Thread: Motorbike rego

Move to Queensland...my renewal just came in - $385 for the year, 2 seat rego

$850 is steep. I'd call them up to confirm this.

Did that include stamp duty, transfer fee, plates and rego? Did you previously have the bike registered in your name? If so you shouldnt have toi pay stampduty and transfer fees again.
Stamp duty is $40 per $1000 value or $8 per $200 or part there of.
Then you would have number plates, third party insurance and registration.

It would probably add up to around that for a first up rego.

The bike i just bought (rego paid) cost the previous owner $500 because of the postcode he was in.

Motor bike rego is a rip off. Cost of wear & tear to the roads is proportional (roughly) to the 5th power of the mass of the vehicle. So if a motor bike + pax weighs a quarter of the car + pax, the wear & tear it causes is 1/256 of the car.

The same rip off applied with 3rd party insurance. Sure motor bikes have more accidents per km, but usually only the rider is injured, and most do many fewer kms than cars. The insurance companies will not publish their actuarial tables to support their thievery, and AFIK, no government has had the guts to compel them to.

Originally Posted by AlexS

Motor bike rego is a rip off. Cost of wear & tear to the roads is proportional (roughly) to the 5th power of the mass of the vehicle. So if a motor bike + pax weighs a quarter of the car + pax, the wear & tear it causes is 1/256 of the car.

The same rip off applied with 3rd party insurance. Sure motor bikes have more accidents per km, but usually only the rider is injured, and most do many fewer kms than cars. The insurance companies will not publish their actuarial tables to support their thievery, and AFIK, no government has had the guts to compel them to.

you've got it wrong

the costs are driven by the Goverment who want to price bikes off the road.
the road safety experts I know all say "if bikes were invented today, we would not allow them on the roads 'cause their too dangerous"

The bike was registered in my dads name about 6-7 years ago, which is when he died (not from the bike). I guess my mum became the owner but didnt re register it. It had personalised plates so she paid extra to keep them. So now i want to restister in my name using the personalised plates. I tried twice yesterday to ring vicroads but after about 10 min on hold i gave up.

Originally Posted by mako

The bike was registered in my dads name about 6-7 years ago, which is when he died (not from the bike). I guess my mum became the owner but didnt re register it. It had personalised plates so she paid extra to keep them. So now i want to restister in my name using the personalised plates.

there's your problem. The personalised plates. Are far as VicRoads is concerned it's "come in spinner"

Originally Posted by mako

The bike was registered in my dads name about 6-7 years ago, which is when he died (not from the bike). I guess my mum became the owner but didnt re register it. It had personalised plates so she paid extra to keep them. So now i want to restister in my name using the personalised plates. I tried twice yesterday to ring vicroads but after about 10 min on hold i gave up.

Even if the bike was registered in your Dads name, I am pretty sure you still have to pay Stamp Duty and Transfer fee to register it in your name because you're transferring ownership and there is no way around this, I have tried to to do something similar when changing the name on my old ute, I closed my company down and needed to put the ute in my name as it was in the Company name and even thought I was the Director and owner of said company, I still had to pay stamp duty and transfer fees.

And yeah, you'll need to supply a roadworthy certificate as well.

Originally Posted by ian

there's your problem. The personalised plates. Are far as VicRoads is concerned it's "come in spinner"

That shouldn't have any bearing on it Ian, as mako says, his Mum has paid to keep them so I wouldn't think that you have to pay for them again.

Originally Posted by ian

you've got it wrong

the costs are driven by the Goverment who want to price bikes off the road.
the road safety experts I know all say "if bikes were invented today, we would not allow them on the roads 'cause their too dangerous"

I think we both have it right, Ian