Dangerous........Define Dangerous.....

[The Stranger:Me]

I know LB had his dangerous charge reduced to careless for pulling a stoppie.
The car behind him was a cop.
Surely a wheelie is no worse, sounds a bit harsh.

When I was in court on Tuesday for my dangerous some guy was facing dangerous for sustained loss of traction. Quite humerous really cause the judge goes, that is an expensive car I doubt it was intentional. I wanted to yell out "yeah right". Anyway, is that a reality, like can you be charged with dangerous for a sustained loss of traction? If so I suppose they could argue that a wheelie produced a sustained loss of traction.

[Forest]

unfortunately a conviction for dangerous carries a minimum of 6 months disqual.

So a wheelie is now considered a license losing offence?

That's just fscked up.

[scracha]

Bugger...............this guy must have been having a bad day...i was only doing about 120/130....

Oops..never read that bit first time around. I'd say you're @#$cked.

[marty]

only since the Transport Act of 1962

scratcha has the right idea

[adiddy]

did he get your speed?!

mmm yeah
JUDGE "your cars worth what $150,000 has 500hp i dont think it was intentional you wouldnt wanna write that off...." yeah right
man things they get away with , youl be all gud lol say you wouldnt wanna fall off as you have seen what happens to others and that all was under control

[adiddy]

I'd try and stress the point that you were cresting a hill within the speed limit as opposed to hoisting a huge minger at 130kph.

"The bike's rather light at the front m'lud and sometimes the front wheel lifts. It's a daily occurrence and is under full control. Would I get penalised for dangerous driving if I drove over one of our highway's numerous potholes and one of the wheels came of the ground? What's the difference? I appreciate it may have looked rather frightening to someone not used to motorcycles m'lud but the same could be said about leaning over to go round a corner. "

yeah mate , right idea A+

[98tls]

Oops..never read that bit first time around. I'd say you're @#$cked.

yea but i never got a speeding ticket...in fact i dont even think he clocked me...cant have....just got all excited when he saw the underside of the sump comin down the road and the front wheel ahhhh.....skyward.....

[Kyle]

Ive heard that wheelies can be classed as 'sustained loss of traction' which would get ya instant impound and loss of license for 30 days.

Dangerous is not a good charge to get, 6 months loss of license is standard spanking for that one. You could say not guilty and it`ll get stood down for a rehearing. if your lucky like i was, the rehearing was a few months, and then you can say not guility again and get another stand down. In the end to avoid paying any lawyer costs i just said, guility and got the standard fine, 6 months loss. but at least i kept my license for over a year since the offence.

And then you can not pay the fine and it will go to court for unpaid fines, and you can plead that you cant afford it, say you sold the bike or they might try to sell it for you, do a few days PD work and fines gone. I managed to turn four grand fines into 5 days PD work. Thats 6weeks periodic detention for you young man (sounds bad huh) well turned out it was one day a week, lunch supplied, (opps missed the first one thats breach of PD) first time? ok we`ll let you off this time, 5 days work, 4grand dusted. The things we learn as young stupid people.

These days i drive to protect my licence, my full motorcycle licence is like 'the one ring' to me, My precious!!

[Clivoris]

Oh man! That sucks the kumara It's probably worth trying to get it downgraded to careless driving but I wouldn't have a clue how to do that cheaply.

[chanceyy]

hmm guess you can not get away with spring fever then ? (whats that song " i feel good...")

defend it .. really you have nothing more to lose .. & at the start of the hopefully sunny weather .. bugger

other thing is 6 months can go pretty fast .. & you can apply for license to get to work etc .

guess your but take ya Live & learn huh

[98tls]

i do have a mate that works in a bike shop............maybe he could diagnosis a sticky throttle cable...............

[maneac]

i got caught doing about 90 in a 50 seen the lights come on carried on then finally got caught got done for dangrous driving loss my licence for 6 months $1500 fine and 60 hours c/service

[chanceyy]

i got caught doing about 90 in a 50 seen the lights come on carried on then finally got caught got done for dangrous driving loss my licence for 6 months $1500 fine and 60 hours c/service

is that cause you was doing 40ks over the speed limit or not stopping or both .. cause doing a runner ( carrying on) does not bode well

[maneac]

is that cause you was doing 40ks over the speed limit or not stopping or both .. cause doing a runner ( carrying on) does not bode well

i think the fine and loss of licence was for speeding and c/service was for falling to stop for red and blue lights

[spudchucka]

Ive heard that wheelies can be classed as 'sustained loss of traction' which would get ya instant impound and loss of license for 30 days.

Nope. Sustained loss of traction relates to the driven wheels, ie: A Burnout.

Wheelies will attract dangerous driving or careless driving charges depending on the circumstances.