miniature motor cycles

[druiaghtagh]

Are they street legal please as we are plagued by youngsters riding them round here?

[Coobeastie]

To put it bluntly no.

[Toureman]

Mini Motos as they are called are not street legal because of many reasons..........

they have no insurance, no tax, no mot, and are not manufactered to be ridden on the road. Also they are usualy ridden by under age kids with no licence.

The police are trying to clamp down on them and are seizing and crushing them in some parts of the country.

Report them to the police and help the police by trying to find out where the users live.

[SaxyJag]

They sometimes trundle around on the disused playing field next to our house. I tend to leave them to it on the basis that whenever I'm out walking the dog when they're around, they're polite/sensible/careful enough to stay clear of us. There's also the fact that if they weren't here, they'd be out causing havoc on the streets.

Plus, the police have enough excuses as it is for not dealing with serious crime - I don't wish to give them another.

[rugeleyboy]

i used to sell these mini moto's (sorry) but i had to stop... not just because the kids used to drive me absolutly crazy with the same questions everyday!!! but because ......

the police asked me to get the buyers to sign a waiver saying something along the lines of.. "not to be used on a public highway,pavements" and so on...

then the trading standards came to my shop and told me the waiver the police had told me to wright was in fact illegal and any bike i sold was to be in an MOT passable condition and road worthy incase little johnny went down the road and hit a car,broke his neck and then he could sue me for faulty brakes??

[ianess]

My local community police officer wants to stretch a length of cheesewire across where these damnable things are in use!

[dave2222]

so minimotos are bad but horses ******** on the road is fine