Kawasaki Sportsbike Riders Club - Australia - Online Forum

zxsixr03 wrote:By a track bike or by a supermotard on the rd if u want some fun...

I said it first!

ryotalsax wrote:Thanks for the words of wisdom guys. It was just an idea I had in my head, it's clearly not worth it... I'll look it to the suggestions of the lams approved 600's thanks.
that R6 which is on bike sales site has been restricted but it's illegal to do so yourself, it has to be a manufacture restricted bike like the lams approved 600's. Anyway like I said only a thought and a silly one at that Track bike and trailer sounds like it will tame the beasts inside, I'll look into that too.

Thanks heaps people. Talked me out of it completely! Love your work

As to that R6, there was a company that worked with getting new bikes form manufacturers, putting restriction kits in them (these are legal all throughout the UK/europe) and then selling them to learners. They are the full bike, but just have a limit in how far the throttle will open. Initially the RTA went for it, then backpeddled on the idea, costing the guy tens of thousands of dollars as his admittedly great idea had to be shitcanned.

As to the bikes themselves, the owner was given an exception letter that had the following gist to it. The bike was bought by you during a brief time when it was legal for a learner to ride one of these bikes. Due to this the bike is legally registered as a LAMs bike under the following conditions 1) the LAMS compliance stays with your ownership of the bike and the current registration. If you sell the bike, the LAMS compliance does not follow the bike upon transfer of ownership, if the bike becomes unregistered for whatever reason (and the bike remains unregistered for 3 months/the rego was handed in) then the LAMS compliance will not be renewed once it is reregistered.

So you buy it, it will no longer be lams legal. I would recommend you ask to see the exception letter if you are serious about getting this bike.

n.b. i may be wrong, but i remember reading about these bikes elsewhere a little while ago.

I think Wayne posted something to this effect a while ago

Glad to hear, i knew i read it somewhere. but effed if i remember if it was this forum or not.

Yeah GPZ_Jim and I went through this recently with the RTA. Our bikes had been taken off the LAMS list after being on since 2002. Apparently our 23yo bikes are over the power to weight limitations and thats why they are no longer on the LAMS list. As we'd purchased the bikes while they were on the LAMS list we were issued with letters we must carry from the RTA along with Conditional LAMS rego stickers. If we sell the bikes the Cond. Lams status will be removed. I intend to leave mine rego'd in my name to let Tyler use it to learn on.

Thusly i figured whoever owned these "lams" 600 I4's would have a similar situation. The funny thing is though, i did see discussion about a gsxr600 that had this restriction in place and it being for sale too a while ago. So maybe i was confusing both of these seperate incidents.