Too old to ride the bike?

**Elysium** · 9th January 2009, 09:03

For bikers when they get too old to ride their beloved bikes.

Sorry if a repost.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-184900658.htm

**Ixion** · 9th January 2009, 09:46

I thought I'd just acquired a walking disability. Then I saw the price.

**Hitcher** · 9th January 2009, 10:12

It's a fucking motor vehicle. How on earth can it get dispensation to use footpaths and walkways? Have our regulators gone barking mad?

**Cajun** · 9th January 2009, 10:15

someone really taking the piss arn't they

that some a 150cc 4 wheel bike, with a bucket seat and some high rise bars on it

**vifferman** · 9th January 2009, 10:27

Originally Posted by Hitcher

It's a fucking motor vehicle. How on earth can it get dispensation to use footpaths and walkways? Have our regulators gone barking mad?

Yes. Woof woof.

Arf arf.

There's no regulations to cover gopeds, those horrible Segways, and other non-roadworthy motorised vehicles.
But perhaps that's as it should be...

**slofox** · 9th January 2009, 10:27

Hmmmmm...I might trade up to one of them...

**Naki Rat** · 9th January 2009, 10:29

Think I feel a relapse of my dodgey knee coming on. Wonder if my ACC case manager will see thinks my way... ? I want one

**Ixion** · 9th January 2009, 10:31

I think the bit about being allowed to use it on DoC tracks and such like (assuming the user is genuinely disabled) is correct. The bit about using it on footpaths is wrong.

**laserracer** · 9th January 2009, 10:32

thats one expensive 150cc quad.. damn for $16000 i would want somthing faster than 50 kph
..now if it was 150kph thats more like it

**Hitcher** · 9th January 2009, 10:35

I don't see why the ability, or lack of, of the user of a vehicle has any materiality on where it should be allowed to go. With the exception of parking spaces.

**Roki_nz** · 9th January 2009, 10:42

Thats what i'm getting when i grow old

**Hitcher** · 9th January 2009, 10:58

This whole thing smells like a rort, designed to be funded by gullible NZ taxpayers via ACC or WINZ.

**fliplid** · 9th January 2009, 11:14

Available with tracks on it for all of those awkward to get to places off road?

**Ixion** · 9th January 2009, 11:16

Originally Posted by Hitcher

I don't see why the ability, or lack of, of the user of a vehicle has any materiality on where it should be allowed to go. With the exception of parking spaces.

Most areas administered by DoC have roads and walking 'tracks' (often quite wide and easily navigable by a bike. But motor vehicles (and often horses and bicycles too) are always strictly forbidden. Except, for a dispensation for the 'disabled'. Which varies as to what is dispensed it was intended to allow powered wheel chairs (the sort of thing Mr Grahameeboy's daughter has).And, of course, you have to be genuinely disabled, as in unable to walk.

So , stretching a very long bow, a genuinely disabled person *could* claim that this thing was a mobility aid for a disabled person and please unlock the gate. Dunno how often you'd get away with it though.