Scooter riders going to put up our rego costs?

[pritch]

Y' can't blame the salesdude, scrotahs are very suitable for elderly folk.

I seem to recall reading a suggestion to that effect in KiwiRider. I don't think of myself as "elderly" but since the Government is paying me a pension now it's getting hard to ignore...

When I get too old for the VFR I might get a Triumph. If make it to really really old, maybe then a scooter.

Oh, and as of this month it cost me $77.59 to register my moped for 12 months.

[rastuscat]

The problem is that the plonka system allows people to ride without even thinking about it.

Like, a totally never drove a cage person walks into an AA office and gets a learner cage licence. One hour later, without ever having even driven a cage, they go and get killed riding a moped, because the law says they can ride opne on their cage licence.

They have never answered a question about bike safety, rules or legislation, coz the system says they don't have to.Bollocks system.

It's even worse for the mopeds that people are selling as power assisted pedal cycles (even though they take the pedals off and they look like mopeds). These things let people loose with no licence at all, likely no road education, and even a bloody bicycle helmet.

And these two classes of vehicles are going to push up the price of motorcycle registration. Where is the justice in that?

[MarkH]

The problem is that the plonka system allows people to ride without even thinking about it.

Like, a totally never drove a cage person walks into an AA office and gets a learner cage licence. One hour later, without ever having even driven a cage, they go and get killed riding a moped, because the law says they can ride opne on their cage licence.

They have never answered a question about bike safety, rules or legislation, coz the system says they don't have to.Bollocks system.

It's worse than that - they won't get killed, they will get injured (deaths are more likely on the open road on bigger faster bikes). Injuries are worse because we are talking about ACC and injured bikers (and scooter riders) cost a lot for operations/rehabilitation/wages compensation.

I don't mind scooters not needing a license though - they are no faster than a pushbike. But they are not registered as motorcycles, so they should not feature in the statistics for motorcycle crashes. The statistics should be seperated out so that we can be clear that the moped ACC levy is covering the moped accidents and the motorcycle ACC levy is not.