If REGO costs do increase ... what would you do?

[Swoop]

It is gonna make riding during winter even MORE fun, with all the extra cars on the road (containing frustrated bikers...).

[Nibblet]

If these prices do go ahead would they not increase the fines and possibly add demerit points to riding without a rego knowing that people will not be able to afford it, and that pulling 10 people over will most likely result in 7 being fined?

Or is it just my paranoia and lack of trust in the goverment?

[McJim]

nice bikes ..


my hairdresser, yoga instructor and manicurist all ride those ..

Then you're a bigger poofter then I thought.. even I don't have a yoga instructor, a hairdresser or a manicurist.

And I'm keeping the Duc coz it's obnoxious.

[Stan]

I'll be putting the rego on hold from March to September but I'll ride it when I like. I figure I can get caught twice a winter for no rego and still save $. I've been stopped a few times for speeding when my warrant and/or rego were expired and the cops never spotted it so I'm feeling bullet proof ;-)

[twotyred]

If these prices do go ahead would they not increase the fines and possibly add demerit points to riding without a rego knowing that people will not be able to afford it, and that pulling 10 people over will most likely result in 7 being fined?

Or is it just my paranoia and lack of trust in the goverment?

Yup,the Po-Lice will be salivating at the new revenue collection potential... expect them to pull over bikes far more often and have organised "checkpoints" targeting all bikes that come past

[Disco Dan]

I certainly wont buy another motorbike if it will cost me that much just to register it. The temptation to let it lapse would be too great especially with a car to keep maintained as well.

[rok-the-boat]

How much is farm rego? How about if a farmer owns all our bikes and gets rego for them all?

[MarkH]

Seeing as it's my only form of transport I have no choice but to get it for the year....

There are always choices.

If they didn't change the fine for no rego then I would consider:
a. putting the rego on hold and chancing the fine.
b. putting the rego on hold, but paying for 3 months rego through summer (then back on hold) and taking my chances for the other 9 months.

If they quadrupled the fine then I would probably begrudgingly pay the rego every year.

I only own one vehicle and I need it to get to customers to earn money to live on.

[kwaka_crasher]

only if you take it off hold before the agreed time period

No. You only pay back to the beginning of the exemption if you relicence within the first 3 months of the exemption period. That's regardless of the length of exemption you've applied for. Always exempt for 12 months - then you can relicence any time between 3-12 months without incurring any backdating of licence fees.

When you renew an exemption, the 3 month minimum applies just as it does for a new exemption. That is to say, if you exempt for 3 months, re-exempt for 3 months upon expiry of that exemption then relicense 2-1/2 months into the renewed exemption, you'll have to pay the 2-1/2 months license fee. If you had simply exempted for 12 months, you wouldn't.

[gazmascelle]

No. You only pay back to the beginning of the exemption if you relicence within the first 3 months of the exemption period. That's regardless of the length of exemption you've applied for. Always exempt for 12 months - then you can relicence any time between 3-12 months without incurring any backdating of licence fees.

When you renew an exemption, the 3 month minimum applies just as it does for a new exemption. That is to say, if you exempt for 3 months, re-exempt for 3 months upon expiry of that exemption then relicense 2-1/2 months into the renewed exemption, you'll have to pay the 2-1/2 months license fee. If you had simply exempted for 12 months, you wouldn't.

Wish I knew that back when I stacked my mitsi.. ah well no big loss