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pillion passenger on am license

  • 23-05-2019 11:32pm
    #1
    barroda
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭


    Hi I'm in my 50's considering getting a scooter for getting around town. Have full a car license over 30 yrs years with am on it. question is insurance wont cover for a pillion passenger? how can I get this if i already have a license to drive moped. Thanks for any advice


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  • #2
    ayux4rj6zql2ph
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭ayux4rj6zql2ph


    barroda wrote: »
    Hi I'm in my 50's considering getting a scooter for getting around town. Have full a car license over 30 yrs years with am on it. question is insurance wont cover for a pillion passenger? how can I get this if i already have a license to drive moped. Thanks for any advice

    I’ve a moped and I’m covered to carry a pillion, depends on the insurer I guess


  • #3
    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,871 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Pillion cover is an extra on most policies.

    A legal moped struggles with one person, 2 would be a nightmare.


  • #4
    Markcheese
    Registered Users Posts: 8,428 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    Good point, do you mean a 50cc scooter? Or something a bit bigger.. (which I assume needs a bike licence...)

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • #5
    barroda
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭barroda


    Just a scooter, had big bikes years ago never got a full license. Thats why a scooter appealed as no need to do the rigamorole of the full bike test .


  • #6
    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,871 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    barroda wrote: »
    Just a scooter, had big bikes years ago never got a full license. Thats why a scooter appealed as no need to do the rigamorole of the full bike test .

    There's a lot of hassle to have a vehicle that can only do 45km/h, insurance/tax/helmet, when you could have a pedelec which can do 25km/h with no other expenses bar fuel.


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  • #7
    splinter65
    Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    What kind of license do you need for a 50cc?


  • #8
    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,871 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    splinter65 wrote: »
    What kind of license do you need for a 50cc?

    Depends how fast it goes.

    <45km/h M licence
    > 45km/h A1 licence


  • #9
    ayux4rj6zql2ph
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭ayux4rj6zql2ph


    Just to clarify something for the sake of it, i had an X8R 50cc moped one time when i was, well lets just say an extremely thin boy, and i regularly carried people of equal build on it, it got the job done perfectly, fast forward several years later, i'm not so the once slim boy i used to be, i have what is effectively a Yamaha Aerox 50cc moped, if i have to stop half way up a hill and take off again it isn't easy to do it.


  • #10
    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,609 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Arielle Famous Technology wrote: »
    Just to clarify something for the sake of it, i had an X8R 50cc moped one time when i was, well lets just say an extremely thin boy, and i regularly carried people of equal build on it, it got the job done perfectly, fast forward several years later, i'm not so the once slim boy i used to be, i have what is effectively a Yamaha Aerox 50cc moped, if i have to stop half way up a hill and take off again it isn't easy to do it.


    Take up jogging ?

    :P


  • #11
    ayux4rj6zql2ph
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭ayux4rj6zql2ph


    listermint wrote: »
    Take up jogging ?

    :P

    A moped would get up the hill faster than me jogging :pac:


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