Well fuck. Twenty years after getting my licence, I'm gonna need to get my full.
Ta
Well fuck. Twenty years after getting my licence, I'm gonna need to get my full.
Loud and Uncouth
Originally Posted by Drew
Slow learner huh???
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
Ta
Never felt the need for it.Slow learner huh???
Hardcore Punk
Gonna be a proud moment when I go for my bike license, will be a full house then + endorsements. If I can ever get my shit together enough to actually sit the thing.
For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.Keep an open mind, just dont let your brains fall out.
Kruger-Dunning Parts n Service
Some interesting contradictions coming through in this thread.
As the majority on this forum seem to think:
rider training courses are beneficial.
That too many people don't know the road rules (wonder why)
That too man people don't indicate or indicate incorrectly (wonder why)
That too many road users aren't aware of others.
But to make people undertake professional training and submit to a test (so that at least for a brief moment n their life they are forced to acknowledge other road users) nah bro too hard and no benefit aye???
When I did my OE in UK I had to sit their HGV tests as NZ not recognised by EU. The test regime was strict and hard and a different style was needed. Doing that test upped my game and skills big time. Having to train for and pass a test forms good habits at least for a short time with some long term benefits also.
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket - Eric Hoffer
Forum whore
Some time ago, I did all 72 questions for the motorcycle theory exams on line as an exercise. What a disaster,
" Rule books are for the Guidance of the Wise, and the Obedience of Fools"
Forum whore
and that is the New Zealand way.
salty dog
because most of us never learned how to drive/ride properly,
we drive/ride like monkeys in a circus.....
banging into each other and into whatever else is around...
Giving the popo headshed a seemingly valid reason to roll out the tired "bring down the roadtoll" slogan again...
Drivers that comply with NZ minimum drivers standards are shocking....
god have mercy on us all ,since there are plenty of fuckwiths about who can't even be bothered to meet those minimum standards.........
Lets adapt a European styled system, which would fail about 90 percent of people currently on the road,
(permanent confiscate vehicle driven/ridden if unlicenced and sell by auction)
That would bring the roadtoll down......
AND we could do away with the over anal present road policing policies....(also as per European model...)
Opinions are like arseholes: Everybody has got one, but that doesn't mean you got to air it in public all the time....
salty dog
So what you ARE saying is that you havent got your licence.....
you started 1 or maybe even 2 steps of tbe process 20 years ago....
And you have failed to complete same process.
Surely you cant be proud of such under achievements. ?....
Ta
That's certainly one way to look at it, and is not incorrect.
Proud of my under achievements? No. A sad commentary on the system? Much more so.
salty dog
ultimately every person is responsible for his /her own actions.....
it takes a bit of insight and courage to admit one's inadequacies .....
Ta
How am I inadequate in this context? Happy to prove my bike control ability, and knowledge of the rode rules to anyone...
Which reminds me, I must get a warrant on the wifes bike and go do GTRman's course. After the last time I said same, he took me up on my claim.
salty dog
The place to call and prove your claims is AA.......
Doesn't make you a better rider, just proves you meet NZ minimum requirements to legally operate motorcycle on public roads
Thats not to much to ask , surely...?
maybe you are a 100 x better rider then I am, but untill you got your licence that is irrelevant,
being legal would have to be the first requirement
Ta
The one I am doing with GTRman gets me my full also, and is one of those advanced training things at the same time.
If you are suggesting that people cannot trust me to be on the road because of my lack of qualification, we circle back to my point. The state of 90% of road users who are endorsed, is fucken woeful. Why should I bother? It's meaningless. One need only drive down the motorway on a rainy day to prove that beyond any doubt.
salty dog
Ok. You win , the only good drivers/ riders are the ones without a licence...
on same logic level :
I always go through red traffic lights,
coz lots of people get in accidents going through green lights....
Smoking is not bad for you...
coz lots of people get lungcancer, yet never smoked....
start smoking again,
coz I am putting on weight since I stopped
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