I decide that since gas prices just keep going up and up and up that its wasteful for me to drive my car which is designed for five people to and from work every day with just me in it (even though it is one of the most fuel effecient non-hybrid cars available). So I decide to be somewhat progressive and buy a scooter. WAIIIIIIIIIIIIT though – I need to be a motorcycle driver before I can drive a scooter. And to be a motorcycle driver I need to do amotorcycle test. But to doa motorcycle test I need a registered motorcycle… well I luckily have a friends motorcycle but that isnt’ registered, but to register that motorcycle I need proof of insurance.. but to get proof of insurance I need a license… wait … to get a license I need a registered bike…. see where I am going here.. all this just to drive a fucking 50CC scooter. Seems to me that our govt doesnt want us driving scooters or other personal modes of transport. Now I have to take a 500 dollar course ot learn to drive a 5 speed 500 CC motorcycle just to operate a 50CC scooter that a child can drive. Way to be progressive Nova Scotia… Fuck it, I’m going to just drive a motorcycle instead… I hope that the two day course teaches me everything I need to know before I get on the road on a dirty big motorcycle with absolutely no driving experience.
This article appears in May 1-7, 2008.
I donno where you found this course- but you don’t need a registered motorcycle did mine through saftey nova scotia (maybe the rules have changed ??)…. . good luck…
Don’t forget the brain-bucket…
There’s a cheaper scooter specific course available through NSSC, where you would learn on a 50cc scooter, and get a scooter license. Or you could get your full motorcycle license and be able to ride whatever you want.
Motorcycle license = the regular more expensive class
Hey asshat, you’re driving a motorized vehicle on the streets, why wouldn’t you need a license?
Pete, you might want to start at the top, and read aaaalllll the way to the bottom before you call people names. Otherwise, you tend to end up wearing your own ass as a hat.
The people at Vespa Halifax (in dartmouth, BTW) make all of the arrangements to get new customers their scooter licenses and driving away, all over a weekend apparently. Of course, you’re expected to buy a Vespa in the process, but those are the only cool scooters there are. Call Trevor and get him to help you out.
I did read the whole thing. I stand by my original statement. You take the two day course, you get the license. Can you register a car without a license? Nope. So why would a motorcycle be different. Some places used to have a 50cc minimum for the license, which is why a lot of scooters where 49.5cc engines.Anyway, scooters don’t go too fast, but they go fast enough that they can kill someone if they take a bad dive or hit someone. And it’s not like you can really have a co pilot on a bike like you can for learning to drive a car. So this forces people to either take a course where they are shown how to drive a motorcycle properly, or learn from someone that already owns a bike and knows how. It’s too easy to lose control of a bike and end up in a hospital.
The OP is not disputing the need to be licensed to ride a motorcycle. He/she WANTS to get the license. What he/she is bemoaning is the catch-22 situation that makes it so difficult to get said license.