Motorcyle vinning in the Waikato is a friggen joke

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singing1, Feb 24, 12:53am
I can't believe that there are only two people in Waikato who do motorbike vinning. oh one in Cambrigde. WAAHOOO. What a bloody joke. Oh the bloke in Cambridge is on holiday so you can't go there till after March. Come on New Zealand SHARPEN UP ffs. How long will we put up with this crap?
Bugger . and so is my spelling in the heading.
tamarillo, Feb 24, 5:13am
Can you suggest alternative?
Unqualified inexpert people to do it maybe?
noswalg, Feb 24, 5:36am
any motorcycle workshop should have the adequate training to do revinning it is just putting a WOF on the bike, my bike is hopefully going to be going through the process today in Hamilton at the only place available. They look like they do a lot of cars but how knowledgeable they are on motorcycles I don't know, probably not as much as a motorcycle workshop.
kazbanz, Feb 24, 6:57am
noswalg. --Most bike shops don't have the training or the measuring equipment needed to check a bike for straight.
bjmh, Feb 24, 7:50am
It will probably get worse,there must be a lot of W.O.F authority's who look at the cost of compliance,then try and balance that against the reduced return.There would be extra cost involved regards compliance to do motorcycle vinning . its not just training ,its paying NZTA there pound of flesh.
noswalg, Feb 24, 8:03am
for a straight revin I don't think the compliance agent measures it either, if it's flagged as accident damaged then it gets measured by a repair certifier (there is only one of them in the Waikato too)
noswalg, Feb 24, 11:05am
Just dropped my bike off at VTAC in Hamilton, 2-3 days he reckons
richynuts, Feb 24, 7:23pm
No measuring in the revinning process, if your talking about a repair cert, an engineer came out o my work to do a mates bike, guess what his so could measuring device was? A penlight and a piece of string he tied it to back wheel then lined it up with the front did not even have a measuring tape to check both sides of bike or the wheelbase, $200 for that nonsense.
singing1, Feb 24, 10:27pm
It's a friggen joke. I can measure my own brake thickness too as on the form it say a competent person must sign the form. Its True.
noswalg, Feb 24, 10:38pm
I have the form but got the repair certifier to do my brake dec as I wasn't sure about measuring the disc runout, cost me $50. Has your bike been deregistered by an insurance co. or just lapsed rego?
singing1, Feb 24, 11:15pm
Just lapsed rego back in 89. I just cannot believe that there is only two blokes in the Waikato, it's just nuts. Its a glorified WOF for crying out loud. Anyone with common sense and half a brain could do the job but NO everybody is trying to cover there arse in case there is a lawsuit. Is it easier to just buy a regoed bike of the same make and put those plates on my bike?
Its 2015 N.Z. wake up and stop this silly carry on.
singing1, Feb 24, 11:15pm
Can you tell I'm annoyed?
whqqsh, Feb 25, 1:21am
OP thinks he's got it tough, try getting an LVVTA cert in Aucks (a city with 1.5 million people). I reckon certain authorities are slowly pushing out any form of transport that isn't a 'Joe Bloggs boring assed factory box' by making it harder &/or more expensive to put them or keep them on the road
kecal, Feb 25, 4:53am
its called tax. the government have got to reel in their dollars from someone.
if your out too have fun your gunna have to pay.
my son recently went through this to get a car re vinned , an absolute joke, and money grabbing exercise.
franc123, Feb 25, 7:12am
Its been the agenda to get old equipment off the road for a long time now, first the derego'ing and revin BS, and now reduced license fees for these late model safe cars and of course the ongoing punishment of 6 month WOFs on those pampered old treasures that might have done a hundred miles or ks or even less since the last check. Issues of course the beloved politicians never have to deal with.
singing1, Feb 25, 3:04pm
Why do we put up with it?. clik clik bang.
noswalg, Feb 27, 6:20pm
Ok, so go in to VTAC Hamilton today to see whats happening with the bike (dropped it in on tuesday, got told 2-3 days). No not done yet, turns out they don't even have anyone that can do compliance on bikes and have to get a guy to come from VINZ ( the irony here is that VINZ is the place I intially went to but they don't do complince on bikes so they sent me to VTAC) This guy can't make it until Monday and at last count had a backlog of 7 bikes waiting at VTAC to be complied, only 1 other when I dropped mine off so will be ringing on monday morning to make sure its at the top of the list, F#@k'n joke of a system alright
gunhand, Feb 27, 6:45pm
Assuming it's old old your pampered old treasure will be even cheaper to license. If they really wanted to get rid of them don't you think they would hike the price to huge levels because they are sooo unsafe?
franc123, Feb 27, 7:11pm
Not by much, from what info I've seen vintage licensing is coming down by about $16 p/a. There is not huge money to be made out of it anyway. They are still going to wallop those cars in the 25-40yo bracket with full fees, even though many cars in this category may or may not get similar amount of use to the over 40's (and therefore have similar risk exposure) and are for the most part safer vehicles than the over 40's.
singing1, Feb 28, 10:37am
The only guy in Hamilton is a bloke in VTNZ Lincoln st,
drive past and you can see he has a big backlog of bikes parked in the middle lane in the workshop. Like you say the crazy stuff is that the other places all say they can do the job but everyone is using the same man. Oh I got told I could take mine to a man in Avondale. What? It's a bloody hour and a half drive
singing1, Feb 28, 11:07am
Oh I got told I could take mine to a man in Avondale. What? It's a bloody hour and a half drive[/quote]
And he is one of only a couple of blokes in Auckland so guess how busy he is?
whqqsh, Feb 28, 1:20pm
last time I took a bike for a WOF (not that many years ago) an old guy at a VTNZ/Council/whatever station told me to check the brakes by riding towards him as fast as I can & hit the brake when I pass a certain mark. I asked 'combined brake, fronts only, what are you testing?' he sounded stunned 'Hell no, don't use the fronts you'll go over the handlebars, back brakes only please'. Guy obviously done his apprenticeship on girder fork pre-war stuff. Even in the short distance I had I got up a good speed, back brake on at his mark with smooth concrete & nearly ran him into the pit with me not far off either. Still a bit shaken he said I wouldn't pass because I had no headlight, while staring closely at the front of the bike then nearly crapped himself when I popped the headlight up on the Katana.
sandypheet, Feb 28, 1:33pm
Once upon a time I must have been the only one doing them in the BOP. Easy job if all paper work etc in order.
singing1, Mar 2, 9:34pm
Mate, come to the Waikato there is heaps of work here.
plasticboys, Mar 3, 6:09am
the one my mate went to used a tape measure