Probably the fine print - not that it is actually printed. Our transport website can be quite ambiguous when you want a specific answer. If I'd got my licence a few months earlier we wouldn't be having this conversation. Last year they changed some of the rules, which meant that you could no longer get your Ls one day and Ps the next, you had to have your Ls for 6 months - but most of us were still of the belief that after that we could get an exemption, which is true - we just weren't aware that they were already using the lams list. It was only on Tuesday, when I spoke to the woman who does the exemptions, I learned that it isn't an exemption in the old sense. We just get a couple of months headstart on those who will come under the new scheme mid year. I am certainly not alone. There are some Harley riders who rode for years without bothering to get a licence and now their clubs have told them they better get one, so they can't ride their own bikes.I-K wrote:Trying to get an exemption for an 80rwhp 600cc inline four did have a ring of doomed optimism about it... unless that's how they *did* do it in Tasmania, and now, with the approach of LAMS, it's changed.
Could you elaborate on this? What had you thinking it would be worth going for an exemption? Was it always an option in Tas, or did they announce the exemption options recently and you just caught out not having read the fine print?
If they had changed all the rules at the same time instead of testing the water first, there would have been a lot less confusion. When all of us 'older' ones have been through the system and everybody coming in starts on the same rules it will probably work fine. At least until they change it again.
Yes, your second statement confirms the first. Just because something is The Law, doesn't necessarily mean it's good, right and we shouldn't disagree with it. That way leads to a big brother state and an RFID chip in your head. I was 22 before you were born, and it's probably my own fault that I wasn't financially able to have a registered bike to get my licence on well before that. When I was young rego was a luxury item that ate into your petrol money and getting a licence was something you could always do 'tomorrow'.kellz wrote:im 22.
and sorry but the law is the law.
Of course, the other thing that is upsetting is the fact that the head mechanic is legally able to ride that bike, despite having less experience than me. Just because he's had an unused bike licence in his pocket for the last 30 years. He's lucky he doesn't have to go through the L course, because he wouldn't pass. But thats no matter. He's legal, and the law is the law, although if we happen to ride past Wooloongong maybe he'd better not ride near you either?
Looking at those photos of you spraying bits of your GPX pink, there's no way I, for one, would've picked you for being in your mid-40's...
In my defence I would point out that the last time was before kellz was born. 
Something else I'm not happy about. So I tell everyone I'm 36. My four sisters are rightly pissed about that. They're all younger than me and none of them could pass for 36. 
