Official rules defining a Knallert 30 and a Knallert 45? {{forumTopicSubject}}

First of all, I’d like to apologize for writing this post in English. Despite living and working here (and being half-danish), my written danish is embarrassingly bad without the help of Google Translate. Either way I hope you all can help clear up some confusion I’ve been having regarding the knallert/scooter laws. I’m 15 at the moment, and hoping to take my “lille knallert” license in the coming months. This is mostly because I recently decided that I *needed* to own a Vespa, and I’ve been obsessing over the idea ever since.

The whole thing has inspired me to get a job and put a lot of work into researching all the necessary Vespa related things one might research, but there’s one thing I can’t quite figure out, and that is what exactly distinguishes the “lille” and “stor” knallerts. Borger.dk and other official websites phrase the rules as being that different licensing is only there to prevent people from willfully driving over the limit, rather than preventing people from buying something that technically *can*.

Now I had assumed after reading this that of the government wouldn’t place restrictions on what scooters I legally could and couldn’t own based on whether one could hypothetically maybe drive 15km/h faster than another, but looking at scooters that are actually for sale has confused me greatly. I’ve seen scooters that physically cannot exceed 30km/h because of manufacturer limits, but also had dba sellers tell me that their vintage scooter, despite being able to exceed 45km/h, was legally still a “lille knallert” because of its age. On the other end of things, tiny little 50cc 25 year old Vespa scooters have been described to me as “knallert 45”s by other sellers. If anyone here understands these laws better than me, I’d greatly appreciate the help.

Thanks,
Joshua