![]() ![]() 2007-38 of the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB), which effectively bans motorcycles under 400cc and three-wheelers regardless of displacement from making use of the expressways. That said, an amendment would have to be made to Department Order No. Granted, all this came before the modernization of the LTO’s vehicle classification system. ![]() In 2018, the Court of Appeals affirmed its decision to retain the ban on three-wheelers from using the expressway. It does, after all, come with a powerful 1,330cc engine. In spite of this development towards the modernization of vehicle classification by the LTO, the question of whether or not three-wheeled motorcycles like the CanAm Spyder can enter the expressway remains. Related: LTO updates classifications for three-wheeled vehicles So now that the CanAm Spyder is indeed a motorcycle without a sidecar, it should be granted passage to the same roads as those of standard two-wheelers. Now what does all this mean? Well, for starters, several local government units have implemented ordinances which place heavy restrictions on the roads which tricycles, or vehicles falling under the ‘motorcycle with sidecar’ denomination can pass through. Furthermore, it now falls under the ‘motorcycle without sidecar’ denomination. In a recent circular issued by the LTO, the CanAm Spyder in particular, has been officially classified as a ‘three-wheel motorcycle’. The same story goes for Canadian high performance three-wheeler, CanAm. Officially registered as ‘motorcycle with sidecar’, these machines are in fact symmetrical three-wheelers, and do not make use of a sidecar whatsoever. Up until recently, three-wheelers like the Piaggio Ape and the Bajaj RE occupied a gray area of the Land Transportation Office’s vehicle registration classification system. ![]()
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