I’m still pitting Ahnold here because there are reports that Arnold “rides regularly with friends along the California coast”. What example are you giving? That driving illegally is OK as long as you are an American? Tough luck for illegals that are at least trying to get driver’s licenses eh? But then again you vetoed that in 2005 so illegals are driven even more underground. :wally
This case got me to wonder: While it is true that most scenes of him in the bike in the Terminator movies were done by stunt men, he does appear on film riding in a couple of scenes… without a side car.
Can he be cited for that? Of course that will go only for the T3 movie. AFAIK with the statute of limitations, Arnold is OK for riding a bike in T1 and T2.
Well, “ignorance of the law” and all that, but how many states require a separate license or a an additional certificate on a standard operator license to ride a motorcylce. I would not have even thought that it was required in most states. I knew of cases (many years ago) where states issued motorcycle licenses to kids too young to drive cars, but at that time it seemed that once a car license was obtained, a driver was good for anything that did not require a commercial license.
Before coming to work this morning (Korea time), I was listening to KGO radio’s webcast. Pete Wilson was talking about the incident. So, I looked at the DMV website and noticed that a motorcycle is a two-wheeled vehicle. Supposedly, the cycle the Governor was riding had a sidecar attached and thus was a three-wheeled vehicle (at least according to Pete’s show).
Damn near all of them. I don’t have the cite handy, but I’m guessing it would be real easy to find on the American Motorcyclist Association website. I don’t know how to do links, so I’ll just type it.
Good point, I wonder now if he can say that every time he biked around, the roads were closed for him.
Checking the updates, the police is saying Ahnold did drive illegally; The DMV says it was ok. It seems that they have their own terminology on what is a bike. Everything now hinges what the Los Angeles city attorney decides.
If I get correctly what the police is saying, then the bike-sidecar Arnold was driving had only 3 wheels. They say that a bike with a sidecar is ok for class C only if it has 4 wheels. (left and right of the sidecar)
So far the bits of news from the day say only that he “took a spill from his motorcycle” after hitting a car (no reference to a sidecar). The question here is why his lack of a license was not caught then.
The question here is why the women in the Kennedy family allow the men (blood relatives and in-laws) to operate motor vehicles. No good ever comes from a one of them operating a car, motorcycle or airplane.
Good heavens! To think I could have gone through my whole life without knowing Schwarzenegger didn’t have a Californian licence for a sidecar! Thank God for the SDMB! And I bet I wasn’t the only one who was sadly ignorant of that fact. Good job fighting ignorance there GIGObuster.
From what I see, the Governator was driving perfectly legally, with the correct license. You only need a “class C” to drive a motorcycle when it has a sidecar, which his had. Thus, while it is true that Arnold didin’t have a motorcycle license (and he says he’ll get one) he didn’t need one. That’s why he wasn’t cited. There are legal questions about what defines a “sidecar”, but really, dudes- those are quibbles- and quibbles that are only being raised as it was the Governor who was involved.
