Rego costs ridiculous

[awayatc]

Rego costs are expensive but not 'ridiculous'. If you love riding your bike, then what's a couple of hundred extra dollars a year? If nothing else, this trend, as well as the numbers of bikes bigger than 600cc being given away on Trade Me, shows how fickle and fearfully frugal itinerant users of motorcycles are.

it all depends on your circumstances.....

Harley
Aprillia
Diesel landrover to tow the boat...
saab convertable for fun
Subaru to commute

AND I am away at sea for more then half my life.
High reg cost per km......

Oh, yeah also have to register wife and child's runabouts....

( I could indeed sell some "toys", but that is not the point is it?....)

[scumdog]

Rego costs are expensive but not 'ridiculous'. If you love riding your bike, then what's a couple of hundred extra dollars a year? If nothing else, this trend, as well as the numbers of bikes bigger than 600cc being given away on Trade Me, shows how fickle and fearfully frugal itinerant users of motorcycles are.

What does it work out at?

$12 a week or something like that..


less than two RTDs at the pub anyway.

[MotoKuzzi]

I'm taking a strategic view and putting on hold for the winter while I do maintenance, previously I wouldn't have bothered.

[rapid van cleef]

Last year i hardly rode my bike during winter, so i am also using this time for a good clean n polish, full service, and doing household shite at the weekends. with the bike registered as off the road im not happy that my choice to ride the bike if i want to is not a legal option, but there ae worse things to stress about...like which track days to book in the spring.

[pritch]

Crapped on yet again and the MPs keep getting away with it. They must be due another payrise by now surely.....

They are, but it has been postponed until after the election.

[pritch]

Nope. If you are parked on public property, i.e. roadside, they can and will ticket you for no rego/wof.

They will ticket you. You will then tell them that they have breached the Privacy Act and they will drop it. Because they have.

[BMWST?]

my little 2 litre diesel car costs about the same to register as the ol PD.

[rok-the-boat]

Rego costs are expensive but not 'ridiculous'. If you love riding your bike, then what's a couple of hundred extra dollars a year? If nothing else, this trend, as well as the numbers of bikes bigger than 600cc being given away on Trade Me, shows how fickle and fearfully frugal itinerant users of motorcycles are.

Well, my bike used to be my sole means of transport - I might have agreed back then but now I'm married with a kid. My car / wife's car - it's just too much. Can't afford it and we both need our cars for work. It's just down to the bottom line - money rules OK. Anyway, I now have an off-roader and a jetski.

[ukusa]

What does it work out at?

$12 a week or something like that..


less than two RTDs at the pub anyway.

And when I use mine on average twice a month, that's $24 per ride! Hmmm, doesn't really seem that cheap to me.
Maybe I should just go to the pub every fortnight & have 4 RTD's instead. Maybe that's what the Govt want, they'd get more tax through the alcohol sales wouldn't they?

[Voltaire]

The Ducati I bought 3 years ago is now worth less than 1/2 what I paid for it...but its earning its keep as the 'Work Hack' now...
Nicest, but probably not the most practical commuter bike I have ever owned..

[KiwiDNA]

I registered my Gilera DNA 180 as a 50 as they look the same and I rarely take it on the motorway

[popelli]

Rego costs are expensive but not 'ridiculous'.

The rego costs in NZ are ridculous - most of the cost is ACC and it is totally ridiculous if somebody has 3 or 4 bikes that they pay ACC 3 or 4 times when they can only ride one bike at a time

It would be far better to make ACC part of your insurance costs and make insurance compulsory and have premiums based upon actual risk not a arbitary figure dreamt up by some nameless statistician

[Clivoris]

Insurance plus rego were costing me over $1100 per year. Too much for my current financial situation, especially when I might ride 1-2 times per month even in summer. Might as well spend that money on racing, if I can sell the Aprilia.

[YellowDog]

The rego costs in NZ are ridculous - most of the cost is ACC and it is totally ridiculous if somebody has 3 or 4 bikes that they pay ACC 3 or 4 times when they can only ride one bike at a time

It would be far better to make ACC part of your insurance costs and make insurance compulsory and have premiums based upon actual risk not a arbitary figure dreamt up by some nameless statistician

Now don't be silly

That system works everywhere else in the developed world.

It is therefore not an option for New Zealand

Compulsory insurance would mean that 15 or 16 year old kids couldn't legally hoon around in 5-litre vehicles and would have to drive something appropriate to their experience and budget.

If you have a crash and you are insured, ACC gets away scott free. End Of. Why is this not a solution to the ACC fiasco?

Therfore the ACC part of your rego fee will reduce from way to much, to very little.

Insurance premiums would rise and I guess that for those NZers whom are used to a Rolls Royce service, they would pay more.

I have suggested this more than one time however no one acknowledges that it is an answer of any kind; so thanks

[popelli]

Insurance plus rego were costing me over $1100 per year. Too much for my current financial situation, especially when I might ride 1-2 times per month even in summer. Might as well spend that money on racing, if I can sell the Aprilia.

That is exactly what the govt is aiming for is to price motorcycles off the road because they are perceived as dangerous and costing the country too much in compenstation

I wonder why all the green tax incentives for reducing traffic congestion and better fuel economy (except that the modern crop of sports bikes use more fuel than many cars) aren't being used to cross subsidise the ACC cost of bikes?