Motorbike License - Brisbane

[Guest mtmoore]

When I leave school in the UK (next year) I plan to leave and go to study law in Australia. I'd like a motorbike just to get me to and from uni. I have checked the Queensland transport website but I get confused with all the R, RE, open, R1 license things.

 

Can anyone give me information or give me a website that will tell me the information simply?

 

Also I will be 16/17 when I leave to study in Australia and will it help if I have a UK provisional or full license for a car or motorbike?

 

Thanks in advance,

Michael

[Eera]

You're going to be too young to have a motorbike in Queensland. You have to be over 18 and to have held a full car licence for at least a year.

 

Bear in mind too, here you cannot ride a motorbike unsupervised on a learner's licence like you can in the UK. The best you can do is a 50cc scooter which you can ride on a full car licence.

 

But for completeness, you do an RE (restricted) licence first, which lets you get a bike up to 250cc, then the R (unrestricted) licence after a year which is any size bike. They're bringing in some additional rules in July like restricting the models you can ride, so you'll not be able to ride a 2-stroke 250 on an RE licence as they're simply too powerful, plus they're thinking about bringing in P-plates for bikes, which don't exist at the moment.

 

Google Queensland Transport and look up the licencing bit, it'll tell you what you need to know.

[Guest cam7445]

If you can get your full UK licences, as they transfer them straight across in the sunshine state. You will have to wait until 18 to ride a motorbike though. As a student depending on distances a decent push bike is ok for up to 20km each way or public transport.