Dual Sport

[TLRam1]

I have decided to take my WR250 and dual sport it, put plates on, street legal. I am doing the bare minimum, high & low beam, tail light – brake light, horn, license plate light and one mirror, no blinkers and the horn is there as in fixture. The bike is all AC, no DC and no battery, I have no plans of installing one either. The horn works well on DC, I will attempt to adjust for AC voltage, if that does not work I will probably get a bicycle hand bugle horn to pass inspection with.   

This bike is designed to go anywhere and with what I am doing will not take that ability away. I am excited to have such a bike I can ride on the street and run across any kind of dirt, mountain, hill, mud, creek etc and hit it without hesitation.  When I take it to the hard core or enduro racing all I will need to remove is the mirror.   

For a speedometer I will run a bicycle speedometer (called bike computers now), the device has a magnetic pickup, I plan to get a disk magnet from the hardware store to use with this.

With much of the parts installed, you will not notice much difference, this is the bike.


I bought this switch control that handles the headlights, horn, blinkers (if you have any), and on top is a blue high beam LED indicator.


You will see the pressure rear brake switch I installed, only the rear will activate the brake light, none on the front brake. I replaced the banjo bolt that secures the hydraulic brake line with the pressure switch.


Pickup an old car tire to make a license plate holder, turns out it the tire is too thick, so on to plan B.


Before license plate is installed.




Horn was installed in here, look hard.


Here it is.


The business end that makes all this work, all wires are green because that's what I had on hand. Lol


Installed the LED light and that is the one mirror for the bike. It all worked tonight except I busted the inline resister for the LED. I will have to see what resister I need, the other is in pieces I squashed it with a washer. If you know, tell me, keep me from having proceed with research and the trial and error method.

[dgc67]

Very cool.  I have often thought how nice an enduro might be on my commute, as there are several "shortcuts" I could take on one if I did not mind getting a little dirty.   

[Jerry G Turner]

Pretty cool do you plan on putting a seat on it? lol

[hootmon]

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[dgc67]

Well, you aint in TEXAS!   

I KNOW it's wrong, but I have been riding with expired tags since last Oct 31st.  I do my best not to stay in front of good officer of the law if I can help it, but they just are not that anal here if you are riding reasonably.  I always have all my gear on and usually my backpack strapped on the backseat, as 99% of my riding is on a commute.

[TLRam1]

Pretty cool do you plan on putting a seat on it? lol

THAT's why I'm sore today!

[TLRam1]

You all know my comment... Note my avatar.

Yep, I forgot....more photos to come though, it will be there. My memory these days, not so good. 

[Charles S Otwell]

I KNOW it's wrong, but I have been riding with expired tags since last Oct 31st.  I do my best not to stay in front of good officer of the law if I can help it, but they just are not that anal here if you are riding reasonably.  I always have all my gear on and usually my backpack strapped on the backseat, as 99% of my riding is on a commute.

Ah, he don't care if your legal, he's just looking for his Seafoam

[dgc67]

Oh YEAH!  Duh!!  I feel stupider than I look.  hey, I can say it, not you!   

[Magnum Magna]

Very nice. My dual sport tires where more street then dirt yours are dirt tires.  Enjoy the ride.
If you are working on it next weekend I maybe able to come over and help you on it. 

[drkngas]

Hey Terry, I've been thinking about doing that to my TTR.  Do you have to have a neutral indicating light and a high beam light to pass inspection??

How aggressive of a knobbie can you get that will also be street legal??

I have a battery on mine so the electronics arent a problem.  The mirrors I installed are collapsable so I leave them on for dirt riding but that was to watch out for my kids.  The bad news..  I dropped the bike on the corner of my trailer and poked a hole in the carb boot and broke of the choke cable at the carb.... is there a way to seal that boot?

[Magnum Magna]

If it is required to have a neutral light it will probably still pass if you go to a oil changing / inspection place.  I stopped by one near the house to get Brenda's tags, the only thing they looked at was the weight of the bike written on the frame plate and record the mileage.

[roboto65]

For a speedometer I will run a bicycle speedometer (called bike computers now), the device has a magnetic pickup, I plan to get a disk magnet from the hardware store to use with this.

Terry they have one in the package and when I did my CBR I mounted it on the front fork and put the magnet in the front rotor bolt fit perfect

[TLRam1]

Very nice. My dual sport tires where more street then dirt yours are dirt tires.  Enjoy the ride.
If you are working on it next weekend I maybe able to come over and help you on it. 

At this point I don't plan on using DOT tires so I will have to get the bike inspected from a place who doesn't check this out ie: not a dealer, if I'm charged too much for tags I will borrow one from another bike for times I will be on the street.

[TLRam1]

Hey Terry, I've been thinking about doing that to my TTR.  Do you have to have a neutral indicating light and a high beam light to pass inspection??

How aggressive of a knobbie can you get that will also be street legal??

I have a battery on mine so the electronics arent a problem.  The mirrors I installed are collapsable so I leave them on for dirt riding but that was to watch out for my kids.  The bad news..  I dropped the bike on the corner of my trailer and poked a hole in the carb boot and broke of the choke cable at the carb.... is there a way to seal that boot?

I do not have a neutral light (none needed) and for motorcycles you do not need a highbeam indicator, IIRC, I saw this somewhere and might be able to pull it up again, in cars you Do need a High B. light.

Does your TTR have lights? If so, this setup would cost about 115-150 dollars.

The boot, you could get a patch of rubber and glue it over the hole with a glue resistant to fuel. We do this to diaphragm's all the time with silicone, don't see why that would not work, maybe a glob of silicone over the hole would be fine.