New licencing may hurt!

[Squiggles]

As far as i know, in aus 250 4T's are automatically approved, the power to weight calcs are done on an 80kg rider + the weight of the vehicle, and these apply to anything over 250. 250 2T's are not legal on your learners/restricted licence.

[xwhatsit]

250 2T's are not legal on your learners/restricted licence.

I think it's only certain 250 strokers? I.e. the NSR250, RS250 sort of crowd.

I think those with an old Villiers-powered Ariel Arrow or even an RD250 will be safe.

[90s]

I think it's only certain 250 strokers? I.e. the NSR250, RS250 sort of crowd.

I think those with an old Villiers-powered Ariel Arrow or even an RD250 will be safe.

get ye all into the "legal & politics" sub-forum where this has all been covered.

Trying to sneek around the rules designed to ensure learners have sensible bikes is not ... sensible. No-one should panic about this concerned with the type of bike they are riding (rather than the state of the market), except 2T riders ...

[xwhatsit]

get ye all into the "legal & politics" sub-forum where this has all been covered.

Trying to sneek around the rules designed to ensure learners have sensible bikes is not ... sensible. No-one should panic about this concerned with the type of bike they are riding (rather than the state of the market), except 2T riders ...

Stuffed if I'm going to trawl through all those dozens of pages again, but here's what the LAM list for NSW says:

Eligible Motorcycles in the category 0-260ml.
All models with the exception of:
Suzuki RGV250
Kawasaki KR250 (KR-1 and KR1s models)
Honda NSR250
Yamaha TZR250
Aprila RS250


So if we follow this system (which is pretty much what's going to happen, right?) we'll keep getting to ride our RZ250s around (which is quite alright, as they're not too different power-to-weight compared to a CBR250RR).

[TygerTung]

Choice, you can still ride the unreliable, but barking mad KR250A and B and S model yee-ha!!!! I wouldn't recommend these bikes for a learner, they go pretty hard when they aren't melting front cylinder pistons!!!!

I just looked up the RZ250, and they seem to be putting out 48 hp and with the weight being around 144 kilograms they should go pretty good compared to a CBR with a flat as powercurve maybe 38 hp, and about 180 kilograms!!!