Went down to re rego my bike as solo reg to enquire as to process. The nice helpful man at the transport and main roads dep,in Brisbane told me that i had to weld up rear footpeg threads on frame.I said real politely, can i place a nice chrome bolt in the thread, No, he said, thats illegal. I then said but what if i want to go back to dual rego at a later time. The nice man said, the law is the law and he could not make exception. Then i said that i wanted to purchase a left side tear drop toolbox that uses the peg thread as the lower mounting point of the toolbox at a later date, The nice man then said, i could put a bolt in the thread, get solo reg and put toolbox on at later date at my discretion. Waited in queue for two hours to have this stupid conversation with the nice man.
My point is that i could ride out of rego office and do all sorts mods on my bike, if im pulled over, then thats the risk we take, No different that going over the speed limit.
Perhaps its time that laws were passed banning stupid people from being employed in responsible jobs.
Would love to see IQ results of tests for these stupid public self servers.
i suppose you can always bog up the hole with a little bit of putty or something , smooth it over and touch up with black paint . easy to reverse.
not to mention the four holes they drill into your bike for the mod plate
its only $400 to rego a bike here anyway ya tight arse lol
Wouldn't welding the Footpeg mounting points be a modification to the frame, therefore requiring an Engineers report?
I was told the same thing back in '95 when I asked about solo rego for my 600 Ducati Pantah.
"Weld up the bolt holes or grind them off" they said. Seems no-one (including me) has bothered to challenge that dumb-arse rule since then...
Whats the diff in price between solo and pillion reg? Didnt know it existed!
I think to qualify for that type of job u have to have a beauracratic brain i.e stupid, unreasonable and inflexible.
Thanks for your input, Thats what this site is all about,
Have you got a solo modification plate on your bike? If you do then there is no argument. Well worth the $100 or so if you have a few bikes and want to rego them for half price. (its a Qld thing)
You can get bikes complienced without all the technical bullshit thats been thrown at you. There used to be rego in Victoria for solo or sidecar.
We modify them to get half price rego.