Imaginative Location of L Plate

[WarlockNZ]

As I've said - all we need to do is have 300 motorcycles meet up and keep clogging the motorway at 70kph - we won't be breaking the law but will certainly get noticed!

I am so there !!! .. i'll even attach an L plate ... lol .. make it an event man .. go on!! ... you know you want to.

[toymachine]

When i was working at a site just across from the Botanic Gardens in sth auck, there was a bike going up and down the road a few times with an L Plate slightly smaller then a post-it note hanging just above the numberplate...

[sunhuntin]

i wear mine. it got one corner chopped off as it was blocking the indicator, the tyre had a munch out of the opposing corner, and now theres a crack appearing on another corner! ive been stopped at rego checks twice, and nothing was said about it. it may as well not be there, but i cant afford the fines.

[lukelin250]

cops discretion kind of thing. anyone been fined? speak up

[McJim]

I wore my L plate at all times when I was a learner - I would commute to Auckland City from Botany every day - I'd pass the police at the Mt Wellington on ramp doing maybe 80-105kph dependant on trafic flow - had a friendly wave from a bike cop once but never got stopped.

If you don't ride eratically the police will leave you alone. If you start splitting at silly speeds or swerving around like an arsehole you'll get stopped L plate or not.

[hamie1]

I've been stopped a couple of times, but nothing has even been said - lucky or maybe just plain to busy cops. I wasn't stopped for being a dick, just a RANDOM stop - my arse . Waikato cops seem to want to make sure you have a WOF and REG and know they are there rather than to check you are wearing a 'treat me like an idiot' sign on the back. Does it matter what they pull you up for or what you do as a job when they ask? It obviously shouldn't - but does it?

[McJim]

Does it matter what they pull you up for or what you do as a job when they ask? It obviously shouldn't - but does it?

It got a bit uncomfortable that time the constable asked what I did for a living and I said "contract killer'" and showed him my walther ppk.

[Ixion]

Fine fish, and you claiming to be a Glaswegian n'all. A proper Glaswegian contract killer wouldn't need no gun, he'd just head butt his victim to death. So the cop would of known right off that you were lying.

[Viddy]

I've got a copy of the 2006 motorcycle road code, and on page 7 the first bullet point says:

you must have an 'L' plate (as shown at right) attached to the rear of your motorcycle

Thats it. Nothing about being visible.

Shit:
http://www.landtransport.govt.nz/lic....html#l-plates
Seems they must be visible.

Sorry fellas. (and fullaresses)

[Roj]

there must be a way to get the law changed ... oh yeah .. there is ... it's called a petition .. if enough people want to make a change to the law then the people who make the laws can't turn a blind eye.

I would aggree that it should be changed but you must be in a different country to the one I am in, there has been petitions and referendums to get the number of politicians reduced, but we still seem to have the same number telling us they know best

[vifferman]

The whole thing is rather stupid, and a case of the SafetyNazis coming up with a law that has no practical point.
So, what is it for?!?

SO that cops can spot you easier and pick on you? (How does that benefit anyone?)
So that other drivers can cut you some slack and be more patient? (Yeah, right!)
So you are protected from bad luck/kharma/food/grammar while learning?

I'm just glad that I learned to ride back in the good old bad old days, when you just paid your 50c for a 6-week learners licence (and supposedly had a tiny special rego sticker on your plate, or not), and supposedly rode a 250.
Or not.
Then when you were ready, you took your test, and the cop said, That your bike? Meet me around the other side and we'll go for a blat!"

[Roj]

I'm just glad that I learned to ride back in the good old bad old days, when you just paid your 50c for a 6-week learners licence (and supposedly had a tiny special rego sticker on your plate, or not), and supposedly rode a 250.
Or not.
Then when you were ready, you took your test, and the cop said, That your bike? Meet me around the other side and we'll go for a blat!"

I remember that, had to get the special L rego sticker, the cop asked me to do some figure 8s, then gave me my licence... I then went and pealed the L sticker off again

[lukelin250]

fuck the storys of yesteryear sound great. i hate growing up in this PC Bullshit world. i cant stand these knobheads trynna wrap everything up in bubblewrap grrrrr