Too old to ride the bike?

[Elysium]

For bikers when they get too old to ride their beloved bikes.

Sorry if a repost.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Quads-ATVs/auction-184900658.htm

[Ixion]

I thought I'd just acquired a walking disability. Then I saw the price.

[Hitcher]

It's a fucking motor vehicle. How on earth can it get dispensation to use footpaths and walkways? Have our regulators gone barking mad?

[Cajun]

someone really taking the piss arn't they

that some a 150cc 4 wheel bike, with a bucket seat and some high rise bars on it

[vifferman]

It's a fucking motor vehicle. How on earth can it get dispensation to use footpaths and walkways? Have our regulators gone barking mad?
Yes. Woof woof. :crazy: Arf arf. :weird:

There's no regulations to cover gopeds, those horrible Segways, and other non-roadworthy motorised vehicles.
But perhaps that's as it should be...

[slofox]

Hmmmmm...I might trade up to one of them...

[Naki Rat]

Think I feel a relapse of my dodgey knee coming on. Wonder if my ACC case manager will see thinks my way... ? I want one :scooter:

[Ixion]

I think the bit about being allowed to use it on DoC tracks and such like (assuming the user is genuinely disabled) is correct. The bit about using it on footpaths is wrong.

[laserracer]

:eek:thats one expensive 150cc quad.. damn for $16000 i would want somthing faster than 50 kph
..now if it was 150kph thats more like it

[Hitcher]

I don't see why the ability, or lack of, of the user of a vehicle has any materiality on where it should be allowed to go. With the exception of parking spaces.

[Roki_nz]

Thats what i'm getting when i grow old :)

[Hitcher]

This whole thing smells like a rort, designed to be funded by gullible NZ taxpayers via ACC or WINZ.

[fliplid]

Available with tracks on it for all of those awkward to get to places off road?

[Ixion]

I don't see why the ability, or lack of, of the user of a vehicle has any materiality on where it should be allowed to go. With the exception of parking spaces.

Most areas administered by DoC have roads and walking 'tracks' (often quite wide and easily navigable by a bike. But motor vehicles (and often horses and bicycles too) are always strictly forbidden. Except, for a dispensation for the 'disabled'. Which varies as to what is dispensed it was intended to allow powered wheel chairs (the sort of thing Mr Grahameeboy's daughter has).And, of course, you have to be genuinely disabled, as in unable to walk.

So , stretching a very long bow, a genuinely disabled person *could* claim that this thing was a mobility aid for a disabled person and please unlock the gate. Dunno how often you'd get away with it though.

[PZR]

All rrrrright it comes with fishing rod holders if required, how cool is that. Oh hang on a sec!
I hate fishing!!!

[Elysium]

I would like to see someone try to ride on of these into a supermarket.:laugh:

[<Rhino>]

I would like to see someone try to ride on of these into a supermarket.:laugh:Damn right - 150cc engines hardly gonna be very quiet is it!! All its missing is the gun rack!

[Elysium]

Damn right - 150cc engines hardly gonna be very quiet is it!! All its missing is the gun rack!

Well the way some of these mobility scooters are hooning around these days it wouldn't suprise me.

[Forest]

I think it is genuinely awesome.

If I was disabled, I'd love to be able to go out and enjoy country walking tracks.

[oldrider]

My young fella (44) has been banned (by the authorities) from riding his mobility scooter because of "excessive" speed!

His eyes just lit up when I showed him that one!

He looked at all the pics and said "I could ride that" lets get one!

Just can't get him to focus on the price though. :crybaby: John.

[Insanity_rules]

I would like to see someone try to ride on of these into a supermarket.:laugh:

Me too..... Or a church or somewhere else that requires decorum. I'd have a go!

[MsKABC]

It looks like one of those things designed to do a little of both, and ends up doing neither particularly well.

[clmintie]

I repair geriatric hospitals for a living..... Man you should see the damage the slow electric ones cause... I see lots of over time in my future........