Motorcyclists: How many road laws do you break on your daily commute?

**hospitalfood** · 9th October 2007, 12:28

I can't face work without drinking lots of wiskey, so I usually get pissed before I leave the house, after that its hard to remember the rules................or what I do with my day......

**Luckylegs** · 9th October 2007, 12:40

Maybe I should be posting this in 'General Maintenance' but my bike seems to have a dodgy right handlebar.

It looks OK, and dosnt ssem to have suffered any damage but when I touch it it seems to rotate backwards. The left one dosnt do this, so I assume the right one is damaged.

Does anyone know where I can get a new one and how to replace it. I dont know what the previous owener did, but there seems to be some sort of cable connecting the handlebar to the motor...

Please help !!!!!! I think this could be main reason for my constant (Note I voted more than 6) breaking of the law......

**Sanx** · 9th October 2007, 12:56

Originally Posted by Keystone19

4) dangerous use of a motorvehicle (I think that applies to the use of one wheel)

"Inappropriate position on a motorcycle", I think that's referred to as.

Originally Posted by Keystone19

However, I am a responsible, married mother of two children and it is unlikely that any of the above actually occur in reality...

Yeah, and you bring a 'calming influence' to pit lane too

**Swoop** · 9th October 2007, 13:02

Originally Posted by Fatjim

Is doing a wheelie while lane splitting illegal?

So long as you are indicating and have a valid licence it is OK. Positives and negatives cancel each other out, so it's fine.

Einsteins' 23rd theory of the universe or summat...

**dogsnbikes** · 9th October 2007, 13:28

hmmm hard too say all depends on how the coppers enforce the laws i:e got pulled up for doing 145ks copper writes ticket for doing 125ks hence only doing me for excess above his speed limit for bikes

not sure about this one though whats the law on nude pillions and tit flashing or is that reserved for boobs on bikes parades must admit though the firemen flashed there lights in approval

**MaxCannon** · 9th October 2007, 14:10

Well lets see

I'm usually going a bit faster than the posted limit, generally 60 in 50 zones (keeping up with the traffic)

On very rare occasions I've driven on the footpath for a dozen or so meters to get around traffic jams or cars parked in clearways.

I've twice had to ride through pedestrian gates as cars have been illegally parked in our driveway at work.

All in all I can't be that bad.

**Crisis management** · 9th October 2007, 16:03

There are rules?

Who's idea was that, I'm quite happy with doing whatever I want.....no-ones complained (much) about that before.

It's the bloody gummint again init!

**Finn** · 9th October 2007, 16:11

3.6 k's and an average 56 so called illegal moves per day. These include using the give way rule at pointless red lights when no traffic is coming, chronic lane splitting because kiwi's are soooo sloooow off the mark, speeding to make the next green light (one of 25 that aren't sinc'd) and ignoring arrows and no u-turns cause I've made a nice little route up.

Not much of a conformist am I.

**surfchick** · 9th October 2007, 16:14

the 996 has been know to (i don't know who was riding)

open road riding:
odd bursts of bad speeding bad bad bad

but cutting that out now

on the commute :
undertaking...overtaking...lanesplitting
gently speeding slightly...a bit sometimes
pavement dawdling and mildly illegal parking...

quite alot of illegal... but pretty safe really...

actually it all started with cars when i was at uni and stuck for a park at international-house in whitaker place so i used to park on the traffic island

got away with if for years till the cops found the end of that road...

**Toaster** · 9th October 2007, 16:26

I am sure there are plenty who do the often overlooked ones like cutting over the white/yellow lines turning right, overtaking on flush medians, failing to indicate, failing to indicate for at least 3 seconds, following too closely, failing to indicate off a roundabout correctly, failing to stop for amber light or arrow, failing to stop at stop sign, failing to give way, overtaking outside the lane, failing to comply with directional arrow, riding a honda.... the list just goes on....

**Morcs** · 9th October 2007, 16:44

If I ride the cbr then,

1. Wrong Licence
2. Wrong Bike Type
3. Speeding
4. Excessive Acceleration
5. No Rego
6. No WOF

Yeah thats about me on my 6km commute out west. when im on the rvf only 1,2,3,4 apply.