Hmmm this looks familiar.

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This offer expires Sept 15th. So get moving.

Moab, Population 5500, is the perfect example of why your rig should be street legal.

Moab will be allowing street legal OHVs access to all of its roads and highways.

As many of you know the trails in Moab were created by Jeeps and explorers who
were not concerned with issues like "street legal" which resulted in a lot of trails starting
in one location and terminating in another requiring you to either return the way you
came or go home on a city or state road that required you to be street legal.

Most of these trails start and end on pavement, some are several miles out of town on
the highway.  Today this requires a bit of trailering around.

Its a lot more fun after 6 hours of grinding it over the rocks to wheel home on the pavement.
The Hells Revenge trail for example exits onto the highway about 1/2 mile from where it starts.
But you can get a ticket, and many do, in that half mile.

But, you must have all of the mods on your rig to make it street legal AND it must be
inspected for safety by an authorized state safety inspector.

So far I have found two kits that are using LED turn signal lights that are not bright enough
to be seen in bright daylight and they will never pass safety inspection.  I told
both of these companies that they will not pass and they plan to sell them still.

Caveat Emptor folks.  If you buy the wrong kit you may have to eat it.

I only know of one kit that looks like it will pass inspection.  It will be available soon so I recommend
hanging onto your pennies until it ships.

The best (and only as far as I know) RV park to ride out of is Arch View on the north end of Moab.
If you go after Oct 1 and are street legal then any of them will work.

Okay I'll follow.

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Any city of 7500 or more is automatically closed. 

-You CAN cross any road closed to OHVs at a right angle.
-You CAN use any road closed to OHVs in an emergency.
-You CAN load and unload your OHV on a closed road.
-You CAN ride on a closed road if directed by the Police or other public authority.

Local authorities in cities of less than 7500 CANNOT close roads to street legal OHVs.

Local authorities CAN allow access to NON-street legal OHVs and/OR restrict them to certain routes AND require that you keep and eye on younger riders.

Local authorities CAN  allow access to Streel legal OHVs even if they are over 7500.

Just because they CAN does not mean they will.  If you live in a city over 7500 it is up to you to campaign to get it approved at the local level.  So get to work.

The only easy answer is to ask someone local if you are allowed to ride your street legal rig on the all streets.

I think Max Powers 800CC Rotax swap was 7,000.
If you sell the Rhino engine for a few K you are in the ball park.

Probably a better bang for that kind of money than building the Rhino.