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  1. nice_sherwood

    nice_sherwood DI Senior Member

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    But it will help :-P. i have now an australia full car license it took me 3 years to get it, had to do learners plates for a year under supervision and 2 years as a provisional license holder but in between those times you have to take a test in order to get a full license which isnt that easy as you may think :-),, i really think driving is about looking ahead, keeping distance and knowing ahead what the other possible things the other drivers will do if you can do that here then itll be easy if yoy cant, stick with the public transport :-)
     
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    brian ausie DI Forum Patron

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    yup it's called defensive driving, thats what keeps me alive here
     
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    Ya think? :rolleyes:
     
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    nice_sherwood DI Senior Member

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    Yes, why? Do you have a problem with that?
     
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    No i just picked up my bike at the dealer.. they wont give you a temp registration but say to carry your purchase papers with you incase you get stopped. They also make you sign a waiver that they are not responsible for any tickets you incur while awaiting rego papers.

    As for driving, do you guys not know what the horn is for? The locals are pretty d*mn good at hearing/responding to it..whenever I overtake a vehicle a one or 2 taps of the horn has avoided SEVERAL mishaps/potential accidents.. Its quite neat because in the U.S. the horn was only used as an insult or a way to curse someone you were pissed off at.
     
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    No problem. What sucks about the Internet is tone is lost. I was just agreeing with your assessment of how you thought a person should drive. (defensive driving)
     
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    You can get a temporary plate at the LTO but it's only good for 2 weeks or so then you have to go pay for another. I've never done it as prior to the analness the police have adopted the past year about registrations the "for registration" plate was good.

    Completely agree about the horn. My horn broke on my little Honda and I was extremely uncomfortable driving. For better results buy a horn that sounds like a bus horn. The more the horn sounds like you are driving a bigger vehicle the more they pay attention.

    I recently took a bus on a test drive to Bacolod and I was amazed at how the locals pay much more attention to a bus horn than a Honda Wave horn.
     
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    This is good news. I think - what I mean is; are LTO and cops notified/informed that it's acceptable for new bikes? Or even dealerships?
    I'm shopping for a bike now, and was told by folks at two dealers (yamaha and rusi) that I could run into trouble outside of Dumaguete city limits.
     
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    We had occasion to visit the impound lot in Cebu last year, where there were numerous brand new motorcycles with weeds growing up through them, and "for registration" plates.

    LTO fails to issue plates, and due to this will confiscate a vehicle without plates on a whim. You are at the mercy of the officer in charge.

    Larry
     
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    Is it possible that those impounded new bikes are from owners who did not bother to renew the temp registrations while waiting for the real plates?
     
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