Quad-bikes

[Thunderbird+]

I've seen a few on the roads lately, are they street legal ?

[Toureman]

Some are, yes.

[bob57]

simple answers are the best YES they are

they are treated like motor bikes for insurance purposes

[baileys]

if they carry a registration number they are "sigh" bet most of the pratts who ride them aint got no insurance though.hope i dont get banned for this answer

[Thunderbird+]

I think your right Baileys, most of the ones I've seen so far look like kids of about 12 years old, they churn up the forest, scare the living crap uot of horses and race each other up and down the road causing mayhem. I nearly had serious a accident a couple of times when they come flying round the bend on the wrong side of the road! When I got in town to report it at the police station, the place was empty and closed. This sounds like a moan and maybe it is but this is whats happening, mostly at weekends and hollidays. Dose someone have to get killed before they clamp down on thease...people!!

[ianess]

Thunderbird1.....welcome to the club!

Some of these things are legal but the problem is the users in general aren't. They could just be kids of all ages and around here they create chaos and mayhem on the roads, pavements and any open space they choose to churn up just for fun. The police are either next to useless or couldn't care less and yes it will probably take more than one person being killed before anything is done about it.
Weekends, holidays, after-school hours,.....any time at all.

OK.......rant over til the next time.

BTW......Microcars like the Virago are 4-wheeled cars which because of their weight are classed as road-legal quads and can be driven on nothing more than a motorbike license.

[funkymoped]

nice bit of streotyping going on in here !

some are legal, others illegal.

[baileys]

me thinks funkymoped got no insurance

[funkymoped]

me thinks funkymoped got no bike !

[baileys]

lol