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    Why not? this caught my eye:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hazza View Post
    But i'm all for 2 wheels because three just isn't right
    What about for those people that aren't tall enough in the leg to ride a 2 wheeler and doesn't want a cruiser or scooter but they love riding bikes...???

    A Trike or a Quad would be the best option to allow them to keep riding...

    Quads and Trikes are still classified as bikes...

    Remember that I didn't ask whether or not YOU guys prefer 2, 3 or 4 wheels...

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    Someone said quads weren't legal on the highway because they had a solid rear axle.

    Steve
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    Back in the late 80s we converted a TRX500 for a guy with a leg injury. He got a grant from some organisation and we converted the tyres to radials and installed a go cart diff still with chain drive..

    There was some rule about the clutch being the catagory the bike fell into for helmet or not.
    Hand clutch was a bike so wear a helmet and foot clutch a car so dont have to wear a helmet. Something like that anyhow.

    Yer i know that was in the 80s , still a good story , that guy got a life back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bungbung View Post
    Why not? this caught my eye:
    is that rego

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    One of these, definitely...

    http://www.superbike.co.uk/imageBank/p/P10100095.JPG

    I remember my old man saying something about registering a quad as a bike or a car, something about having to have seat belts if it was registered as a car but not having to wear a helmet. Probably goes with the clutch differences too...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    The worst trikes I've ever seen are the ones that are sold in the USA, usually customised Harleys or Wings. They're great lard-arsed things. The proportions are all wrong. Trikeworks does a much better trike build. They should use better diffs and then export to the USA. They'd clean up, IMHO.
    come on hitch - you've been there - you can see the sense in having one on those long freeways across the nevada desert....

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    Quote Originally Posted by marty View Post
    come on hitch - you've been there - you can see the sense in having one on those long freeways across the nevada desert....
    It's not their performance, it's their styling, or rather the singular lack of said.
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    Sorry for bringing up a old thread. Just wondering if there was a definitive answer to whether atv/quads can become road legal in NZ

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