about it being legal) as incorrect.. :shrug:

 

RIPPEN