25-09-2010, 10:02pm
O.k. I e-mailed all of the Vicroads accredited engineers, a dozen or so. Five got back to me. Two stated that they did not want to be involved. One said it would be $280.00 for the initial inspection and "go from there". Another wanted to clarify before and after H.p figures then do strength testing of the chassis and all sorts of wonderful stuff. The last guy i dealt with seemed reasonable. Visual inspection. If the overall weight was increased by less than 5% no braking test required and was happy to go off suzuki spec sheets for the "before" weight and a weigh bridge printout for the "after" weight. Approx $500.00 all up. Depending on the bike the biggest hassle could be that everything has to meet A.D.R.s (Undertail, indicators, exhaust decibel reading etc etc)