KTM 450 EXC street legal?

[UP-SHIFT]

Noticed that KTM dropped the EXC-R. Is the 2012 EXC 450 street legal in NZ? Anyone here own one?

[richyrich]

yep,they are streetlegal,as i am getting mine in a couple of days,with rego thrown in .yay

[warewolf]

Noticed that KTM dropped the EXC-R. Is the 2012 EXC 450Not sure that the -R was a different bike anyway, they may have only changed the name. Pretty sure every EXC starts out street legal, be it EXC, EXC-R, EXC-F or whatever.

[cooneyr]

Its my understanding that the XC's are not sold legal where as the EXC's are. Key difference between the two as I understand. Then again maybe I read too many Yank websites.

Cheers R

[warewolf]

Yep, that's it.

SX = MX'er: no lighting, no instruments, no mirrors or mounts, few (3-5) and narrow-spaced gears, snappy engine, stiff suspension, 19" rear and NHS tyres. Not road legal.

EXC = enduro: lights, instruments, mirrors, wide-ratio gearbox with 5-6 gears, milder engine, supple suspension, 18" rear and road-legal knobblies. Road legal ex-factory. Europeans still require road-legal bikes for enduros. Aussie you need a rego'd bike and rider to ride in forests.

The yanks don't, and neither do we. So for the yank market there are the XC bikes for cross-country use which are a blend of SX and EXC, and XC-W is the wide-ratio gearbox version, basically an EXC without the extras to make it road legal. EXCs are only available in a few yankee states AFAIK, so most yanks don't know they exist and/or that they are road-legal ex-factory in the RoW.

Husqvarna's WRs are similar to the EXC, and in recent years they've also offered an XC variant here.

Something like that, anyway.

[richyrich]

Yep, that's it.

SX = MX'er: no lighting, no instruments, no mirrors or mounts, few (3-5) and narrow-spaced gears, snappy engine, stiff suspension, 19" rear and NHS tyres. Not road legal.

EXC = enduro: lights, instruments, mirrors, wide-ratio gearbox with 5-6 gears, milder engine, supple suspension, 18" rear and road-legal knobblies. Road legal ex-factory. Europeans still require road-legal bikes for enduros. Aussie you need a rego'd bike and rider to ride in forests.

The yanks don't, and neither do we. So for the yank market there are the XC bikes for cross-country use which are a blend of SX and EXC, and XC-W is the wide-ratio gearbox version, basically an EXC without the extras to make it road legal. EXCs are only available in a few yankee states AFAIK, so most yanks don't know they exist and/or that they are road-legal ex-factory in the RoW.

Husqvarna's WRs are similar to the EXC, and in recent years they've also offered an XC variant here.

Something like that, anyway.


well put warewolf