NY has had very recent success in registration:
http://www.chinariders.net/showthread.php?t=18036
If you are going to be doing mainly street driving the hawks tires are definitely not the ones you want to be on. At 50-60 mph things are vibrating and a little squirrelly/vague in the turns.
Off road it is a beast. I have a plate on mine to get to the trails/dirt not to be a street fighter.