A noob Policey question

[Mom]

thanks for the comments guys! hmm thats a good point about resale value, should have thought about that. but i think ill go for the 400, just to have a better bike and live for the moment!

By all means buy the 400, as people have said there are plenty that have done it and had no problem with the police, but consider the insurance issue, if you are on finance will mean you have to have insurance and it will be void if you crash.....very expensive........

he sounded like a complete twat, but you know what? just get a 400. you may or may not get away with it. just don't come crying though when you get the $1200 fine plus demerits for no L plate, exceeding 70k, exceeding cc restriction, cause this thread WILL get dragged up

I have booked marked this thread just in case.....

[madandy]

get the 250 mate and get the insurance...plenty of riders have had their bikes replaced by insurance despite the actual circumstances of an accident and the point about you damaging someone elses machinery is very valid!

[Mom]

Yepper, other peoples stuff can be "bankruptingly" expensive to repair.......his call tho eh?

[WarlockNZ]

Its 6 moths ... don't be a dumb ass .. get the 250 and then sell it .. it's people like you my friend that fuck it up for the rest of us.

[Burger]

WAIT!

And then get the 400 with Insurance. Remember, nobody cares but you if you wreck your bike, but if you smash it into a new Bently GT Continental you will regret it for the rest of your financial life.

[Toaster]

man have you got a lot to learn. what happenes when you stove into the side of a $100k merc - unlicenced, uninsured, unloved, unrich...

I agree with Marty dude. The licence restrictions and $400 fines are the least of your concerns if and when it all goes to shit. And believe me it can and it does..... big time. Be careful whatever you decide. You can also get done for No-L plate AND using a bike over 250cc, another $400 each and 25 demerits. Insurance is expensive, but can you really live without it when the comeback on you can be really severe?

In reality, the learners and restricted time periods pass soon enough.

[avgas]

Be careful about your choice of bike- if your busted on cbr/zxr 400 etc.....you may as well give the cops your money now. Something like the 350 goose or a GB400 you can justify becuase they have a slower top speed

[Disco Dan]

well i guess most of us did it.. but posting up on how your planning on breaking the law?? silly silly silly

BUY THE 250 - dont be a fricking prick. The time will pass soon enough.

[SuperDave]

Riding without insurance is stupid.

Say for example you are riding your 400 on a restricted and as a result of this you have no insurance. A car cuts you off and you swerve but there's oil on a road and you tyres tuck and you and the bike go down. You're bike slides and smacks into a 350,000 Porsche or whatever.

Whilst this is not you're fault at all, you don't have insurance. The prick driving the expensive car will probably claim but he'll want to you to cover his excess. Bang, enjoy being slapped a $10,000 bill - TO FIX HIS SHIT.

See with even just a 3rd party insurance, you'd be sweet and have nothing to worry about. However you won't have insurance because you'll be breaching licence restrictions.

Sucks eh? but that's how it goes. An extreme example however.

But it's you're choice.

[duncan_bayne]

In the days of my youth, I found out ... oh, never mind

The one time I got pulled while riding a 400 on a learners was a bad one: I was on an '86 FZR400, at night, speeding, with a pillion passenger, had no L plates, and without my license on me (no pockets on my el-cheapo one-piece leathers from Cash Converters in Palmy).

The resultant fine for breaching so many of my learners restrictions was the final straw; my girlfriend (now my wife) provided the motivation to get around to sitting my test ASAP.

That said, if I'd not been speeding, I'd not have been stopped, and all would have been fine.

Personally, I say buy a cheap 150 (RG, KR, NSR) to suffer through your learners period on (the 250 four strokes are overpriced IMO) and buy a 600 as soon as you're on your full license and can afford it

[Dai]

In the olden days when I first started riding there were no restrictions upon the size of bike you could start with.

The helmet law was that if you went over 30mph (50kph) or on the motorway you had to wear one.

It digress

I remeber lots of stories back then of people buying Kawasaki 500/750 triples and similarly powerful bikes as a first bike.

Most of these stories usually ended in the telling with a visit to the hospital or the morgue.

I started on a Suzuki TS 125 trail bike. Crashed it lots, toured it loads (Auck to Levin being my longest ride). Learnt how to ride, how to read the road and most especially how not to get too hurt when I fell off.

Get a 250. Learn the skills and then upgrade.

[pervert]

The helmet law was that if you went over 30mph (50kph) or on the motorway you had to wear one.

Fuck I wish that was still the law.

[Ixion]

I had a 500 kawa triple (followed a succession of Briddish iron). It tried relentlessly to kill me, plotting malevolently in the gargre all night.

Irealised its intent and sold it after a few months. To another experienced rider.

A couple of years later I came upon the remains in a wreckers, and enquired about it. The guy I sold it to had also gotten wise after a few months, and sold it. To a young guy, his first bike (back then you could ride anything on a learners) . Three weeks after he bought it, he was dead.

[benbuddy]

man have you got a lot to learn. what happenes when you stove into the side of a $100k merc - unlicenced, uninsured, unloved, unrich...

i live in invercargill so that isnt too likely,nd if i do ill figure something out.lol

[RC1]

(i believe) but crashes dont happen too often when everythings safe, id imagine.

yeah i thought i would be safe waiting at a red light only to be rear ended by a cage wrote off my new bike and the cage never assume your safe