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    Quote Originally Posted by knee_scraper
    I guess its hard to enjoy my bike on my learners.
    Yes. It is. But it wont be long...

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    Said it before and here it is again. Andie Knackersinasack is the prat responsible for these sorts of ridiculous rules. You can't appeal to his logic cos there is none. And you can't vote him out of office either.
    Tis better to use the L plate but FFS go with the traffic flow when in 100k zones
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    wow. $400??? for no L plate.

    you sure you weren't riding a Hyabusa on your learners?

    did it have a rego and warrant???

    i would have thought the no L plate fine would have been around $50???

    how can they find you $400 for no L plate but only $200 for no rego???

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    Quote Originally Posted by MSTRS
    Said it before and here it is again. Andie Knackersinasack is the prat responsible for these sorts of ridiculous rules. You can't appeal to his logic cos there is none. And you can't vote him out of office either.
    Tis better to use the L plate but FFS go with the traffic flow when in 100k zones
    And someone give him a new haircut.....its so 90's
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lazy7
    wow. $400??? for no L plate.

    you sure you weren't riding a Hyabusa on your learners?

    did it have a rego and warrant???

    i would have thought the no L plate fine would have been around $50???

    how can they find you $400 for no L plate but only $200 for no rego???
    Right there is the logic we are talking about.
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    He pulled me over for exceeding the limit by 13kmh. That was $80, then he gave me $400 for no L plate.

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    So exceeding YOUR 70kph limit or the 100Kph limit? Either or, you got stung.
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    yes I had war and reg

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lazy7
    i would have thought the no L plate fine would have been around $50???

    how can they find you $400 for no L plate but only $200 for no rego???
    The no L-plate thing comes under the umbrella of breaking your licence conditions, which there is a $400 fine for each offence. eg. Carrying a pillion on your learners/restricted, exceeding 70km/h on your learners. Riding after 10pm yadda yadda.

    Its pretty fucked up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Devil

    Why dont people just do something about the law that says you have to have an L plate instead of giving the cops shit for doing their job.
    Just doing their job.
    F%^K I hate that excuse!!!
    I understand that came up a lot at the Nurenburg tirals too.
    I mean hey if it's your job you got to do it right?
    It's your job, you can't possibly change it can you?
    You can't possibly use any discression, after all it's your job.
    Well get another f&*ken job useless bastard!

    It's like "company policy", how may times do you get hit with that one? The ultimate defences Company policy and just doing my job.
    both of which usually elict a severe and unpleasent response from me.

    They are just euphemisms for
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    There's a lot to be said for working within the cistern.....I mean, system
    Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaN
    Just doing their job.
    F%^K I hate that excuse!!!
    Woah woah woah. Are you saying that if cop X thinks law Y is trivial that he should just ignore it?

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    Sheesh i didn't know the fine for no L-plate was THAT horrendous! I feel for you KS, $400 is a great sum for a lowly student to afford.

    I believe the general consensus on KB over the years has been to ditch the L-plate and make up excuses *if* you get caught...i spose that is actually bad advice considering the penalty...IF the copper decides to enforce it that is!

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    I'll be fucken damned if I'll ever ride with an 'L plate', look at the treatment people in cars receive let alone those on motorcycles.

    Question is though, were you exceeding your 70kmph limit or the road 100kmph limit?

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    Quote Originally Posted by swantiger
    I'll be fucken damned if I'll ever ride with an 'L plate', look at the treatment people in cars receive let alone those on motorcycles.
    Exactly.

    Virtually every other learner I know never has one on their bike either. I mean, why advertise breaking licence conditions both by travelling at 100km/h and being out after 10pm, with your L plate on? If you get pulled over, you should fully expect to have the book thrown at you. You don't have to like it a great deal, but you have to live with it.

    Your trouble is you were doing something that gave the policeman an excuse to pull you over - you were doing more than 10km/h over the posted limit. It's a bummer, especially when it's so trivial like your speed, but so many times they'll pick up other things in general inspection - no WOF, no REG, unsafe vehicle modifications, breaking licence conditions... and it's too much money too easily for them to let you off. They have their quotas to make after all.

    Nasty way to do it, but welcome to KB.
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