L Plate

[u4ea]

i never had mine on until i sat my liscence.took bike to work that day ,realised i never had an L plate................an hour before i had to do my ride i rang the bosses wife to ask her to buy me one from the $2 shop and bring it to the yard........stuck it on ,got back and pulled it off again........

[Free Rider]

Yeah i have L Plate but its all for show lol

[MidnightMike]

I have mine on, pull chicks alright

[McJim]

I always have my L plate on - makes it so much easier to do double the speed limit on a 250! (i.e. with the L plate on the limit is 70 and the VTR will just about do 140 in 4th gear)

[jaybee]

WTF ????????????????????does any 1 folllow this ?/

[Panther]

hey thr,

In my experience L plates r a waste of time, they just attract unwanted attention.

when ive been pulled over Ive never been askd about th absence of a L plate, the cop just wanted to know where my number plate was and y i didnt hav a screen on my bike (she was/is a work in progress), and i just batted my eyelashes and sed sorry officer my number plate fell off, and he sed ok then miss u make sure u get it put on and have a good day now.

so if u want to gaurantee no tickets/fines/hassles get a sex change!

As for the numbness are you wearing winter gloves or summer gloves cos u mite b too cold or watever, but itl pass with time as u relax on the bike.

As a learner are we even sposed to be riding on the motorway anyway?

Anyway I have a new exhaust system on my bike so I'm off to wreak havock in remmas!

[xwhatsit]

Hi there, first post on these forums, sorry to bump an old thread but it's better than starting a new one!

I'm just about to buy a CB250RS and get my learners. Sure beats catching the bus to and from uni/work every day - 160$ a month bus pass! Screw that.

Problem is, I work in a restaurant, and of course don't get home til quite late; most of the time I'm finishing work between 11pm and 1am sometimes. My question is, is if I wear the L plate during the day when I go to uni and pull it off when I ride home at night, how likely am I to get picked up (seeing as I'd be travelling almost every day for 6 months?).

Thanks,

-Tom

[apteryx_haasti]

Problem is, I work in a restaurant, and of course don't get home til quite late; most of the time I'm finishing work between 11pm and 1am sometimes. -Tom

Hi Tom and welcome!

I know it is possible to get an exemption to the L-plate rules. There's at least one thread about it:

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...rner+exemption

That one is about getting a bike bigger than 250cc, but I am pretty sure I read Sunhuntin somewhere on here saying that she got an exemption regarding the hours you're allowed to ride (also for work reasons, if I remember right). You could look up her posts and see if you can find it or perhaps PM her and ask?

[jaybee]

as above dude , i reckon otherwise you would get hassled allmost every night by cops, whats a lonlely bike doing this time of the morning, hmmmmmmm lets stop him and see ,

[Meekey_Mouse]

I'm sure you should be able to get an exemption for that... If yo go down to your local AA store they should be able to hook you up with the papers and info you need for that. Or maybe a your local council building?

Welcome to the site

Jaz

[Ixion]

Hi there, first post on these forums, sorry to bump an old thread but it's better than starting a new one!

I'm just about to buy a CB250RS and get my learners. Sure beats catching the bus to and from uni/work every day - 160$ a month bus pass! Screw that.

Problem is, I work in a restaurant, and of course don't get home til quite late; most of the time I'm finishing work between 11pm and 1am sometimes. My question is, is if I wear the L plate during the day when I go to uni and pull it off when I ride home at night, how likely am I to get picked up (seeing as I'd be travelling almost every day for 6 months?).

Thanks,

-Tom

Exemptions to the curfew rule are readily granted by LTSA. You need to get a form from AA or VTNZ, fill it in, pay $18, include a letter from your employer confirming your working hours and that public transport is not available. Send in the form and you should be good to go. You still have to abide by all the other learner rules.

And welcome to motorcycling. And a very good choice of bike, too.

[ZeroIndex]

Exemptions to the curfew rule are readily granted by LTSA. You need to get a form from AA or VTNZ, fill it in, pay $18, include a letter from your employer confirming your working hours and that public transport is not available. Send in the form and you should be good to go. You still have to abide by all the other learner rules.

And welcome to motorcycling. And a very good choice of bike, too.

wicked, i will have to grab me one of those forms.. due to work times changing, I'm out till 2 in the morning sometimes sorting mail..

[duckaddict]

wicked, i will have to grab me one of those forms.. due to work times changing, I'm out till 2 in the morning sometimes sorting mail..

hard working man eh? or is it...

[xwhatsit]

Thanks for all the replies! I like the looks of this forum hehe. Yeah, I'd heard about the exemptions (my cousin got one for a car), but I thought they only applied to restricted licenses. Well it'd be great if they apply to learners as well! Fantastic. I'll have to check that out when I get my learners this week. Yeah, buses finish around 11.30 weekdays, and 10.50 on Sundays, so I've missed the bus more than a few times. I can't think of a more legitimate reason for an exemption so they should let me have it.

Thanks, Ixion, all I've read about the CB250RS seems to be wonderful... first thing I do when I get it is try and find a round headlight to replace that old-looking square thing. Is $1750 too much for a good-condition 1984 specimin? Or should I ask for less?

Cheers guys,

-Tom

[Ixion]

In general LTSA are loath to give exemptions on an L licence. They think it would be unsafe. So you usually have little chance of one for carrying passengers, riding a > 250 bike etc. But they *usually* look more leniently on the one about hours. And they are usually more lenient on bikes than cars, probably on the basis that we only kill ourselves not other people.

It helps if you have had a car licence for a while, and have a good clean driving record. Being older helps a lot, though you may not want to hear that.

Basically you have to convince them that granting it will not make the roads less safe (it says something to that effect on the form).

Be aware that the exemption may be specifically for riding to and from your work only. They don't always do that, it seems to depend a lot of who you strike at the LTSA assessing it.