this isnt realy a question but i've seen a lot of people saying pocket bikes are not street legal?

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the truth is the only state pocket bikes are not street legal is in california. as long as they meet the following criteria they are street legal in all other states: it must have DOT approved headlight that is iluminated whenever ridden day or night that is above 22 inches from the ground, must haveturn signals, an engine larger than 50cc, be registered with local dmv, and the rider must wear DOT approved helmet. if i missed anything please correct me. i have done all my research for my own pocket bike and do not recomend driving on the streets unless you have a death wish people have hard time seeing you, and most people in this country cant drive worth crap anyways.

countys and towns may add laws not enforced by state so check into it. i know some county's in oklahoma alcohol is illegal.

Answer 1

Good try.... your information at the state level is probably right, and applied 5 yrs ago. but at the city an sm. town level its all been added to....
because like you said, you have to have a death wish to ride them, and they are more trouble than there worth........thats why theyve become outlawed in alot of places today......

Answer 2

You just answered you're own question with that last sentence. The reason pocket bikes are not street legal is not because of California's smog restrictions but rather because of federal safety standards. The federal government steals our tax dollars and holds it ransom. If we want to fix our potholes and expand our freeways then we must give in at the state level. The federal government then gives us a good ~85% of our money back these ways.

The federal government also attempt to extort the other states by the same means. But many of these states will just say screw it. They won't be blackmailed, they'd rather leave their highways as is or pull from reserve funds than be forced to conform their local laws. Unfortunately, California must of lost its marbles or something because we have a great economy.

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Oh yes thank you Firecracker for being such a perfect example to my point. New Hampshire is a state that does not goof around. If New Hampshire makes its own law prohibiting pocket bike operation then it is because the people feel that way and not because the federal government told them so.

If Congress made it law that adults couldn’t have their bikes without a helmet, then New Hampshire would be amongst the first to say, *You’ll have to pry them from our cold dead hands.* And it wouldn’t be for any reasons opposing protective headgear but rather because they’re against totalitarian oppression, and because they’re just bad@#$ that way! By the way, what’s your secret? Do you mandate insurance like the great States of Texas and Florida do or perhaps require vegetable waivers to be on file with the local motor vehicle bureau? Whatever it is you got going on over there it seems to be working. The last time I checked the people of New Hampshire had the lowest state taxes in the continental United States. Only second to Alaska but nobody really counts them as a *real* state, it’s a good thing they don’t have the internet to read this.
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/taxesbystate2005/index.html

Since this isn’t really a question and we’re just bantering on topics, let me also say that if the sissy states and all of the girly-men whined and moaned to their representatives and senators to make it a law to ban arms, then New Hampshire would announce its secession. I would be the first to move there and I’d be very tempted to apply for the new country’s citizenship. For some reason whenever there is an executive or congressional ban on arms, California always tells the federal that they didn’t ban enough and there needs to be more of them banned. I don’t know maybe California just likes crime or something, for without criminals we’d have no need for large government. Other than this and a *few* other things, California is otherwise the best state in the union.

Firecracker, I flipped back a page in your NH Revised Statutes and now I got another question for you. What does Title XXI, Ch. 265, § 122, paragraph III mean?
“III. If federal law is altered so that the mandatory wearing of protective headgear on motorcycles by persons less than 18 years of age is not required as a condition to the receipt by the state of any federal funds, paragraphs I and II shall be void.”
Is it just to look like you have a law when you really don’t?
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXI/265/265-122.htm

*/End of Line.

Answer 3

Wrong is wrong. And so are you.
Do not make a declarative statement without even rudimentary research.

They are NOT road legal in New Hampshire. By law, they cannot be issued a registration or title.

Answer 4

my town in nevada outlawed them also and my town is very small, they cannot be ridden anywhere around here except closed courses and it's an 80 buck ticket if you get caught on the streets on one.