Your Bike vs Your Licence

[MSTRS:Me]

Aha......!! A fine example of the fabled "lifetime" licence, DONT EVEN GET ME BLOODY STARTED!!!!!

Yea - t'were 50c to sit your Learners (all theory), 6 weeks riding later , a road test (joke) and you had your full. Old bastards will remember that.

[Swoop]

I ride my 400 on my car licence I never really have been that bothered about licences anyway. Tends to be when I have the money I have no time but when I have the time I have no money!! But when I met Stu, the whole learners/restricted thing didn't even cross my mind, I feel it is more a horses for courses kinda thing, and a CBR250 is probably a lot quicker than my bike anyway.

So you do not have a motorcycle endorsement to your drivers licence then?

[Eurodave]

Who you calling an old bastard???? I still feel 25 on the inside!!!!

[madboy]

I started on my learners with an FZR400. Good learner bike too. But being the head case everyone thinks I am, I pretty soon had to upgrade to something capable of carrying the extra weight of my ego. Now it's only money (got a couple of expensive overseas trips lined up on 2006) that's keeping me off a thou.

I'm in the middle in some respects, I agree with buggy that just cos you have it doesn't mean to say you need to use it (hence why my footpegs are prestine) but I also like to use the power frequently, hence why I have an earpiece for my scanner. Doesn't mean to say I can ride any better or worse than a 250 rider, hell I still struggle to keep up with Velox on her 250, but on the straights or two-up...

[Oscar]

I rode 200/250cc dirt bikes fer years.
I still enjoy a trail bike around the city.
I remember one day we caught up with a Vic Club Tour on the Raglan Road (we were going between sections of the enduro we were marking out). We carved up the bike road bikes in the twisty bits ~ I was on a road kitted YZ250 on knobblies...I quite enjoyed it.

[notme]

Yea - t'were 50c to sit your Learners (all theory), 6 weeks riding later , a road test (joke) and you had your full. Old bastards will remember that.

So what's changed? I timed my restricted test, it took 7 mins. I kept meaning to write a letter to someone about that..... frickin' pathetic.

The only thing that has really changed, is that it cost me $47.50 or summat like that! I reckon the value of it was still 50c though....

[Will]

This has come up quite frequently as of late that a few people have asked or presumed that I am only on my learners/restricted because I own a 250.I can see how they come to that conclusion, but its sad that most people with a 250 are automatically classed as a learner or restricted (Most of them are I know).

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Oh,my gosh.
:slap:

Welcome to the real world.

I have and will continue to face presumptions of my riding abilities or lack of because
1. I don't ride 1000cc (I have a 600)
2. That the bike is small and therefore doesn't go...fast (it has been lowered)
3. That I am a girl ( I haven't quite worked out the connection between testicles and wheels yet)

I am a member of Ulysses and they are the best mates and we don't "measure" our mates by the size of their bikes. In fact some of my Ulyssian mates do not even ride now.

So stand strong and tall. You have nothing to prove to anyone.

[Oscar]

So what's changed? I timed my restricted test, it took 7 mins. I kept meaning to write a letter to someone about that..... frickin' pathetic.

The only thing that has really changed, is that it cost me $47.50 or summat like that! I reckon the value of it was still 50c though....

It's the Gummints secret Darwinian agenda.
Give 'em a licence, then let 'em learn to ride or die.

[skelstar]

I say this alot but I have been on a learners and dont gradute (or have an opportunity to do so) until Jan...Ive done 12,000kms already. Im aching to get a bigger bike mostly for the straight stuff (travelling distance in traffic), $1.10-$1.20 type stuff...less on the hills and twisty stuff...but Ill have to wait months yet. Doing my apprentice-ship big time .

[Coyote]

The only thing that has really changed, is that it cost me $47.50 or summat like that! I reckon the value of it was still 50c though....

Looked like my money was going into the fuel that was being used by the near new HPV Commodore my tester was following me on

[Waylander]

Yeah - i'd like 2 x 250's - one for each buttock.

Holy crap!! You really do make that thing look like a 250.

*Searches camera* Damn, I didn't get a shot of Crashe sitting on it. Ohwell, should have seen it mate.

[Jamiepo]

So you do not have a motorcycle endorsement to your drivers licence then?

Yeah that was what I was getting at

[froggyfrenchman]

i ride alsorts of bikes, but have no ego problems at all with jumping on my girls gn when there is need.

[Sniper]

So stand strong and tall. You have nothing to prove to anyone.

I always have and have never once tried to prove to anyone how good I am. I think you miss the point of the post. I was saying that most on a 250 are classed as a learner/restricted, not as a poor rider

[froggyfrenchman]

Yea - t'were 50c to sit your Learners (all theory), 6 weeks riding later , a road test (joke) and you had your full. Old bastards will remember that.

So your memory goes back that far? not too bad for a codger!