Comments on: Harley Davidson ATV

By: Mark Koontz

Mark Koontz — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:25:01 +0000

I left Harley (PDC) about 1 year ago. They were looking at quads too but I never heard just how they were going to sell them. Off road? I doubt it.

BTW- They had tried to make a 2 in-the-back, lean machine, 3 wheeler work before they switched to the present “patent” version. It was a modified FLT. But to no sucess.
BTW2- That bike (?) you see in the patent picture was kind of a joke around there. There’s no profit margin in it… Well maybe as a CVO???
I think the patent was just to give the lawyers something different to do.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:08:18 +0000

And the winner is…. “not enough safety bits”.

When the DMV sees 4 wheels, they think of it as a topless car, but it doesn’t have seat belts, or a roll bar, or doors, or a sufficiently sturdy frame, etc., so they won’t allow it on the road.

By: GenWaylaid

GenWaylaid — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:55:18 +0000

Does anyone know WHY quads aren’t considered street-legal?

Is it simply because they have too many wheels to qualify as a motorcycle and not enough safety bits to qualify as a car, and somehow no one got around to making another category?

By: Toybreaker

Toybreaker — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:32:08 +0000

Looks cool. If it was in az would not be a problem keeping it registered.

By: Sid

Sid — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:23:35 +0000

Registered or not, it looks a lot like a regular quad when you’re goin’ down the road, which means the Po-lice will pull you over.

It looks well built. I like it, too.