Kawasaki Sportsbike Riders Club - Australia - Online Forum

tim wrote: I just went through my Ls and Ps and no one would reasonably know anymore than what I've learnt over the last few months, so I can't imagine it's fair or reasonable to get charged for it.

No such thing as "fair & reasonable" in the eyes of the law.......... ignorance of the law is NOT an excuse

Helmet approved under Aus standards and underwear to abibe by common decency laws.

If the law were to force you to wear any other clothing it would have to have an Australian standard - and non exists for any 'protective" motorcycle clothing other than helmets WORLDWIDE.

PLEASE NOTE - in some cases common decency may require more than just underwear

doesn't explain all the showoffs on their R1's and gixxer thou's wearing wifebeaters, boardies and thongs and the obligatory helmet in summer.

I was aware that it was simply just a helmet. I am forever seeing Bro's in t-shirts and thongs up here!

You must wear a minimum sandshoes, sunnies, and budgie smugglers!

Oh and i call BS. Helmets the only thing stipulated by law, aren't they. otherwise all bike gear would have to be rated to meet an australians standard that would enure our safety on the road and then would probably cost us more money. maybe even another charge added to our regos to cover the differance to bring this new saftey incentive in???

or they could just make it that it has to be CE approved, which is already done for heaps of gear out there, and there wouldnt need to be any price increase.

just like helmets, australia wouldnt introduce a standard, they would use another countries instead

Take it from someone in the job, you can't book a bike rider for wearing shorts. The ONLY requirement is a helmet that complies with the australian safety standards and is displaying the sticker. It is an offence to remove the sticker. I have no idea what offence they would have written on the ticket, I only hope the guy didn't pay it and contested it at court.

As a side note it should be mentioned that you don't actually have to know you are committing a traffic offence to be infringed. Traffic offences carry whats known as 'strict liability' which differs from criminal offences.