Is there an age limit?

[johnnydolittle]

I took my daughter for a ride from Tallangatta to Albury the other day.

After much heated discussion it was agreed that she would not wear her fairy wings - she is five years old.

40 Kilometres each way, not bad for a first real real ride.

(We've been up and down the back lane and around the streets of Tallangatta in our Princess dress before - not me, her!)

On the way back it felt a little worrying as she insisted on not hanging on, because it was more fun to flap her wings and pretend to fly

anyway, it kinda got me thinking, is there a minimum age to be a pillion ?

This is a piece from Road Rules Victoria, which is pretty much word for word with the Australian Road Rules Rules 271 (2) and some other states but not NSW any more.

A passenger on a motorbike (except a passenger in a sidecar
or on a seat, other than a pillion seat, designed for a
passenger) that is moving, or is stationary but not parked,
must—
(a) sit astride the pillion seat facing forwards; and
(b) keep both feet on the footrests designed for use by a
pillion passenger on the motorbike.

The whole idea of the ARR was to have a unified set of rules for the whole country. Unfortunately some states have changed them to suit their own agendas which defeats the purpose of why they were brought in.