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Originally Posted by woodsrat
I had a street-legal CR-500 I titled and plated back in the early 90's. At least in Indiana it was fairly easy back then. I've also owned an XR-200R/XR-250R, KDX-200 and still have a Gas-Gas Pampera that were all titled and plated. KTM's were the easiest up until recently because their C of O didn't say anything about "for off road use only" and were listed on the Indiana excise tax list as street bikes.
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When the XR 200R was still available in Brazil, it had always been street-legal. Not sure if it's still available for export, but at least one version that used to be exported to Australia was certified as a "farm bike" subject to conditional registration there.
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Every now and again you hear of a fresh conversion but the Feds started coming down on the States who allowed this sort of thing and it's greatly slowed down.
Could a person title and license a non-EPA/DOT bike? It wouldn't be easy. According to a recent article in Cycle World exotics like street-legal two strokes can be imported legally after they're 25 years old.
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Considering what had been done with those Nissan Skylines imported by a now-defunct company that claimed they fulfilled Federal crash-worthiness requirements, even though just one or two generations were actually covered by the certification, it still seems easier to make an off-road motorcycle fully compliant with EPA/DOT requirements. The same might apply for grey-imports.
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I'm not sure I want a 25 year old smallbore after the typical use it gets...
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Sure, most of them are tipically too worn out. But now I've seen even some that are more than 30-years old in a good shape, since they can be officially considered a collectors' vehicle in my country when they turn 30. When it comes to the engine, it's still relatively easy to refurbish them, plus some models such as the Honda CG-series were in fact developed to withstand some degrees of abuse and neglect.
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I told my friend who lives in Mexico to always bring back a new Wave whenever he comes home but so far he's not done it for me yet.
One avenue for licensing something like a Wave might be Indiana's "Motor Driven Cycle" plates which don't require a title, at least for the 49cc versions. With a little creative fudging I'm sure the authorities would never know that the Wave is double the displacement of a legal "moped".
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If you could get a JDM Super Cub, which is available with a 49cc version that nowadays is not used in any Latin American variant...