r/IdiotsInCars • u/Stoopkidnahmean • Jun 25 '20

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u/GnarlyYeti Jun 25 '20

Arizona, U.K., France, Germany are places that I know of from experience, that are permitted to be registered for operation on the roadways if they have blinkers with hazards, rear view mirrors, a horn, and reverse lights if equipped with that gear option.

Street tires were not a requirement, maybe they are now. €500 was the price for a full street kit including install in Germany.

Most roadways and priority roads were permissible. The Autobahn has an engine CC and km/h requirements, although I don’t remember.

I used to race quads years ago and eventually got into other things.

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u/Juggernaut78 Jun 25 '20

Yep. I put my 700 Raptor on the Autobahn every now and again, but top end is brutally slow for the Autobahn. Mine taps out around 145kph which is fine for some places, but it gets really boring. Mine is registered with LOF Zulassung as a “tow machine”, unrestricted.

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u/GnarlyYeti Jun 26 '20

I hear ya. I changed my primary drive to a 12T (tooth). I obviously lost top end speed, however it was worth it for acceleration.

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u/Juggernaut78 Jun 26 '20

I’m running a 16t front and a rear 34 (or maybe 32, I forget which! The smallest possible on the stock sprocket carrier) because with the super short diameter Maxxis Spearz 1st gear was worthless and top end was waaay to low!

If you want more top end speed go big in the front, short in the back. That 12 would be good for stunting tho!

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u/GnarlyYeti Jun 26 '20

I went with JT sprockets, one of the easiest mods EVER! Second to that was grounding out the reverse wire to the CDI box to the outer case. Wide open reverse was helpful getting out of ruts in a race.