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    487,144 motorcycle riders ? what are their names ?
    Personally I think there are more than that, why, when I wear my beer goggles I often see eight or even 9 on each bike.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vifferman View Post
    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.
    I stand corrected. Actually just today I personally drove a car and rode a bike, unfortunately my multitasking skills were lacking and I did not do both concurrently.
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    Well, I am astonished at the figures.... glad to see you got a quick response and look forward to an age breakdown

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    Good research mother.

    The 400 large figure represents those that have obtained a licence and kept it current, no?

    Registrations would be a truer indication of the number of vehicles on the road.

    Indexing one against t'other would be interesting too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post
    Good research mother.

    The 400 large figure represents those that have obtained a licence and kept it current, no?

    Registrations would be a truer indication of the number of vehicles on the road.

    Indexing one against t'other would be interesting too.
    I just think the whole thing is interesting. Even looking at statistics on registrations, there seems to be big differences. My first post gives a couple of examples of what is available on line regarding registrations. It is almost like they dont really keep any records properly, and then cobble something together to keep powers that be happy at the end of the year. Mind you I am not so flash on the maths thing so I am probably wrong.

    I will be very interested to see if I can get age demographics, and whether the figures I have been given include disqualified licenses.
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    Would age stats be available... or just year licences were issued...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mom View Post
    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.
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    So, 487,144 motorcycle license holders in New Zealand. I'll be a pickled jelly eel
    How the hell can someone prepare stats based on that data?
    I reckon there would be at least another 20,000 who are not licensed, ride around farms, forests and the like!
    Then another 20,000 that ride up and down roads, drive ways etc learning, again not licensed.
    Then another 200,000 that have a bike licence but have no need for it anymore!

    Or is it a case of - ACC are responsible for 450,000 and trying to get 122,840 to pay for it all!
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    an interesting fact

    45% of all vehicles in Melbourne that commute are bikes

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikeey01 View Post
    How the hell can someone prepare stats based on that data?
    I reckon there would be at least another 20,000 who are not licensed, ride around farms, forests and the like!
    Then another 20,000 that ride up and down roads, drive ways etc learning, again not licensed.
    Then another 200,000 that have a bike licence but have no need for it anymore!

    Or is it a case of - ACC are responsible for 450,000 and trying to get 122,840 to pay for it all!
    I hear you about unlicensed riders, but there is no way to actually count them. The figures I got are for current licesnses, hence the question about disqualified ones. These numbers are the official licenses held. No distinction as to whether they actually ride. Have at look at the registration figures on the links in the first post. That gives a clearer? idea of the number of bikes legally registered to ride on the road in NZ. I very much doubt there is another 200,000 licensed riders on top of the 487+ reported.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mom View Post
    I hear you about unlicensed riders, but there is no way to actually count them. The figures I got are for current licesnses, hence the question about disqualified ones. These numbers are the official licenses held. No distinction as to whether they actually ride. Have at look at the registration figures on the links in the first post. That gives a clearer? idea of the number of bikes legally registered to ride on the road in NZ. I very much doubt there is another 200,000 licensed riders on top of the 487+ reported.
    No I'm not meaning 200,000 on top of, it's more like that many that are licenced but will never need / use the bike licence again...
    I think it's crazy they cover off in their stat "the maybe" and should look at the actual!

    I hear ya though and good on you for doing this, it's something I also find interesting and when reading their last report was concerned at the clever way it was in pointing out figures and percentages, what one needed to realise but missed was the de-creasing numbers.
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    I think a more accurate figure would be how many motorcycle licence holders are there. Thee will be figure for this somewhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mom View Post
    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

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    MOM any word back yet?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mikeey01 View Post
    MOM any word back yet?
    Just checked my email and no reply yet. Mind you they did originally say 4-10 working days, so I guess this next set of questions is actually taking some research. I will let you know when I hear anything.
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    Okay, as one of 450,000 people who hold a valid motorcycle licence (well, 488,000); I'd like to understand why there is so little safety advertising, training, advice care of the government. Further, it would be great to understand why I have so little right on the road (northern motorway would be an example, a bus lane that I get ticketed to use) given the sustainability issues and lack of roading funding - and the fact that despite having one tenth of the footprint of a car, I'm actively discouraged from using a bike.

    Moreover, I'd really like to understand, given that there are 450,000 of us legally allowed to ride, why we seem to have so little voice for safety and roading issues, like the cheesecutters debacle?

    Thanks Mom,

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