L plates and speeding

[Lee Rusty]

allowed for "speedo error" is 5% so at 50pkh you will get away with 52.5kph at 53 you get the ticket if the cops a stickler for the rules.

[gamgee]

i thought it was a 10km/h error range, 5% is in australia etc.

[Ramius]

i thought it was a 10km/h error range, 5% is in australia etc.

Points for you!

[Lee Rusty]

now it aint

[gamgee]

since when? do you have any proof of this because it's not like they can say "right we're going to change from a 10km/h error range to a 5% error range because everyone's speedo's are accurate now" i know for a fact that my speedo on my old bike was out by about 10km/h because everytime i went through one of those acc things that shows your speed i'd go through at about 60 and it would show up as 51-52ish

[spudchucka]

I've seen nothing to say there is a change away from the 10kph tolerance that is currently in practice.

[Ixion]

I think maybe this is a compliance thing (ie the standard when registering a new bike) - not a cop thing?

[vifferman]

It's been a long time since I heard the term "provisional" for a licence - feeling quite ancient, now.

Yesah, that's it. Ancient. I'm nearly had it.

[Lee Rusty]

your local LTSA

[Pancakes]

This is pretty interesting reading for me (got learners last Thursday and been commuting the NorthWestern daily since) and I was thinking the same thing, no L plate and your sweet to 100 unless you do something dumb enough to look like your worth pulling over. I've got the plate on because I'm a little angel like everyone else on two wheels of course but when the motorway frees up god help you if your still doing 70 infront of those cars (especially with the sun in their eyes like it is right now). I've been lane splitting too and saw a bike cop who just nodded to me so I said hi (nod) back but a picture of my wifes angry face last time I got a ticket did flash before me, she's so much scarier than any cop.

[flash]

when i got my learners licence the first thing i did was put on a plate, much to my fathers shock
But about a week later it actually broke off itself and i never bothered putting another on (witch i wouldnt)
As for the speed part, ive never gone 70km in a 100km zone, its just plain dangerous, ild rather get the ticket than getting bowled by a truck trying to pass me for being slow

just my 2c

[raster]

I travel between 80 and 90 on motorway and found it not too bad, kept left and watched for merging traffic.

Can't say it wasn't scarry but then I have only spent an hour total on the Mway.
I spend that much time twice a day in a cage.

[N4CR]

I'm usually never on the motorway because I don't have to go that way etc, but today I was on it going to te-atatu for my IT contracting job (just after the truck hit the bridge... only a 100m que when I was there). On the way there I noticed a police van chocka with police slowly bearing down on me.. while I was being all innocent in the Slow lane behind a van doing 80~. They slowly caught up and then sat behind me, while I just kept with the traffic. Got up to 95~100 at one stage and they didn't even care. L plate flapping away like nuts too.

I do get weird looks from cop bikers when I'm in the slow lane (probably expect me to lanesplit and wheelie my way down the mway ).

So as far as my limited time with the police is concerned, they don't mind on the mway.

[Lias]

I only ever had a L plate on for my restricted test.

Never got pulled over once in 6000+km of tootling around on the GN250 with no L plate on while a leaners. Only time I've ever been pulled over was when I was driving around the neighborhood familliarizing myself with the bike before I did my basic handling skills (IE no bike license).. Even then the cop was reasonable about it, it was just down the road from home and he accepted that I was just getting used to the bike before doing my license.. He gave me a $400 fine for wrong class of license (car not bike) but wrote on it that if I got my license within 28 days it would be waived.. I did and it was. One of the better experiences I've had with the law :-)

[Str8 Jacket]

I only ever had a L plate on for my restricted test.

Never got pulled over once in 6000+km of tootling around on the GN250 with no L plate on while a leaners. Only time I've ever been pulled over was when I was driving around the neighborhood familliarizing myself with the bike before I did my basic handling skills (IE no bike license).. Even then the cop was reasonable about it, it was just down the road from home and he accepted that I was just getting used to the bike before doing my license.. He gave me a $400 fine for wrong class of license (car not bike) but wrote on it that if I got my license within 28 days it would be waived.. I did and it was. One of the better experiences I've had with the law :-)

Yea, everyone seems to lose their L plates till they sit their restricted. I felt that I needed mine, as I hade never ever driven on the road, so it was a HUGE, big new experience for me in so many ways . . .
I still go between 90-100 on the motorway withthe L plate, but am actually going to "lose" it this week.