Scooter License Process Now Shorter in NSW

16-September-2008

Actress Anne Hathaway loves scooters too!

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Want to get a scooter licence but are put off by the training time?

Good news for NSW-ites is that the NSW Road Transport Authority (RTA) has just changed the rules so that riders of scooters less than 160cc won't have to do the 6-hour, pre-provisional course before doing the Motorcycle Operator Skills Test or MOST (1 hour) anymore.

However, riders will still need to pass the pre-learner course (7 hours held over 2 days).

"With the increasing popularity of automatic, 'twist and go' scooters, and in particular 125/150cc capacity scooters in NSW, this is a positive change exempting riders of small scooters from the pre-provisional course, which is heavily biased to helping riders of manual motorcycles master clutch control and gear changes," says Paul Nobbs from the Australia Scooter Federation.

Read details of the new rules here!

Picture: from Parade Magazine.