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    Bonkers rules

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    The silver Gilera is licenced as a motorcycle. It costs more to licence.
    The rider has to have a motorcycle licence.
    It's allowed to park in a motorcycle space.
    It doesn't have to have a front number plate.

    The blue Tri City is licenced as a car. It's cheap to licence.
    You can ride it with a car licence.
    It's not supposed to be in a motorcycle space, as it's a car.
    Because it's a car, it has to have a front number plate.

    It'd be funny if it weren't true.

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    All three wheelers are for handicapped people so they can park anywhere they like.

    I blame ACC myself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rastuscat View Post
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    The silver Gilera is licenced as a motorcycle. It costs more to licence.
    The rider has to have a motorcycle licence.
    It's allowed to park in a motorcycle space.
    It doesn't have to have a front number plate.

    The blue Tri City is licenced as a car. It's cheap to licence.
    You can ride it with a car licence.
    It's not supposed to be in a motorcycle space, as it's a car.
    Because it's a car, it has to have a front number plate.

    It'd be funny if it weren't true.
    made by the same people who put a 100kmh limit for all vehicles other than trucks on most of our roads probably.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Berries View Post
    All three wheelers are for handicapped people so they can park anywhere they like.

    I blame ACC myself.
    Really? Like, we had some influence on that?

    Still it's always good to have someone else to blame.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rastuscat View Post
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    The blue Tri City is licenced as a car. It's cheap to licence.
    You can ride it with a car licence.
    It's not supposed to be in a motorcycle space, as it's a car.
    Because it's a car, it has to have a front number plate.
    It's a car, but it doesn't need a seat belt...

    It's a car - are you required (as opposed to choosing) to wear a helmet?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jellywrestler View Post
    made by the same people who put a 100kmh limit for all vehicles other than trucks on most of our roads probably.
    All heavy (OVER a set weight) vehicles ... and any vehicles with trailers ... actually.

    Note the distinction ... and try to think WHY that distinction exists ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by rastuscat View Post
    The blue Tri City is licenced as a car. It's cheap to licence.
    You can ride it with a car licence.
    It's not supposed to be in a motorcycle space, as it's a car.
    Because it's a car, it has to have a front number plate.

    It'd be funny if it weren't true.
    If you were still a cop ... you could issue a ticket to it.


    Funny ... because it's true ...

    maybe ...
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    So what’s the fundamental difference between the two three wheelers?

    I understand that’s the point of the thread but I don’t know why one’s a bike and one isn’t.

    Power? Dimensions? Import rules?

    Who gets to choose and how much are they being paid...
    Ginge

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    It gets better.

    On the Gilera, you have to wear a helmet.

    On the Tri City, you don't. True,

    If you privately import a Tri City it gets registered as a bike. If it gets registered new by the licenced importer it gets registered as a car.

    In other news, the people who wrote this set of rules were removed by a van full of men in white coats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    If you were still a cop ... you could issue a ticket to it.


    Funny ... because it's true ...

    maybe ...
    I would have some fun with this rule to be sure.

    I miss the blue suit sometimes.

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    Same people that made the rules for pedal assisted power cycles and power assisted pedal cycles
    Quote Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
    It's barking mad and if it doesn't turn you into a complete loon within half an hour of cocking a leg over the lofty 875mm seat height, I'll eat my Arai.

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    So the distinction is just import status for the three wheelers? It comes down to the certifiers rules vs the OEM rules?

    If it’s first registered in NZ it’s one thing, if it’s imported it’s another?

    Either way I think they’re a branch on the motorcycle family tree that will wither and die.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ginge09 View Post
    So the distinction is just import status for the three wheelers? It comes down to the certifiers rules vs the OEM rules?

    If it’s first registered in NZ it’s one thing, if it’s imported it’s another?

    Either way I think they’re a branch on the motorcycle family tree that will wither and die.
    Pretty much. I reckon the rules will change one day, when common sense prevails.

    Oh, hold on, no chance of that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rastuscat View Post
    I would have some fun with this rule to be sure.

    I miss the blue suit sometimes.
    I hope the one's that did miss you ... did so intentionally.

    It could have been painful.
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    ...as I've always said, better to stay at home and grow vegetables than to go out the gate and have to deal with vegetables...

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