How many motorcycle riders?

[Ragingrob]

I think this might be his bike...

Huh? Lol...?

[Okey Dokey]

I wouldn't have thought there were 450,000 bikers on the road. It will be interesting to hear what response you get from your letter.

BTW, I'd be surprised if many quad bike users have bike licences at all. If they use them on say, a farm, and not public roads, I don't think they would bother to get a licence.

[vgcspares]

riding round daily I would guesstimate that 2 wheelers represent about 1% of the traffic (try counting how many out of 100 vehicles coming the other way) which means there are 4.5 million car drivers on the roads - signs of a Tui ad - if I'm right (that approx 1% are 2 wheelers) then you can halve the ACC's number to circa 200,000

[Mom]

Maybe this number will come down alot in the next 5years....Once the below people that got it almost for free and dont use it , Die ? ?

You may well be right there

Here is the reply received today

Hi Mom

As at 31/1/2009 in New Zealand there were:

56,109 current Class 6 Learner licence holders.

12,740 current Class 6 Restricted licence holders.

418,295 current Class 6 Full licence holders.

Cheers

Very nice man at LTNZ

So, 487,144 motorcycle license holders in New Zealand. I'll be a pickled jelly eel

[Mom]

I have sent the following email;

Hi nice man at LTSA

Thank you so much for your prompt reply, wonder if you can help me a little bit further?

Do the above figures include disqualified licenses?

How many disqualified licenses are there in each class?

Also is it possible to give an age demographic for each license class?

Many thanks for your help.

Kind regards

Mom

[FJRider]

418,295 current Class 6 Full licence holders.

I wonder at the percentage of this figure, that are yet to be "born again bikers". ???

[Mom]

I wonder at the percentage of this figure, that are yet to be "born again bikers". ???

Hence the age demographic question. Now I know a few people that hold bike licenses and dont ride, but going by these figues there are hundreds of thousands of them out there.

Funny little thing I just looked at too...

The active members of KB are around 1% of the license holders.

So we truely are the 1%ers

[FJRider]

Hence the age demographic question. Now I know a few people that hold bike licenses and dont ride, but going by these figues there are hundreds of thousands of them out there.

Funny little thing I just looked at too...

The active members of KB are around 1% of the license holders.

So we truely are the 1%ers

Funny thing I just looked at too... the percentage of "active" members of KB that actually have a bike...

[MsKABC]

So, 487,144 motorcycle license holders in New Zealand. I'll be a pickled jelly eel

Hmmmm Well I do know of at least 3 people who hold m/cycle licences, but have not owned bikes or ridden bikes in years, my Mum and my Dad being 2 of them. So that is approximately 1 in 10 people who hold a class 6? Sounds about right I guess. I reckon that will probably decrease in years to come now that licences are harder to come by and people get less adventurous and ummm...."safety conscious"

[vifferman]

I don't think the number of people with a particular class of license really tells you how many are on the road in that type of vehicle.

Wochoo talking about?!?
I too have classes 1, 2, 4 and 6, and I'm almost always driving all these, often at the same time. Even now, I'm riding my bike, driving my wife's car and a rented truck, while writing this crap on Kiwi the Biker.

[MsKABC]

and I'm almost always driving all these, often at the same time. Even now, I'm riding my bike, driving my wife's car and a rented truck, while writing this crap on Kiwi the Biker.

A man who can multi-task is a rare and beautiful thing

[Crazy Steve]

Also is it possible to give an age demographic for each license class?

The answer to this im interested in.....

Im guessing over 50% of Class 6 Full are over 50 Years old...

Crazy Steve...

[Mom]

Also is it possible to give an age demographic for each license class?

The answer to this im interested in.....

Im guessing over 50% of Class 6 Full are over 50 Years old...

Crazy Steve...

Nothing wrong with being over 50 young man

[Despatch]

Maybe you can perform a census. Check "one" for me...

[Mom]

I hear the "born again" message clearly, it happens. I took a break from riding while my kids were babies, though I did pillion when someone was prepared to look after the lovelies for us. Apart from the late bloomers, I doubt there would be too many mothers on this site that have not taken a "break" from riding. The same can be said for the fathers too in some cases.

Obviously there are some that come to riding a bit later in life too. I think this stuff is interesting. I was genuinely surprised to hear the 450,000 comment, and now even more surprised to hear it is actually much more than that. Can't wait for the age breakdown, then who knows what we can ask