[TrialsRider]

Too much snow and ice on the roads for the CB, but with about 800 bucks worth of studs the dirt bike has potential

 

[TrialsRider]

Cafe Racer Build on my "Black Betty" Parts from SpeedMotoCo

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Are those Lilliputian sized turn signals mounted less then 4 inches away from your headlight?

 

[TrialsRider]

DOT in both Canada and USA agree very close on turn signal lens size and physical location on the bike for safety reasons plus cops are not stupid about federal motorcycle DOT law regarding signal lighting requirements.
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Each turn signal lamp on a motorcycle shall have an effective projected luminous lens area of not less than 2,258 mm2 (3.5 square inches).
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Front Turn signals:
At or near the front, at the same height, symmetrically about the vertical centerline, and having a minimum horizontal separation distance (centerline of lamps) of 16 inches. Minimum edge to edge separation distance between a turn signal lamp and headlamp is 4 inches.
Rear Turn signals:
At or near the rear, at the same height, symmetrically about the vertical centerline, and having a minimum horizontal separation distance (centerline to centerline of lamps) of 9 inches.
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[TrialsRider]

Blinkers aren't required in Texas, USA.....

Do you know what federal law is?

 

[TrialsRider]

Adherence to highway standards is what limits what I can buy to put on the road. It also makes it so I can drive that vehicle from Ontario to Texas to California to Alaska and home again, safely and legally the entire trip. That is important to me. Get into an accident with novelty lighting on your vehicle in place of street legal lighting and the law is going to rule against you.

 

[TrialsRider]

Regardless of the law... the consideration of personal safety is pretty important. It's hard enough getting people to acknowledge or see you when you have FACTORY lighting/indicators. Reducing that margin of safety for perceived style is just reckless.

That's the whole point isn't it.
DOT is the engineering specifications behind public road use. Being written into federal law makes it the law of the land. In this case Canada and USA inclusive uses the same spec. Those half sized turn signal and tail lights that some like to put on their full sized motorcycles are only DOT approved for scooters that top out at 30mph. You hit a non-road worthy vehicle in the fog, dark or rain on the interstate or making a left turn in an intersection & law guarantees it's going to be his fault and liability not yours.

 

[TrialsRider]

Enforcement in USA, no idea, but your DOT is the same thing as my DOT up here in Canada and I am familiar with that and I know what will get you pulled over if you ride it up here.

 

[TrialsRider]

They have a fancy name for it now, it's called vehicle homologation

 

[TrialsRider]

I seen one cop car stop 8 lanes of heavy traffic on a california expressway like it was nothing, that was pretty amazing and about my only experience with US law enforcement and I'd like to keep it that way

Only 5 votes not a lot of love for the roached CB