Big bike, little license

[Squeak the Rat]

Went straight to a full licence. Ha ha suckers.

Would probly be to paranoid re 3rd party liability.

[Kinje]

Only rode 250 on learners and restricted. Recently got full and thought about upgrading. Test rode some bigger bikes, but decided to keep 250. Can still learn more on it, and figure if I can really learn to ride small bike well, I'll be well placed when I do decide to step up to bigger bike

[Beemer]

Being short, and also having never ridden a bike before, I was happy to stick with the RG150 and in fact I kept it for about four years before upgrading to a BMW F650CS. I think it very much depends on the rider - and it helps if they have had off-road riding experience too. I think it's a bit ridiculous for a large, tall guy to be riding a 250cc as most are pretty little.

[Simon A]

Interesting. I'm on my learners and am considering an upgrade in a few weeks...to an ER6N. I'm still on my learners but I'll probably go ahead with it. Seems that not many people get caught, I am a little concerned about the insurance though.

[Beemer]

Interesting. I'm on my learners and am considering an upgrade in a few weeks...to an ER6N. I'm still on my learners but I'll probably go ahead with it. Seems that not many people get caught, I am a little concerned about the insurance though.

I think that is the main reason people worry about doing it. It could be an expensive lesson if you have an accident and the insurance company refuses to pay out.

[DUCATI*HARD]

i have rode bikes for the last 15years without a license at all,now i have a full

[Simon A]

I think that is the main reason people worry about doing it. It could be an expensive lesson if you have an accident and the insurance company refuses to pay out.

It's not that they won't pay out, more that they won't give me the insurance in the first place!
It's silly really, I could easily have my full by now but I've been lazy. Nevertheless, 1 year without a bike and all this sunny weather has really got me itching to get back on one
edit; Hmmm ,something else I just thought about, if someone hits you and you're riding outside your restrictions would it be tricky to get anything out of them?

[Karma]

I never had a learner or restricted license, straight to a full for me

[Back Fire]

rode a 600 on my restricted for a little while... BUT it was legal, ala exemption

[JimO]

didnt have a restriction when i went in 1975

[Motu]

When I had a learners licence you could ride any size bike you liked....but your rego label was marked learner.So if you rode a bike without a learner rego label you were a bad boy...and I was a bad boy.My brother was older than me,but had less riding experiance....and had a full motorcycle licence,while I was on a learner.I used to ride his bikes....got caught and had to go to court and everything.Serious bad thing to do man.

[Grinner]

Passed my licence first go. Got my first ticket about an hour later, had my first off another hour after that. But I was legal.

[Deviant Esq]

I've never broken the cc limitation of my learner or restricted, only ever ridden my NZ250. Been on a GSXR750 at rather silly velocities... only I was only the pillion seat.

All of the other learner licence conditions except the "must not carry a pillion passenger" I totally disregarded. I never bothered with my L plate until I went for my restricted. I was out after 10pm frequently (and still ignore it on my restricted), and I never bothered with the silly 70km/h learners limit. Bring on the full licence, and I'll get a bigger bike. But not until then. No, down boy!

And no, never been pulled over while on the bike yet.

[Ixion]

When I had a learners licence you could ride any size bike you liked....but your rego label was marked learner.So if you rode a bike without a learner rego label you were a bad boy..,,.

I don't ever remember getting one of them. I remember them being round just don't ever remember getting one for myself. But I'd have thought the traffic cop would have checked it. I know that later I had quite a few bikes that had the L sticker, I never bothered changing it, noone took any notice at all of them

Oddly, I can't remember how cars worked, I don't think they had to have an L sticker ?

[KLOWN]

carryed pillion on learners/restricted
ridden out of hours on learners
ridden over speed on learners
ridden larger cc bikes on learners/restricted[while carrying passengers]
mmmmmm what else, not off top of head.

all of the above + riding while disqualified

got caught riding wile disqualified because of an accident I was involved in, but was on my 150cc at the time