Ticketed on a pocketbike need help?

Recently I purchased a pocket bike (mini motorcycle)
It's engine is 49 cc so supposedly it does not qualify as a motorcycle, yet I was pulled over and ticketed as if it could have been a legal vehicle.
I am resident of Ontario
I recieved four (4) tickets
Fail to signal turn - Highway Traffic Act (HTA) sect. 142 (1)
Drive motor Vehicle - No plates - HTA 7 (1)(b)(1)
Drive motor Vehicle - No permit - HTA 7 (1)(a)
Fail to Surrender Insurance - Compulsory Automobile Insurance Act (CAIA) 3 (1)
Here are some links to the HTA and CAIA sites
http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/dblaws/statu...
http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/dblaws/statu...

If anyone knows of any previous cases like this and whether these actually can apply to pocketbikes or how they can be fought, please respond. Thanks.

I think the message the officer is giving you is: Stay off public streets with your goofy pocketbike. They should not be intermingling with street traffic because they are not big enough to be seen by other drivers. They also do not have the required safety lighting.

With the money you will pay in fines, you could have bought a real bike.

heres your sign

have you ever seen more than one pocket bike on a state owned road. You know like people driving them to work regular. I am guessing no.

Start saving your money stupidity costs
Answered your own question. You were ticketed as if it were a LEGAL vehicle. I don't know about Canada but everywhere I do know of in the U.S. the bike must have a headlight and turnsignals to be street legal. In California your bike probably would have been impounded. Plates/registration and insurance requirements vary. I believe in Ca. 49cc would not require either, no license either. ( I THINK 50cc or larger do, but I have not lived in Ca. for 14 yr. )
I suspect you are stuck with the failure to signal. The others would depend on local law.
Brother - if you ride on the road you have to obey the road rules, no matter if you ride a bicycle, pocket bike or a tracktor. COME ON!!!
Buy a 125cc + dirt bike, that way next time you can run.
You are 21 years old and bought a pocket bike! 21 really?
21 years old anywhere in this world is an adult, so that defense will not work.

I understand having a little fun. Believe me, I to have infracted my share of laws when I was a teenager and I had to pay for it as well. I found out that there is a lot less trouble if you just play their game their way.

You had no license for the bike, no permit to ride, and no insurance to ride on public roads, a bike that is not legal for public roads to begin with. Can't you see the humor in all this-
You screwed up, admit it. You won't get out of this. Take your licks and learn from all that has happened to you.

OK, now..., look for a good lawyer if you have to go to court. If there is no court, just pay your fines a be done with it.
You are not a kid. 21 is an adult for everything. If you were riding on the street then you can be ticketed for every street requirement that you do not meet including plates, insurance, lights and turn signals.
The person in a wheel chair is considered a pedestrian it is in no way the same thing. Unless you have 49CC wheelchairs in your area your kind of an *** for comparing the two.

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