Getting my restricted licesne

[MikeL]

Originally posted by bluninja

The test itself is a pursuit affair with the examiner following and instructing over the intercom.

According to my latest edition of the Road Code this is supposed to be what happens in N.Z. Has anyone gone through this?? Sounds like you didn't have radio comms Andrew?

[MikeL]

P.S.
Andrew, congratulations on passing!

[Marmoot]

Must be the weirdest full licence test ever in NZ:

I did it on my Fireblade (yes, 900) because I had overseas licence where there was no gradation system (so they take it as a full). Then I asked the AA officer how fast I should go (don't want to fail again. 2 weeks prior to that I failed because of going too slow.....40 in 50 zone). He told me "60". So off I went out with 60 all the way around the city.
I passed with full mark.

[bluninja]

I had a UK license, just had to sit a multi choice theory paper...even turned up in a car to take the bike test

TTFN

[Dave]

Got booked a few years ago-passed a cop doing 220k up the motorway,by the time he caught up with me i had left the motorway and was cruising up a 50k road within the limit.
He had been too slow to clock my speed so when he finally stopped me,he did the typical thing and wrote out a ticket for 149k/hr.(the highest ticket he could write without it automatically going to court)
So i took them to task and went to court with it-official charge was for exceeding 100k/hr-i pleaded guilty but told the judge that there was no way i was doing 149k/hr (its the truth).
Judge let me off,no demerits,but as a slap on the wrist he made me resit the practical test-to refresh my memory!
Good fun fronting up to do a test in full leathers on a GSXR750.
Testing cop said go any speed you want-but not too fast and signed off the court oredr straight away.
YAY for the bad guys.

[Andrew]

No, there was no way I had to use an intercom, and just aswell, cos its not the sort of thing you can practice for.

True, the testing officier asked me to stay above 55kph but under 65!

[bikerboy]

Andrew, which testing office did you go to?

I wonder if only the major ones do the intercom thing due to costs?.

[Coldkiwi]

yeah.. road code says you should use an intercom.... but when I did my restricted a few years ago through VINZ, they said they hadn't got organised with that because they would have to deal with the health issue of common earpieces/mouth pieces etc. so they just followed in the car and indicated (lots easier than having some bugger ask you curly questions about hazard avoidance while you're riding!). still the status last year when i did my full.

Haven't heard of anywhere that does use them.

it is pathetically easy though. Mind you... i think if you can prove you've been commuting from howick to the city for 2 years (like I did) and are still alive you should get the full licence by default! no tester is going to assess your hazard identidification and avoidance abilities more than crazy auckland drivers :P