Big bike, little license

[Disco Dan]

carryed pillion on learners/restricted
riden out of hours on learners
riden over speed on learners
riden larger cc bikes on learners/restricted[while carring passagers] 500cc, 600cc, 1500cc.
mmmmmm what else, not off top of head.

Never caught on any of the above.

make that two...

[Lucy]

thats bullshit, that has nothing to do with a car getting stolen, most insurance companys wouldnt do that would they?

What others have said already, I agree it sounds like BS cos it has nothing to do with the car being stolen, and we were all shocked at the time as well, but it's because he didnt tell them. So when someone else I knew lost theirs I was worried that they couldnt be insured, but the company was sweet as. It's about honesty. They are a business, they are in it for the money. Loads of Kiwis make bogus insurance claims, or pad out genuine ones. What goes around comes around.

[Indiana_Jones]

Out of hours, out of 70kph speed limit.
Staying within a 250 cc limit for now though.

Same here when I was on Learners. I break the time restrcitions on my restricted, but i think ur insurance might be abit nicer to u for that then going over ur cc limit.

-Indy

[Kittyhawk]

My best mate, rode for 20 odd years and only got pulled up by the cops once. They asked him to lock and leave the bike there, took the keys off him. He walked up the road, and when the cop was gone went back and got the bike.

Not sure on the finer points as to why that happend but he never had a bike licence....To this day he still has not upgraded his paper licence to the card one! (car license that is)

His debating issue is "you buy the licence for a lifetime" and that's what he is sticking to.

I do laugh as he's stubbon on this one and aint going to change!!

[megageoff76]

Hell, I used to ride to college on my nifty fifty when i was only 14 and I was still quite a few months away from able to sit my learners. ..funny that no one thought it was strange that a 4th former was motoring around.

I later rode for about about a year or so on an RZ350 and then an Impulse while on my restricted. Now I only did this because the 400 was such a good deal (and the RZ was dead by then) because i was sick and tired of wasting money on crappy 250's (X-7's) and rebuilding it all the bloody time.

Only ever got pulled up once on my restricted on my then CBR400 for speeding, but the cop never noticed the bike was outside of the licence class.

Wouldn't do it now, but hindsight is great, isn't it?

[riffer]

I always rode what was around.

I started riding at 12, on a Vespa 250, and my Dad's bikes, which ranged from 400s to 750s, from the age of about 14 onwards.

At 17 I had an old ratty IT400, bit of a wreck really.

Then my parents convinced me to go legal at 18 so I got a GP125, and a learners licence.

Got bored with the GP125 and got a CB350 before I got my restricted.

I got stopped a few times but never fined. The cops weren't so anal back then (mid 80s).

[Templar]

To the guys that have said they have Cook Islands licenses, can you use them in NZ? Can you convert those into full NZ licenses?
I have a Cook Island license and need to upgrade my NZ license (have been on learners since 90s), will it work?