Can I avoid the registration ripoff by getting a dealer plate?

[Bassmatt]

Neither your car nor your bike is actually a "hearse / non commercial ambulance".

I take people to the hospital for free all the time, that sounds like a non commercial ambulance to me. And if you metme while driving my father I could probably convince you my ute was also a hearse.

[davereid]

I would have to register as a vehicle trader, but since I would be the worst "dealer" in the world because I can't ever sell for more than I buy for, it might work out?just an idle thought.....http://www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicle/regi...rs.html#status

You can buy number plates with the same reg as you already have, or make them yourself (I have the font p.m. me) or if not as lazy as me simply move plates between bikes.

Pray they move to ANPR cameras, then use the one plate on all your bikes.

A Human being may see a fat hairy man on an unlicenced Harley Davidson.

An ANPR camera will see a teenage girl on a fully legal moped.

ANPR will be the tool that enables me to enjoy another ten years without licencing.

God bless technology and its idiots.

[Paul in NZ]

There was a 'collector' class at one point but not widely adverised....

[MIXONE]

You can buy number plates with the same reg as you already have, or make them yourself (I have the font p.m. me) or if not as lazy as me simply move plates between bikes.

Pray they move to ANPR cameras, then use the one plate on all your bikes.

A Human being may see a fat hairy man on an unlicenced Harley Davidson.

An ANPR camera will see a teenage girl on a fully legal moped.

ANPR will be the tool that enables me to enjoy another ten years without licencing.

God bless technology and its idiots.

Amen to that.

[Twosixty]

Looks promising to be a repairer but it seems you can't be more than 50km from your address - annex a & b.

[hayd3n]

Looks promising to be a repairer but it seems you can't be more than 50km from your address - annex a & b.

there quite a few nice roads round here within 50kms taeri mouth, over to waitati
portabello road some of the road to middle march, to name some

[tigertim20]

there quite a few nice roads round here within 50kms taeri mouth, over to waitati
portabello road some of the road to middle march, to name some

true, but he is in Blenheim. so no rides to nelson and further afield, no hoons past ward and into the curves to Kaikoura and the twisties south of Kaikoura to cheviot . . . that would be very sad!

You could probably still do a picton, queen charlotte drive, havelock, renwick loop though?

[SPman]

My flatmate had a dealer plate. He had 8 cars and jst swapped the plate around as he wanted. He had one car that had never been regoed in NZ - (A Jag XJ40 - ex Singapore). Just stuck on the dealer plate and drove them. I knew him for 8 yeas and he never seemed to have any trouble. Don't know why you can't do the same for bikes.....

[FJRider]

My flatmate had a dealer plate.

I imagine you need to be a licensed motor vehicle dealer to get one. What's the annual fee for that ... ???

[pzkpfw]

What's legal and what's gotten away with are two different things.

[jrandom]

Why not just leave them unregistered [edit: actually, 'unlicenced']? Put them on hold. 'Off the road'. (Make sure they're still WOF'd and looked after, of course.) And just ride them.

If you just ride occasionally for pleasure, you'll be bound to spend far less on the occasional inevitable tickets for your civil disobedience than keeping them both constantly registered would cost you.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Why not just leave them unregistered [edit: actually, 'unlicenced']? Put them on hold. 'Off the road'. (Make sure they're still WOF'd and looked after, of course.) And just ride them.

If you just ride occasionally for pleasure, you'll be bound to spend far less on the occasional inevitable tickets for your civil disobedience than keeping them both constantly registered would cost you.

yeah, you're probably right.

I felt like such a badass riding the scooter round when it had no rego.... then i registered it. silly sheep that I am

[Winston001]

My flatmate had a dealer plate. He had 8 cars and jst swapped the plate around as he wanted. He had one car that had never been regoed in NZ - (A Jag XJ40 - ex Singapore). Just stuck on the dealer plate and drove them. I knew him for 8 yeas and he never seemed to have any trouble. Don't know why you can't do the same for bikes.....

Aaaarrrggghhh...you've just remined me of one of the finest rides on the Ducati (sob). North of Kaikoura dropping off from 170k at moments - astonished glance at the speedo - through 200 only aware of when the bike gathered some air north of Kerenegu....

On song. It was close to a religious experience.

I've nearly died since but you guys know what I mean and nobody can take those moments away.

[FJRider]

Aaaarrrggghhh...you've just remined me of one of the finest rides on the Ducati (sob). North of Kaikoura dropping off from 170k at moments - astonished glance at the speedo - through 200 only aware of when the bike gathered some air north of Kerenegu....

On song. It was close to a religious experience.

I've nearly died since but you guys know what I mean and nobody can take those moments away.

I did the "North of Kaikoura" going south (off the ferry) in the very early hours of the morning once. A 79 GS1000 (in 81) ... full moon and dam near daylight it was so bright.

Deserted road ...

I found religion that night too ...

[red mermaid]

But if he is transporting his brain, and that appears to have been dead for quite some time, does that count?

Neither your car nor your bike is actually a "hearse / non commercial ambulance".