Upper limit for A2 bikes?

[salsa]

So I'm currently in the process of getting my A2 license and have been looking at a number of nice bikes out there. What's the exact law on what you can limit down? I know it's up to 94hp (to be limited down to 47), but is that claimed engine horsepower? Or rearwheel power? Or something else?

Would a bike like the zx600D (1990-92) be allowed? That had a claimed 99bhp (engine) at production, but rw was 88, and with age I guess hp would decrease too, right?

[dynax]

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[stevo as b4]

The legislation is based on a bike manufacturers claimed crankshaft bhp figure for a bike. So it's any bike you like that was a brand new <94bhp bike as quoted by the manufacturer, as long as its not so light that it doesn't exceed the allowed bhp/kg ratio for A2.

What bike is it that you've got your eye on that you are desperately trying to interpret the legislation differently using your reasoning and fudge factors that you claim are legitimate points?

I do not get this whole thing that people ask time after time about worn or 10yr old used bikes definitively having less power than stated usually just by the amount required to sneak into the elegibity bracket for a particular license?

No one would ask such a question if they were not trying to bend the rules to suit their argument for a particular desired bike, as that's human nature. But how strange these human things are eh?

[Ste]

[weasley]

To be properly precise, the legislation is based on kilowatts, not horsepowers, so it’s 35kW maximum (derived from 70kW max).
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