How To Register A Dirt Bike For The Street

A user-friendly mode of connecting trails, running errands, or exploring back country roads is using your clay bike. However, Colorado requires a that a vehicle be "licensed" on most county, state and local routes.

Converting your dirt bike to "Street Legal", and obtaining registration and a championship is easier than yous thought!

Hither we volition discuss the current methods and stipulations of doing then:

PAPERWORK:The forms required to begin your process tin can exist found at: https://dmv.colorado.gov/forms-vehicles

Y'all will need:

DR 2686:Certification of Equipment Compliance for Motorcycles https://dmv.colorado.gov/sites/dmv/files/DR2686.pdf

DR 2444: Land of Colorado Statement of Fact https://dmv.colorado.gov/sites/dmv/files/DR2444.pdf

DR2395: Awarding for Title and/or Registration https://dmv.colorado.gov/sites/dmv/files/DR2395_0.pdf

Proof of Buying: Either a completed nib of sale or your current Colorado Parks and Wild animals Motorcycle (OHV) Registration Card. https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/sites/default/files/Bill%20of%20Sale.pdf

INSPECTION: Yous volition need to contact your local Colorado State Patrol Office to schedule an in-person VIN and Compliance Inspection. You are required to trailer/truck bed/moto-hitch your motorcycle(due south) to their location. The Toll is $50.00 per motorbike. https://csp.colorado.gov/get-a-vin-inspection

The Trooper volition demand to see your VIN, so be prepared to unstrap and plow your handlebars to a direction allowing easy visibility to your vehicles identification number. Besides, be prepared to start your motorcycle if not equipped with a battery for indication of your lamps circuit.

HEADLAMPS: Every motorcycle shall be equipped with at least one and non more than ii head lamps which shall comply with the requirements and limitations of sections 42-iv-202 and 42-4-204 to 42-4-231 and function 3 of this article where applicative thereto. (LED Headlights/headlamps are a great way to alleviate stress on a mill stator.)

TAIL LAMPS AND REFLECTORS: Equipped with one tail lamp mounted on rear shall emit cerise light plain visible from a distance of 500 feet. Height measured not more than lxx-two inches nor less than twenty inches. Every motorbike shall acquit at least ane reflector meeting the requirements of this department (5).(Once again, an aftermarket tail-lite assemble that is LED will alleviate stress on a factory stator.)

Cease LAMPS: All motorcycles manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1958 shall be equipped with at least one stop light meeting the requirements of this department.(A brake light switch is a simple installation. You can use a hydraulic or manual switch attached to your rear brakes master cylinder.)

BRAKES: Equipped with brakes to command the movement and to stop and hold a vehicle. 1 wheel shall be equipped with brakes.

HORNS: Equipped with a horn in good working status with an audible sound of two hundred feet.(The days of a squeezy "clown horn" are behind us. Luckily many manufactures now offer USB rechargeable horns that require no wiring.)

MIRRORS: Equipped with a mirror free of obstruction that views a altitude of 2 hundred feet to the rear.

RESTRICTIONS ON TIRE EQUIPMENT: Must be marked DOT on-route use.

SPECIAL EQUIPMENT OR MODIFICATIONS: All original safety equipment must be in proper working condition. (If your motorbike is equipped with something, information technology must work. Case, if you have turn indicators/blinkers installed on your bike, they must function.)

Once the officeholder/trooper has signed off on your DR2686, he will impress a DR2704 State of Colorado Certified VIN Inspection C.R.Southward. 42-5-202. Besides be prepared for your drivers license to exist run through dispatch.

TITLING/REGISTRATION: The next stride is to take your completed paperwork to the DMV. https://dmv.colorado.gov/county-motor-vehicle-offices

You will need your DR2686 (Certification of equipment compliance two pages), DR2704 (Certified VIN inspection), DR2444 (statement of odometer), completed DR2395 (Application for Championship and/or Registration), your electric current and valid drivers license with a motorbike endorsement, proof of current insurance for the motorcycle you intend on registering), and your proof of ownership (bill of sale or CPW OHV registration bill of fare).

CPW OHV Permit: Once your motorcycle is plated, yous can now obtain a Colorado Parks and Wild fauna Off-Highway Vehicle Permit. More data tin can exist establish here: https://cpw.state.co.united states/buyapply/Pages/RegistrationsOHV.aspx