Are you registering your bike?

[motor_mayhem]

Yet another reason for bike ACC rego thingie going up.......most of the dipshits riding bikes without earplugs will be queuing up for hearing aids in later life.

I would rather people didn't wear earplugs while driving, not that they couldn't hear the gsxr catching them, but that they would hear it soonere and be given more warning etc. , not to mention others' more civilised machines

Yep got that figured, next dumb Q how long can you keep a bike on hold for ?

As max said indefinitely, in one go I think you can put on hold for a year, but you can do it online so it's really easy. One of the few things the ltsa has done right is have an online system for buying rego/diesel miles/ change ownership etc.

I own 2 bikes in the 600cc+ category....and a Deseasil 4wd....so I'm good and fucked. The real worst thing is I have a company vehicle to drive, so even the 4wd gets used fuck all. $1600+ a year for prolly less than 5000k a year between them all is hardly fair.

Got a diesel 4WD, rego for 3 months - $151 , just shows people driving other vehicles aren't getting it much better.

[scracha]

I would rather people didn't wear earplugs while driving, not that they couldn't hear the gsxr catching them, but that they would hear it soonere and be given more warning etc. , not to mention others' more civilised machines

Protects your hearing from wind noise. Been said before, loud pipes don't save lives. Car drivers don't hear bikes approaching no matter how loud as the bike is travelling towards them.

[Max Preload]

I had a letter from transhit about my trailer. On hold for 2 years = letter saying "re-register or surrender the plate". Just register for minimum time then back on hold for another 2 years.

Or just re-exempt it...

[Swoop]

Or just re-exempt it...

Nope. Not allowed.

[Max Preload]

Done it myself.

[RDjase]

Yep got that figured, next dumb Q how long can you keep a bike on hold for ?

I have had a car on hold for 18 years,

Must get back onto it at some stage,

I have 2 bikes on hold too

[Conquiztador]

I have had a car on hold for 18 years,
Must get back onto it at some stage,

Tomorrow is gonna be such a busy day!

[motor_mayhem]

Protects your hearing from wind noise.

You have a trouble with wind noise when you're wearing a helmet? I've never noticed it when I am riding a legal speed.

Been said before, loud pipes don't save lives. Car drivers don't hear bikes approaching no matter how loud as the bike is travelling towards them.

You've never been in a car and heard a sportsbike, particularly a V twin winding up to pass you? (let alone a harley etc.)

You've never been lane filtering and seen cars ahead of you move over to give you more room? granted some will be because they looked in the wing or rear view mirror, but I bet some are because they hear the bike coming.

You've never been lane filtering and pulled into a lane because you can hear someone behind you may want to filter a bit quicker than you?

Loud pipes are definitely not a panacea and they are easily beaten by a car stereo at average volume, but I think there are times when they do provide early warning. They are not the defining reason to put one on your bike but I think there are times when they help.

[davereid]

Been said before, loud pipes don't save lives.

They may or may not be heard by car drivers. I think my 650 is heard, but I don't think my BMW is.

But they are both absolutely heard by pedestrians and cyclists, both of whom place an extraordinarily high level of reliance on their ears.

Manufacturers of electric vehicles are so concerned about the danger of silent vehicles, that they are investigationg ways of making them noisier for safety reasons.

Loud pipes save lives, perhaps not the riders, but kids, the elderly, the drunk, and the terminally stupid are slower to step or cycle in front of a noisy biker, than one they did not hear...

[imdying]

Done it myself.

He is quite correct. You can only put a vehicle on exemption if it is currently registered. If it is not, you need to pay the registration due from the date of last expiry to the current date, and then they allow you to exempt it.

[Max Preload]

He is quite correct. You can only put a vehicle on exemption if it is currently registered. If it is not, you need to pay the registration due from the date of last expiry to the current date, and then they allow you to exempt it.

If by 'registration' and 'registered' you actually mean 'license' and 'licensed' my boat trailer came off exemption and I just re-exempted it for nothing.

[imdying]

Tomato tomato?

[Quasievil]

Went online today and put mine on hold, it had actually expired a few weeks ago, so not so sure actually.
Anyway the site to put it on hold is
https://transact.nzta.govt.nz/transa...ion/entry.aspx

Use it, if we all do this and the "take" is lower than previous years we will get a review on it wont we, possibly for the positive, maybe the negative but Im going to fuck it up for them as much as I can, as per the protest

[Max Preload]

Tomato tomato?

Fooked if I know.

All I know is Swoop said his trailer had come off an exemption and he'd been told he had to relicense it or surrender the plates. As a trailer it's not subject to continuous licensing so no back dating, no WoF is required to be relicensed and it's two years from the last license exipry before the registration lapses. And mine came of exemption and I just re-exempted it.

[Hopeful Bastard]

I would rather people didn't wear earplugs while driving, not that they couldn't hear the gsxr catching them, but that they would hear it soonere and be given more warning etc. , not to mention others' more civilised machines

You have a trouble with wind noise when you're wearing a helmet? I've never noticed it when I am riding a legal speed.

Do you have a flip face helmet or a fully enclosed helmet? Cos my Flip face helmet whistles like a partially open window on your car in a hurricane!

I have to Wear earplugs to protect my hearing.

Also, If you are noticing other bikers cutting you off as you approach, Slow down and make it so you are more able to be seen!