Can I drive a manual transmission motorcycle with an ordinary motorcycle license?

jsm0803 · September 14, 2020, 11:39am

I’ve gotten a driver license of ordinary heavy-duty motorcycle (普通重型機器) today. And I used an automatic transmission motorcycle for the exam.

Is it also possible that I drive a manual transmission motorcycle under 250cc displacement with my license?

tempogain · September 14, 2020, 11:49am

According to this, you can drive a “light motorcycle”

已領有普通重型機器腳踏車駕駛執照者，得駕駛普通重型機器腳踏車、輕型機器腳踏車。

I don’t see any reference to transmission types and can’t imagine there would be.

unhelpfulmoth · September 14, 2020, 12:01pm

Yeah it’s fine.

RickRoll · September 14, 2020, 3:55pm

It is possible, although it makes no sense.
But it’s Taiwan, so…

jsm0803 · September 14, 2020, 5:03pm

@tempogain Thank you.
@RickRoll Hahaha you are right.
@unhelpfulmoth Thank you!

volv1992 · September 14, 2020, 5:45pm

I gather that’s light in the sense that it carries people and not goods, like light and heavy rail?

I can’t ride a motorbike at all, why am I here?