Yesterday I had a bit too much time on my hands and started doomscrooling online parts retailers and decided I needed to dual sport my 21 KTM 350 XCF. My bike has a license plate but no place to mount it or any lights of any sort. I can get away with head & tail/brake lights and a horn. From what I understand turn signals are not required in Florida. It looks like I could put everything on my bike to make it minimally street legal for about $350 using Polisport LED head light and tail light.
My only question is if you've done similar how often do you actually dual sport it? There are some forest roads/trails around me that are for licensed vehicles only so that was my intention. Told my wife that I was looking to get more seat time and she being uber logical says start bringing your bike to work and ride Pax which is on my way home a couple nights a week. Now I'm in a quandary, do I go ahead and do it or keep it strictly dirt? If you have a kit on your bike how fast is it to remove the street legal crap? If I can convert back and forth within 20 minutes it's a pretty good compromise.
Don’t waste your money. Most people don’t end up using the bike on the street much, if any…
I’ve owned several KTM 500’s over the years and have needed the plate for one ride. Waste of money on insurance for me.
I have a plated 300xcw, I ride it from the house to the mountains couple time a month, So for me it's essential.
RMATVMC has a kit that installs quite easily and has all the wiring/switch gear to make your bike as “Street-able” as you desire…or not.
Can’t go without one. True North Motos is one of the better places to hit up regarding kits. They build quite a bit and can customize.
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If I ride a moto track, I just leave the lights ans plate on
Having a similar conversation in my head currently. buy a full blown xcw 300 or go buy a 500 excf / 450rl and take that thru the woods and single track. have been off dirt for years just wanna explore the area i rode as a kid.
Legalized an XC300 to use for several Colorado rides. Definitively worth the peace of mind that you won't be pulled over while your buddies set and wait for you. The lights are so small that there's no way I could tell any difference whether they were on the bike or not.
No brainer if a person's going to be on the road at all to connect trails.
If you're mainly going to be offroad , I'd make the off road bike such as an XCF street legal. I have done that with an XC300 2 stroke and the bike was awesome. I also currently have a 500 EXC-F and love the bike now that I've unplugged the exhaust and put an ECU on it but that's money you have to spend on the street legal version vs making and off road version road legal.
How much difference is there parts and wiring wise in a XCF vs a EXCF? EXCFs are street legal from the factory.
Good article in the new Racer X Mag yesterday on a GASGAS 500 Dualsport built by DirtbikeTV and reviewed by Keefer.
When I 1st saw the KTM/HUS/GAS 500 Dualsport at the trade show 2 years ago it was the 1st dualsport that could still give me what I was looking for to still do moto and street legal off the showroom floor.
Off course that show was after getting my Rockstar Edition done
Having a dual sport was fantastic ‘back home’ in central Washington. Not so much in the DFW area.
Up there you could be in the forest in just a few minutes with minimal asphalt time needed, and you could ride dirt for many hours without hitting pavement or just enough to link trails. Unfortunately there’s practically zero public land down here to make having a dual sport worthwhile.
The big question is would you have fun riding those roads and trails that require the plate and is it patrolled ? I understand a plate to link good trails. The new stuff is so light , I wouldn’t bother with removing it if you go that route. Another thing is a head light can sure come in handy if you end up having trail problems and get stuck in the dark. Not sure how far you get from the staging area. I’ve spent the night in the mountains by myself when the rotation of the earth didn’t slow down to make up for my poor judgment 🤣
We ride the Allegheny mountains and all our bikes get the street legal treatment, either through kits, enhanced titles, or stretching what legal is. We do it not to ride roads, but if the shit hits the fan when you are 20 miles from camp you can find a road and ride back, and sometimes we use roads to connect trails too. It is so worthwhile, wouldn't have a trail bike without a plate.
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