Drivers license requiremebts for a Stallion in your state.
I am curious what the driver's license requirements are in other states. My wife is trying to get a license so that she can drive her Stallion in Arizona.
Arizona just classified it(March 2016) as a auto-cycle. The Stallion qualifies in every aspect except it has to have seat belts. With seat belts, there is no endorsement needed on a standard drivers license. I am not putting in seat belts.
Arizona will not let us let her take the driving course, as it is not compatible with the vehicle, it won' fit. The solution is in their opinion, have her take it on a two wheel motorcycle to get the MC endorsement. My bride soon to be 70 is not ever going to get on a two wheel bike. The other solution is go to a private driving school to the tune of $350.00 to $480.00.
Seems like a stupid costly solution. :mad::mad::mad:
Seat Belts and shrugging your shoulders
[QUOTE=trikerjack;365701]Rocket: In Arizona, Tucson at least, I put in two seat belts and the Stallion is an Auto-Cycle.
The key is the seat belts. The lady at MVD gave me a copy of the regulation to carry in the Stallion in case I got stopped. $40.00 for two seat belts, beat paying $350-$450 to take a test at a private school. With seat belts no endorsement is needed.[/QUOTE]
Ok, so if you [I]install [/I]belts, you have to [I]wear[/I] them. No way I’m strapping into the trike. Exactly where are the frame hard-points that you bolt them to? Don’t lay down to an idiot in the DMV. Go over their head. Your Stallion is manufactured under federal definition as a Motorcycle. A motorcycle with three wheels is a trike. Slap on a Mellon-saver, get licensed as required for a motorcycle.
regardless of all the two-wheel riders (the ones that are too snooty to acknowledge the facts, not all of them) and wags in the world, it’s a motorcycle. The auto cycle is an almost-car, Almost cycle hybrid. The laws suggested by their association are made so a person riding in something similar to a Slingshot (but with a roof) don’t need a helmet. They have tandem side-by-side seating, auto-style seats, auto-style controls, etc.
My Stallion is a motorcycle. I sit on a saddle, and plot my turns and then execute them, I lean to distribute my weight when making faster turns. Just because it has gas and brake pedals and a wheel doesn’t mean it’s not a motorcycle.
maybe i’m Beating a dead horse here (pun intended) but if Thoroughbred Motorsports intended your Trike to be an auto-cycle, God would have put a sticker that declared it to be an auto-cycle under the hood!
J-Bear