Show HN: Learner Approved Motorbikes

Great idea and a cause close to my heart (I ride a Kawasaki Versys 650 - <a href="http://www.learnerapproved.com/bikes/584" rel="nofollow">http://www.learnerapproved.com/bikes/584</a>).<p>My only gripe was that it's not clear what country this is for, and of course every country has different learner legal laws. I was only able to conclude it was Australia after reading about the founders.<p>I'd love to see this expanded to other countries, especially for EU countries with the new 4 tier motorcycle licensing (so glad I passed before they brought that in)

As a bit of background, in most states of Australia you can only ride restricted motorbikes (commonly referred to as LAMS bikes) when on your learner or provisional license. As motorcycle riders, we wanted to help people find out what bikes were out there.<p>We plan on growing the site into a place where all riders can discuss the pros and cons of each Learner Approved motorbike.<p>Lots of places we're looking improve on this, (ie the initial page load). We'd love to hear any other thoughts you have!

Fantastic. I've been riding for roughly 10 years and, in the US at least, the idea of learning to ride before one hops on a scarily-powerful/heavy motorcycle is a polarizing factor (either one absolutely agrees with it, or one scoffs at the very notion).<p>I realize this is targeting Aussies, but the more resources dealing with the idea of learning to ride _safely_, the better.

Filtering by make and model doesn't really help me find a bike. I would de-emphasize or even remove those dropdowns. A think a pricing filter would be useful.<p>Labels for the dropdowns should be added, is someone new to motorcycles even going to realize that the first dropdown has motorcycle makes?

Pretty sure this isn't a postie bike:<p><a href="http://www.learnerapproved.com/bikes/459#" rel="nofollow">http://www.learnerapproved.com/bikes/459#</a>

Awesome, wish it was around a month or two ago when I was getting my bike! Never knew there were so many different bikes I could ride on my L plates...

Learner approved for what country? The rules here in the UK are horribly complicated and sadly a lot of the suggestions do not apply.

This is our first rails website to make into the wild. Tell us what you think!<p>Cofounders - me and acanby

Two things. It crashed Safari on iOS (latest build). The headline and tag line should be swapped.

A list of learner approved motorbikes, and no filter for ABS?

I quit riding bikes the day I started going out with a doctor and her friends. They would refer to us as "organ donors" and talking about "warm ones" coming in for organs.<p>That and videos of bikers waiting, stopped, at a red trafic light only to get killed or very seriously injured by cars losing controls. Accidents in which people in cars were still perfectly fine.<p>Life is too short to make it even shorter or to experience it has a paraplegic when you're perfectly healthy. Do like me: get rid of your bikes and buy a fancy Porsche 911 Carrera ; )<p>The Carrera is probably more dangerous than a Prius but doctors do not refer to Carrera owners as "organ donors'.