So now that I have a sidecar (see: The Sidecar Project) I wanted to see if there were any Minnesota Statutes that applied especially to sidecars.
The statutes are available on line here, but there is no easy to use search function…
Google to the rescue! You can specify a site for Google to search, like this:
site:http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/
So, to find all the sections relevant to sidecars, do this search at Google:
sidecar site:http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/
Viola!
Someone else was asking about the maximum number of lights that you can have on a motorcycle (maybe my neighbor?) when we were talking about adding lights to the sidecar. I thought it would be cool to add some auxiliary lights on the sidecar. (You can’t have too much light driving at night.)
So the relevant statutes are:
169.64 Subd. 1 talks about light intensity. (As a side note, Subd. 4 states that motorcycles may have “blue dot” tail lights… Hrm)
169.56 talks about Auxiliary lights.
The way I read it, Subd. 1 says I can have two “Spot Lights”, Subd. 2 says I can have two “Fog Lights”, Subd. 3 says I can have two “Low Beam Lights” and Subd. 4 says I can have two “Driving Lights”. As far as I can tell, that means that I can have eight auxiliary lights on my bike!
However, 169.63 (b) states that you can’t have more then four lights lit at any time while you are on the highway, including the headlight(s).
