One motorbike ride leads to six traffic offences

A 24-YEAR-OLD man caught riding an unregistered, uninsured motorbike had no helmet and was unlicensed at the time and there was more.

GENERIC PIC: His motorcycle was uninsured and unregistered and that was just the start.

MOTORCYCLST Tyler Lionel John Kelly just about hit the jackpot of things to do wrongly when he jumped onto his motorcycle to go for a ride last month.

A police patrol pulled over the 24-year-old as he rode his 125cc motorbike on the Toowoomba Connection Road at Withcott about 2pm, September 4.

Not only was he not wearing a helmet, the motorcycle he was riding was unregistered and uninsured and Kelly was unlicensed and had been drinking the Withcott Hotel, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard.

He blew a breath/alcohol reading of 0.05 and checks of the bike found it was defective in that it had no indicating lights.

Police prosecutor Sergeant Natalie Bugden told the court the 24-year-old's licence had been suspended from July 8 to October 7.

The self-represented Kelly pleaded guilty to driving without a licence repeat offender, having a safe but otherwise defective vehicle, driving an unregistered, uninsured vehicle, failing to wear a helmet and drink-driving.

Kelly told the court he was about to leave for Rockhampton for work.

Magistrate Graham Lee fined him a total $1300 and disqualified him from holding or obtaining a driver's licence for six months.

Originally published as One motorbike ride leads to six traffic offences