Two up stories, please

Cnut, your old mob flogged em to me.

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My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going)
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament)
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I'm not sure what the "right" answer is on licensing laws, though
clearly they should be much, much more restrictive from a driving
skills standpoint IMHO. Unfortunately, in SoCal at least, public
transit is a joke and thus you almost *need* a motor vehicle to get
anywhere. Any attempts to make it tougher to get a license would
probably result in the lynching of politicians. Which is not
necessarily a bad thing in and of itself.

The strange thing is that when you have a learner's permit for a
motorcycle you cannot carry passengers, ride at night nor ride on the
freeway. Given that the freeway is statistically much safer than
surface streets that last one doesn't make any sense at all. Or
wouldn't if you weren't aware that some bonehead bureaucrat who knows
nothing about motorcycles nor statistics drew up the laws.

Bob
Rancho Cucamonga, CA

And if I could get a 150mph endorsement for my license, so much the
better....

 

I think it's more of a "stop them getting killed" thing.

Ahh yes, anyone displaying L-Plates (Learner Plates) cannot drive on a
motorway or carry passengers. I'm not sure why one isn't permitted to
ride at night in your cun'ree though.

 

Dan L says...

I wasn't there at the time.

 

Serpently was. I'm not even convinced that the tester was on the same
block he'd asked me to ride round, except for doing the emergency
stop.

Oh it's a _lot_ more difficult. I had to do a retest a few years ago
and, to my eternal shame, failed the fucker first time out[1]. There's
loads more technical stuff, and the fact that the tester is following
behind means that you don't get away with half of what you could back
in t'old days.

On the downside, the training is very clearly focussed on passing the
test, and the latter is more concerned with technicalities like the
U-turn than it is with overall ability. But it's true to say that the
standard of a newly passsed rider has to be much higher than it used
to.

[1] on the U-turn. Just a dab of foot when I saw something out of the
corner of my eye, but enough.

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

I tried that once. Too fast for me.