Licence demerit points

[Shadows]

The last one I had was in 1998 in a cage.
The copper knocked off a few k's for various reasons which saved me some money. A good bastard he was. I actually thanked him for the ticket when he gave it to me.

[pritch]

Actually, on the ginny it's my ultimate aim to get a licence-losing speeding ticket! LOL

Actually if you do all the 30kph roadworks at full noise that should do it.
Provided you don't kill yourself first of course.

[GN1NiteStnd]

The very first time I got pulled up was at a routine checkpoint where they were just testing for alcohol. That was last Thursday, about 9.30pm down Omahu Road. My bike and license was all good, not that it mattered.

[shaneh]

clean license until the hornet

2 tickets in 2 months

I bet your Chief Financial Officer doesn't read these forums. We all have our secrets don't we :-)

[XP@]

Got close once (111 in a 50 zone) buy the cop's radar didn't have the right papers.

Since then I've relied on my tin arse.

[boomer]

i lost my licence the 2nd year i was here, for exceeding the bully's star prize. Luckily...? when the woman came to collect my kiwi licence i told her i couldn't find it. her response. "maybe it's at work.. can you please forward it when you find it!"

um.... i guess i best go apply for it first huh! the next 3 months saw me producing my english one and when asked how long i'd been in NZ i used the last entry date ( i travelled overseas alot for work )

just goes to show what a working computer system can/could do for the boys in blue..

2 years ago i transferred my licence and now the proud owner of a clean sheet of paper.. as all the tickets i've had since have been point(s) free.

RIDE SAFE!

* edit, i'm now the proud owner of a Rarotongan licence... so i have even more options

[SwanTiger]

Actually, on the ginny it's my ultimate aim to get a licence-losing speeding ticket! LOL

Hmm, $800 later, it's kinda exspensive! Double what I originally payed for the GN.

[Bend-it]

Most I had ever was 55 pts, from speeding, twice... both over 5 years ago and in a cage...

[idleidolidyll]

never lost my licence but the only time it was ever clean was after spending a year in the Philippines.

when i was new to road riding the bastards ticketed me for going too SLOW in Henderson on my RD350 (25mph). I was following a line of traffic at the time doing the same speed.............................of course I HAD been hooning around just prior to the ticket with loud Bassani expansion chambers crackling.

[idleidolidyll]

i lost my licence the 2nd year i was here, for exceeding the bully's star prize. Luckily...? when the woman came to collect my kiwi licence i told her i couldn't find it. her response. "maybe it's at work.. can you please forward it when you find it!"

um.... i guess i best go apply for it first huh! the next 3 months saw me producing my english one and when asked how long i'd been in NZ i used the last entry date ( i travelled overseas alot for work )

just goes to show what a working computer system can/could do for the boys in blue..

2 years ago i transferred my licence and now the proud owner of a clean sheet of paper.. as all the tickets i've had since have been point(s) free.

RIDE SAFE!

* edit, i'm now the proud owner of a Rarotongan licence... so i have even more options

hahaha! turn about is fair play. I rode as a bike courier in Pomgolia for years on my international licence. The law told me a few times to get a bloody Pommie licence but I never did. Eventually a cop took it off me and I immediately applied for another.

worked from Cardiff. For Urgent Medical Supplies deliveries the cops gave us a roll of stickers to wear around our waists; needless to say we used those for quite a few other jons. With em we could do whatever speed we liked and the law didn't care. Sometimes, when delivering bottom secret computer tapes for the MOD, we'd even get a police escort!

[davereid]

In the good ol days, your points expired so many months after you got them. I think now you have to have two years free of points for them to go. So most of us cheerfully rode around with "almost full" licences, just going slow when one more ticket meant you would lose your licence.

[FilthyLuka]

35 demerit points... 73 in a 50 area...

[idleidolidyll]

In the good ol days, your points expired so many months after you got them. I think now you have to have two years free of points for them to go. So most of us cheerfully rode around with "almost full" licences, just going slow when one more ticket meant you would lose your licence.

nah, the way it works is that each and every ticket drops off your licence after 2 years.
if you get three good ones in a week you're screwed for 2 years and have to tread very carefully.
if you get 2 in a week and then 1 more after 1 year 11 months, in a month the other 2 will drop off and you'll be down to 1.

[Hillbilly]

As far as I know, I've never had any demerit points. Had some traffic tickets, but that's about it. Mind you, I don't hold a Kiwi Licence anymore. It expired 2 years ago and I got a gold NSW one. Gotta renew it every 5 years.

[McJim]

Thanks everyone that responded. Interesting picture showing that the majority of people have been pinged at some time or other. I'm still in the minority of people that don't ride fast enough to get pinged.

I wonder if it's because the Police are targeting bikes or because people riding bikes speed due to a belief that that is what bikes are for.

time will tell.

cheers