Got an informal caution today. (16yo) (Tas, Australia)

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Purrs

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Nov 10, 2011
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Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Went for a ride, a good 30km, and I was almost home too, when suddenly:

A motorcycle cop appeared, going the other way.
I pulled over before he even finished turning around.

I told him it was under 50cc, (lie)

He told me that not only was it over 50cc, but that it didn't matter,
as the legal limit is 200W
He said that he had researched it himself.

I gave him my details.

He said that i could ride it so long as i didn't use the motor.

Words were said, etc.


He rode off, and so did I.



(this was all about an hour ago.)

My previous understanding was that cops didn't care. so long as you were not doing stupid things. I was wrong.
 
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soup325

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Dec 11, 2010
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my suggestion is that to attach a plate to the motor with some serial numbers on it, like they do with rocksolid 200watt kits.

make it look professional, and do up a nice graph on a spreadsheet that looks like a dyno graph.

and remember that a 200w motor will not go much on 50kph by itself so ghost pedal, to make it look authentic.