Making your XR "Streel Legal" - Under Construction

If you need to ride your machine on the street there's a few things to do, unless of course you live in Australia and can buy XR's Street legal off the showroom floor.
 

Handy products:
Four Strokes Only - Street Licensing and Registration guide
Four Strokes only Hi-Lo headlight converter kit
Four Strokes only State List - What each USA state requires for registration.
XR's Only Lighting Kit - Complete Electrical Conversion
Baja Designs - Dual Sport kits.

Stators and Stator rewinding:
Electrex Charging Systems for Motorcycles - Honda Stators
XR600R Magneto Winding to drive a 55/60 Watt lamp on the cheap
Ricky Stator 

Dualsport Equipment info / reviews:
All-offroad.com's Dual sport lighting kit review
 

XR Mailing List Discussions on the subject:

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wait...before you point me to baja designs...let me tell you that I'm
looking for the low cost approach.  You see I'm not going to be riding
the bike to work or doing extended road rides.  I haul the bike to the
riding areas and once in a while I will ride a dual sport event that
requires it to be marginally street legal.

Is there a web site that contains this info?  I did see a piece in a
Dirt Rider on a test of the Y2K XR4 that mentioned some minimal mods
from Fay Myers to make that bike legal.  They even gave part numbers for
the horn, brake light switch, etc.  However they failed to mention the
source of the parts to make the headlight do the high/low switch.

all of my riding will be in Ohio and Michigan.

thanks in advance.

****Steve Wollam

>Ok, who has the skinny on the minimal modifications to make a XR6 street
>legal?

I got 'da skinny.  Four Strokes Only has been kind enough to include a state-by-state reference on their site for making you bike street legal.  He doesn't have info for all the states, but I checked, and he does have Ohio.  Here's the page:
http://www.fourstrokesonly.com/StrtLicRef2.html

>I'm looking for the low cost approach.  You see I'm not >going to be riding
>the bike to work or doing extended road rides.  I haul the bike to the
>riding areas and once in a while I will ride a dual sport event that
>requires it to be marginally street legal.

I do the same and am in the process of making my XR6 legal, too.  I got lucky and found a 'used' Driven wiring harness for $100, so keep you eye out and surf that net like crazy!

>source of the parts to make the headlight do the >high/low switch?

Looks like FSO can help you there too for around $30:
http://www.fourstrokesonly.com/HiLoHLConvKit.html

Note that I have had no dealings with this company and so can not personally recommend them, but their website is certainly helpful and has a number of innovative products to make your bike street legal.

Good luck and shred on,

JY
XR628 w/CR sus'
Las Vegas, NV
 

**** Jason Yates

Brake Light Switch mounted to rear brake
moving it to the front soon, I dont' find much use for the rear brake.

Acerbis Brake Light
actualy a cobbed together acerbis mount with trailer brake light from Al's
Auto

DOT tires- Pirelli MT 21's
right now I am running a front Bridgestone 41 TW and a rear Metzeler Sahara:
total cost $30 out of the bin at your LBS, shitty Dual Sport tires don't
sell well and you can usually find deals

Tacky Fold-down acerbis rearview
POS.

That's it. The trick is to go to a rural area to get the inspection done.
They seem much more easy going.
 

I am going change a few things that won't cost much but riding some distance
easier.
IMS folding mirror dealy
Rewind Stator-add voltage regulator, maybe a battery.
Hydraulic Actuated Brake light.
IMS 4.7 gallon tank
 

Good Luck to You,

Dave

**** Dave Van Skike