Learner speed restriction change

[007XX]

Yep, totally with Sanx on this one...

Once again though, in an ideal world, people would ride according to their ability and not their ego...then restricitions placed by the gummint or whoever would be irrelevant.

*I think I can hear Hitcher in the background, calling me Pollyana again*...

[faredce]

as had been said moving slower than the flow of traffic will cause accidents ie people wanting to pass blah blah blah. if u can get a 250cc bike that is capable of correct road speeds shuldnt we be able to do so??

this was a law thought up by someone in a suit who has never ridin but knows of the "dangers" of motorbikes and allll of the horror stories. tossa

[BiK3RChiK]

So maybe we need to put a poll up or petition the powers that be that the law on this one needs to be changed, because as I read, no-one here knows for sure if the law is going to be changed and I think it needs to be. 70km/hr on the open road is too slow for bikes. I think it needs to be more like 90km/hr. JMHO

M

[Fatjim]

I think that learners should be off the open road. Limit them to roads that are 70kph and less.

[Horse]

I think that learners should be off the open road. Limit them to roads that are 70kph and less.

Honestly, if that was the rule, I wouldn't have bothered buying a bike. So much for all this learning I'm supposed to be doing.

I don't think I'd be alone either.

Edit: also, living in Palmerston North, I wouldn't learn anything about going around a corner that wasn't a right angle intersection.

[Chad]

I think that learners should be off the open road. Limit them to roads that are 70kph and less.

Have to say I don't really agree with this either, but then everyone has their own opinion. I rode from Welly to Auckland and back on my learners without a single mishap or close call. Have more near misses in slower zones just going 20 min to and from work...

Edit: recently heard from someone in a position to comment officialy, that the 70km limit is currently going through the procedure of being scrapped.

[Horse]

Edit: recently heard from someone in a position to comment officialy, that the 70km limit is currently going through the procedure of being scrapped.

Yep, among other things. See much discussion here.

[raftn]

The LTNz website is reulary updated with the new rules check on there for any changes.

[Damantis]

I totally agree with 70 being crap, and prob far more dangerous. I think 90 would at least be more acceptable. I don't know what its like elsewhere, but 90 seems to be a pretty accepted speed in and around Wellington now, wether its due to price of petrol or just the slow retardation of road users that seems to be slowly happening.

And totally agree with the newbie thing. Sure, on the day I sat my skills test, I was pushing 120 on the straights on the way home, simply for the pure pleasure of speed and adrenaline, even though stupid. But my first time over the rimutakas a week or so later I was like a grandma round most of those corners

I Bought my bike on Aucklands north shore, then rode it over the harbour bridge and down the motorway to Manurewa and was picking chocolate buttons outta my undies when I got home. Alot of my riding has been on the open road since getting a license and my first bike. Its alot safer moving with the flow of the traffic and taking the corners at a speed that you are comfortable with. I took my L-plate off about 2 weeks later when I was confident I wasn't gonna stall or perform any other kind of annoyance that a learner plate is there to fore-warn other motorists about. . . It certainly upped my cool factor too!
Fact is, you are very unlikely to be pulled over unless you are speeding or doing something to attract the cops attention. 70 kph on the open road is ridiculous unless you are towing a wobbly caravan. Try riding down the waikato expressway at 70ks and some cage driver will be dialling *555 to get you pulled over for holding up traffic!