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  • (silly question?)
    Are trials bikes road legal?

  • Not silly question. Awful answer: only sometimes, often no, and when yes also kind of no.

    The one I’m looking at is overpowered and over budget, but from a dealer and road reg’d.

    The bikes are sometimes retroactively road reg’d, but it’s easier if they already have a number plate when buying (OTR’d from new) to save all the faff with certificates of newness.

    I believe minimum for MOT is horn and speedo? So very easy to add these to a trials using a bicycle speedo and some kind of honker.

  • cheers, I figured it would be some sort of restriction on road use, day time only, that sort of thing.

    Only trials bikes i've seen up close had nothing electrical, which makes sense, batteries are heavy.

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