Light motorcycle

In Austria, a light motorcycle in the legal sense is a motorcycle or a motorcycle with a sidecar with an engine output of no more than 35 kW and a ratio of output to curb weight of no more than 0.2 kW / kg.

Light motorcycles can be driven from the age of 18 with an A2 driving license.

Further importance in Austria

Colloquially, the name (analogous to the light motorcycle in Germany) is often used specifically for motorcycles with a maximum displacement of 125 cm³, a maximum output of 11 kW and a maximum ratio of output to curb weight of 0.1 kW / kg. Motorcycles of this type have been allowed to be driven since 1997 from the age of 16 with a class A1 or class B driving license with additional code 111.

Web links

• ÖAMTC: A-driving license - the way to the motorcycle driving license oeamtc.at, accessed August 14, 2020.
• ÖAMTC: Steer a light motorcycle up to 125 cc with the B license oeamtc.at, accessed August 14, 2020.

Remarks

1. ↑ The additional limit of 0.2 kW / kg power per mass means that motorcycles with less than 175 kg empty weight must have less than 35 kW power. Typical light motorcycles today weigh 125 or 140 kg, for example, which limits the engine output in these examples to 25 or 28 kW.
2. ↑ This definition was deleted from the Motor Vehicle Act in 2016, but the term is still used (as of 2020) in the Driving License Act and the Driving License Act Implementation Ordinance

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Motor Vehicle Act 1967, §2, lit. 15b
2. ↑ Federal Law Gazette I No. 40/2016
3. ^ Driving license law, §2, lit. 2
4. ^ Driving license law, §6, lit. 2
5. ^ Driving license law, §2, lit. 3
6. ^ Driving license law, §6, lit. 2
7. ^ Driving license law, §2, lit. 5