Helmet law.

[Daffyd]

Can anyone tell me when it became mandatory to wear a helmet on a motorcycle? I'm picking it was somewhere in the mid 60's. Thanks.

[onearmedbandit]

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/motorcycles/page-4

[Daffyd]

Thanks for that... I searched for ages and couldn't find it. It must have been staring me right in the face!

[Motu]

When I first started riding you needed a helmet over 30mph, so around town you didn't need a helmet, just on the open road. Never saw or heard of anyone getting a ticket for no helmet, it was just ignored by riders and cops. The first few months they were required at any speed, we forgot a few times, but still never a problem.

[slofox]

When I first started riding you needed a helmet over 30mph, so around town you didn't need a helmet, just on the open road. Never saw or heard of anyone getting a ticket for no helmet, it was just ignored by riders and cops. The first few months they were required at any speed, we forgot a few times, but still never a problem.

Yep. Same when I started.

Just thinking - I will have had a motorbike licence for 49 years this month. And I'm still not dead yet! I'd like to shove that information towards all the doom sayers I waded through when I first got a bike. Trouble is they are all dead now. And I'm not...:whistle:

[GrayWolf]

Yep. Same when I started.

Just thinking - I will have had a motorbike licence for 49 years this month. And I'm still not dead yet! I'd like to shove that information towards all the doom sayers I waded through when I first got a bike. Trouble is they are all dead now. And I'm not...:whistle:

43 yrs for me this year.... and likewise, I've outlived quite a few nay sayers!

[Banditbandit]

43 yrs for me this year.... and likewise, I've outlived quite a few nay sayers!

43 years since I got my first motorcycle - 41 years since I got my licence ...

[rastuscat]

43 years since I got my first motorcycle - 41 years since I got my licence ...


2 years of sin. Naughty you.

[slofox]

2 years of sin. Naughty you.

Hmmmm yeah. First thing I did after getting a bike was to get booked for no licence...only after about two days though, not two years.

[Dadpole]

I bought the bike, learned to ride it then went for my license. That took two weeks then (44 years ago)

Got my first ticket (20 MPH over) and had first crash (85 MPH /135 KPH) and first ride in an ambulance within my first legal (learner) week. :facepalm:

[ellipsis]

...44 years and my first helmet was a red Shoei and I got shit from most riders who said it should be black...nothing has changed apart from helmet brand and not having denim 'protection', and what we generally called 'sandshoes', on the feet...

[pritch]

56 years. Shortly after that I got a ticket and the chief traffic cop told me I wouldn't have my licence for long. So far he's wrong, I wonder what he meant by 'long'? :sherlock:

[Banditbandit]

2 years of sin. Naughty you.


Hmmmm yeah. First thing I did after getting a bike was to get booked for no licence...only after about two days though, not two years.

Yeah .. outlaw bikers rule !

[old slider]

Love how we went from helmet law to when where and how.

After school job at 13yrs of age ended up with my first driving offence using the bosses step through Suzuki to go to the shop, 2nd driving offence was a few months later driving the bosses Bradford van around the block after getting tired of just driving around the yard, funnily enough the boss decided he didn't need me after school after all, so went to Percy Colemans to work after school.

Lost my brand new licence on my brand new AC50 within 3 weeks of getting both. Tried a BSA bantam and a 500 single, Liked my Suzy TC200 then discovered I really liked the TS 250R and adventure rides, took a girlfriend on a wet and windy journey to Wellington on it, she vowed to never get on a bike with me again and she caught a bus home from Otaki, lol.