Originally Posted by ed073
Nup....you take the test for your L-permit, then have to wait at least 3 months to go for your full licence (Ps)....from there, you're restricted to 259cc for 12 months. So the absolute minimum period on a 250 is 15 months.
The 150hp/tonne rule is much better.
Ah sucks. Not that it matters now you've got a bike. But I might as well give you the spiel that I give to all motorbike riding noobs. Better to get a dirtbike and motard it. Much safer and more fun in the city. Has much more cred on the street than your normal learner bike. Plus if you can put your dirt wheels and tires back on and head out into the buh, you'll learn more in a week about bike control than you will in 10 years riding around on the road.
Something like a motarded CRF250X would have been dead cool. But you probably would have got sick of rebuilding the motor. So an XR250 would still have been cool.
But not to worry. You'll learn ok on your ride.
Originally Posted by 531Aussie
I hate to be a wowzer, and I'm
usually reluctanct to state the obvious, but imagine all the bad things that can happen to ya when you're on a pushy, but at 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or even 10 times the speed
lol. From all the crashes I've had on motorbikes in my time, I used to always wonder how one would hurt themselves piddling around on a pushy. Worst I've had was a highside doing 140 at turn 4 at Eastern creek. Did a tendon in my shoulder and cracked my scaphoid, but nothing to dramatic at all.
Originally Posted by 531Aussie
You wouldn't ride in the rain, would ya? I reckon that would change everything, but unlike pushies, a motorbiking mate of mine reckons the tyres actually work in the wet.
Yeah, they work in the wet. Just not that well.
That being said, I used to love riding in the wet in good warm wet weather gear that kept you as dry and warm as in a car. Just a bizzare sensation knowing you have really crappy weather only a few cm away on the other side of your gear. That and controlling a scatey bike was always a fun challenge. I guess it would be less so if I had to ride in the middle of a big city filled with idiots like you guys.