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drnaphtali

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Hey Guys,

I am completely inexperienced with motorcycles. I have ridden one maybe once or twice in my life.

My reasons for getting one would be mostly to use it to go to work and back, which is all done on suburban roads, and then for some off-road riding over weekends.

I have been advised to look at the KDX200. My only problem so far is that I cannot get one (used) which is street legal. All of them seem to be full on dirt bikes.

So my questions are:
1) Do you get variations of the bike which is street legal?
2) Would it be feasible to look into buying one and convert it into a street legal bike?
3) Should I just look at another bike? I do not want to spend more than R15k on a bike, and I would really like to do some off-road riding with it.

Thanks!
 
You do get kits to make the bike legal - around R4k from what I can tell. You'd have to check with the traffic department exactly what you need to do. But it's probably headlights, brakes, turn signals and a horn. At which point you may need a bigger alternator too.

Cant really see much for 15k that can do both off and on road to be honest. Just finding something (reliable) that can do one of those for that price will be tricky. I'm sure they're out there, but it'll be few and far between
 
Buy a bike/scooter to get you to work and back...
Save money...
Then buy a nice toy for playing with over weekends...
:D
 
Hey guys,
Thanks for the help!

I saw a KMX200 for sale for R13k.
What do you guys think of this bike?
Alternatively, I also saw a KDX220 which is street legal for the same price...still waiting to hear from the owner.

Cheers

edit: the kmx might be a 250...the advertisement is conflicting.
 
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drnaphtali said:
Hey guys,
Thanks for the help!

I saw a KMX200 for sale for R13k.
What do you guys think of this bike?
Alternatively, I also saw a KDX220 which is street legal for the same price...still waiting to hear from the owner.

Cheers

edit: the kmx might be a 250...the advertisement is conflicting.
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Dude, listen...go to ThinkBike forum and chat with the guys there. I promise you will get all the help you need and more! As with your OP and your latest reply, I can see you are asking for trouble with going in blindly looking at bikes. Just dont do it, as quoted above, otherwise you are in for trouble.

I was a complete amateur, asked for help on ThinkBike and learnt a crapload from them. Still a noob and been riding for a year...but learning what I did from them, getting help and researching on the net...still say most of the help I got was from reading up on the ThinkBike forum and guys answering my questions and steering me in the right direction.

Bundu said:
better even would be to take a look here http://www.wilddog.za.net/forum/
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Even the above, yeah. Point is drnaphtali that you are very new to biking, so join a biking forum and ask as many questions as you can! They will be more than happy to help ;)
 
Okay, thanks guys! Will drop the guys on ThinkBike a few questions. thanks for the tips
 
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