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Are Race Motorcycles Street Legal? |
I want to buy this 1996 YZF 600 Yamaha Race Prep Bike But I really don't know much about bikes yet. Is this a ok bike for a beginner no they are not and sometimes they do not have a title be careful We used to say that buying a used bike is buying somebody else's problem. === YZF 600 is pretty hot bike. It might be too much for a beginner. For a beginner you want something small and easy to ride. It is hard enough to learn to ride without having to worry about the bike's high engine power. Remember it is your life. If you start slowly, you could be enjoying motorbiking for life. If you start too fast, you'll end up giving up after few miles. good I do not understand very well what you mean but you say that the motorcycles are legal if esque I do not understand jajaja to it Really, I ask you: please don't buy any kind of hyper-bike if it's your first one. These bikes are fast enough to have won major races just a few years ago -- that means they could kill the best riders in the world! Most of the folks you see on them today can't ride within 80% of the bikes' potential, so if you're a beginner, you might be getting dangerous at 30~40%. And the response is so fast, you'll be in over your head in an instant. As for "race bikes' being legal" on the street: they're no easier to license than race cars. So the general answer is, "no." In your case, they're certainly not worth it. Get something docile, like a Virago, Boulevard, or a Rebel. It'll do more than you can imagine, and it'll give you a second chance when you do something stupid. Learn to move as one with the bike, and especially learn traffic. Then, next year, sell the bike in the spring, wait a month or two, and buy the bike you'll really want. Who knows? You might find that your original is all you need, and you'll enjoy mastering that machine. But please don't buy something crazy when you don't know about it. You'd be like a virgin walking into a Bangkok whorehouse -- exciting as it sounds, it's likely you won't survive the experience. 40 years riding, some racing. Never in Bangkok. street legal, basically means lights, blinkers, licence plate......safety is on you. race bikes are prepped for track riding, the blinkers, tail light, and headlight are stripped off of it, it probably has race plastics on it which dont have mounting place for the above items. any non-essential items have been removed as well. (this could mean manything, ie wiring harness) non-essential items removed vary per bike, due to what can be removed or what had to be removed due to a crash. the bike has probably been modified in someway (not necessarily a bad thing). aslo everything that can be, will be safety wired. people advertise "race bike" or "race ready bike" to inform of the bikes use. i would highly reccommend not getting a "race prepped" bike for the street, it would be a royal PITA to get it legal. i would like to stress that this bike is not a beginner bike. now, if you only intend on taking "learning" classes on a racetrack and only intend on riding this particular bike on the race track (doing "track days") then i would tell you to get it. |
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