Teenagers may obtain a motorbike license from the age of 16, though the license is limited to only 50cc. With the soring petrol price (currently 7.00 ZAR to the litre) and general traffic congestion, our cities and suburbs may see many more of these lower-cc motorbikes on the street.

Like any boy should, I love bikes - but, they can be really annoying at times, disturbing our quiet suburb by either buzzing backwards and forwards (sounding much like very really loud lawnmowers) or screaming down the road with 1000 cubes of brute force.

I'm torn between loving and hating them.