Motorway, open road and harbour bridge?

[auvicua]

Hi guys:

I just got my bike yesterday and I'm still on a leaner's plate at this moment. I just wonder am I allowed to get on the motorway, the harbor bridge or even the open road? Since I only can go up to 70ks a hour. Could anybody give me some advice, because I want to go to the north shore during the weekend!
Thanks

[MadDuck]

I just wonder am I allowed to get on the motorway, the harbor bridge or even the open road?

Dont they tell you this stuff before you get your L Plate?

[mikemike104]

I'm on my learners and I just sit between a 100 and 110 , I feel as long as I don't ride stupid I wont get stopped and ticketed. *hopes*

[GOONR]

I went over the bridge 5 days a week on my L, it's only 80kph anyway so no big deal with regards to the L.

My advise would be to get on and off the motorway system as soon as you can once over the bridge.

Oh yeah, enjoy the ride and take it easy.

[GOONR]

Dont they tell you this stuff before you get your L Plate?

Unfortunately not

[GOONR]

I'm on my learners and I just sit on a hundred, I feel as long as I don't ride stupid I wont get stopped and ticketed. *hopes*

There have been a few (not many if I recall correctly) post's on here with people on their L being ticketed for breaching that just after being on the bridge.

[MadDuck]

Unfortunately not

Ok forgive me I wasnt meaning to sound sarcastic. I got my bike license when dinosaurs were still wandering the earth.

That someone has to come to an internet forum to see if its legal to cross the Harbour Bridge at (sorry below) the legal speed is SO WRONG!

[GOONR]

Ok forgive me I wasnt meaning to sound sarcastic. I got my bike license when dinosaurs were still wandering the earth.

That someone has to come to an internet forum to see if its legal to cross the Harbour Bridge at the legal speed is SO WRONG!

Haha. Didn't take it that way MadDuck, there is a lot that you aren't told but are expected to know, I guess it all comes back to personal responsibility at the end of the day.

[mikemike104]

There have been a few (not many if I recall correctly) post's on here with people on their L being ticketed for breaching that just after being on the bridge.

I'll just take my chance's with the rest of the road users I reckon.

[GOONR]

I'll just take my chance's with the rest of the road users I reckon.

Yeah, I don't think it is that common to be pulled up for it if your not drawing attention to yourself, just saying that it can happen.

[Spearfish]

I think for the most part you have the 10k discretion thing so any 80k zone is fine just don't stick out from the crowd to burn up that discretion (not that it legally exists any more). There is a scooter going over the bridge with L plates on in wind,rain or shine most mornings.

[crystalball]

if your worried just take off the L plate and stick to the speed limit. you only get pulled over if you do something wrong, like example, while back 10yrs or so lol, i was on my honda 250 cb travaling along highway one on learners. silly me nooby rider thought i was a big boy and over took a car and semi trailer truck now just managed to get in front of truck just befopr a small bridge and a oncoming truck. meanwhile the car i over took put its sirens on lol (undercover) and my little bike slowed down heaps going uphill. i pulled over onto a road to the left and two guys looked at me in shock lol, i had no L plate and they looked at my licence and then gave it back and said they giving me a warning as THEY ARE JUST HAPPY THEY DON'T HAVE TO CLEAN A MESS UP. LOL, i reakon learners should be able to ride up to 400cc!!

[davereid]

if your worried just take off the L plate and stick to the speed limit.

Never ride without your L plate. Its a license condition, and you will be-insured if you crash in breach of your licence.

The law is complete arse with the 70km/hr restriction, so try and get off the L plate license as quickly as you legally can.

L plates seem to cause aggression and frustration in some drivers. If you are concerned about this, attach your L plate to the left hand side of the number plate, with the L facing forward. It is then legally attached, and clearly visible, just not to the drongo behind you.

If you paint the back of it black, the following driver will be completely unaware that you are on an L plate.

[marty]

If you are really nervous about it, enter the bridge at Curran St, stay in the LH lane, exit at Stafford Rd or Onewa Rd. Plenty of buses and trucks that are going slower than 70km/h over the bridge, so you're hardly going to raise an eyebrow. Once you're over the bridge it's pretty wide open - would be an easy cruise staying left all the way to Esmonde if you felt that way inclined.

IMHO, I would think that the bridge would be less of a stress than the Western/Upper Harbour route

[Nasty]

Ok forgive me I wasnt meaning to sound sarcastic. I got my bike license when dinosaurs were still wandering the earth.

That someone has to come to an internet forum to see if its legal to cross the Harbour Bridge at (sorry below) the legal speed is SO WRONG!

No one has to come to an internet to get this information. Its in the license books. The thing is the interpretation is not too clear.

I think the idea of keeping to 70 km was to keep learners off the motorway (which is rather silly) ...