• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
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  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

DOT/"Not For Highway Use/"Off Road use only"- Australia/NSW

Is DOT etc a requirement in Australia

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duggoey

duggoey

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Does anyone know the actual legislation relating to legality and insurances etc. in regards to tyre standards in Australia, particularly NSW?

Does DOT/"Not For Highway Use/"Off Road use only" have any relevance here?
I just bought a new tyre and proceeded to ride, only to notice after washing there is "off road use only" stamped on it. Too late to bring it back.

I know USA and Canada it is required, but what about here? Any ideas?
 
I asked a HWP officer about such a thing recently (E4 euro road legal motard cut slicks). He said most hwp.will just defect you if they have any doubt, then its up to you and the RTA to sort it out.
 
Didn't mention any laws, I'll be working near them again in the near future I'll try and ask one of the higher up guys if I can remember to. Insurance is a whole other ballgame, only answer you'd get out of them would be to call up and ask for their policy relating to tyres. See if they'll send something out in writing that's more specific than the usual PDS.
 
Well you can get rec reg in Victoria and they don't specify what tyres you need, but you can legally ride on any road that is not in a built up area or not a highway.DOT tyres are crap for off road anyway.
 
I'd move to Vic just for the recreational registration.

In NSW you have to pay the FULL REGISTRATION COSTS as if it were a full road going vehicle. This cost me something like $400 /year. The bike also has to have mirrors, light, indicators etc. Its a complete scam. Yet if you dont rego and get caught (even in the bush) the fines are massive and so are the demerit points!

Caiman, if you get the chance it would be good to know. Thanks.
 
Spoke to the Traffic Sergeant at the HWP office today, he said to get the word on roadworthiness of tyres and how it's determined is to write/email the RTA legal department. Most of my chat was regarding Goldspeed tyres for my motard, regarding street tyres he said most officers look at the amount/location of grooves, the tread depth (min 2-3mm, wear markers etc) when determining roadworthiness out in the field.

Eg. http://www.aaa-racing.com/home.php?cat=82 <-- he said was fine.
http://www.aaa-racing.com/home.php?cat=87 <-- you'd be pushing it, also tread depth.
 
Its fully on the depth of the knob,DOT is USA and not for highway ect does not apply in OZ.Its about the only brake we get cut re RTA in NSW.But you can always run into an even bigger Knob in Uniform,you would have to be unlucky though
 
Sounds like emailing the Roads / maritime etc ,(Aka RTA...) is the go.

This is pretty much what my tyres look like. Cant argue the lack of tread depth here...
Kenda Tyre.jpg
 
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