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Motorcycle Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / August 2007Test advise
Hi all I am decided I would like to take my test and get on the road with bikes again. I did have a 125 when I was 17 but never did the test but took the car 1. Now some 20 years later I wish I had. Can anyone tell me what sort of tests I will have to take these days. Also will I need to do a theory test as I have had a full driving licence for a car since 17 Many thanks all Glenn On 1 Aug, 09:58, "Glenn Clark" <glenn. (NOSPAMclark@btinternet(NOSPAM).com> wrote: > I am decided I would like to take my test and get on the road with bikes > again. I did have a 125 when I was 17 but never did the test but took the > car 1. Now some 20 years later I wish I had. Can anyone tell me what sort of > tests I will have to take these days. English. > On 1 Aug, 09:58, "Glenn Clark" <glenn. > (NOSPAMclark@btinternet(NOSPAM).com> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > English. In a manner very similar to Jeremy Paxman, You're harsh! But you're fair.  Signaturedavethedave > >> I am decided I would like to take my test and get on the road with bikes > >> again. I did have a 125 when I was 17 but never did the test but took the > >> car 1. Now some 20 years later I wish I had. Can anyone tell me what sort of > >> tests I will have to take these days. First of all congratulations - it is a decision you will never regret! You need to make sure you still have provisional entitlement on your licence - the dvla have a habit of losing info from driving licenses Route 1 is Direct access. CBT on a 125, the theory test, then the practical test on a 500 or bigger. Route 2 - also known as take it at your own pace. First step is the cbt, once you have got this you can ride a 125 (upto ~15bhp) on any road except motorways for a max of 2 years then the cbt runs out. When you're confident enough on the bike (ie 6 months if you are using it frequently) do the theory test, then go for your practical test. If you do the practial test on a 125, then you are restricted to 33bhp for 2 years. If you do it on a 500 or something with over 46bhp (I think this is right) you get a full licence with no power restrictions. I would recommend a book from motorcycle city called "Pass your motorcycle test with CSM" - available on amazon. Good luck > > >> I am decided I would like to take my test and get on the road with bikes > > >> again. I did have a 125 when I was 17 but never did the test but took the > > >> car 1. Now some 20 years later I wish I had. Can anyone tell me what sort of > > >> tests I will have to take these days. > > First of all congratulations - it is a decision you will never regret! Assuming you don't f.ck up and die in a pool of bone fragments, choking on your own blood. HTH. SignatureBear Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> typed >> > >> I am decided I would like to take my test and get on the road with bikes >> > >> again. I did have a 125 when I was 17 but never did the test but [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >Assuming you don't f.ck up and die in a pool of bone fragments, choking >on your own blood. Yebbut, be fair. Even then you wouldn't regret it for *long*. An odd thought struck me the other day. Had my recent off been a fatal, I'd have known *absolutely* f.ck-all about it. One second A1M, fat warm and happy, next... I wouldn't have even got to see Elvis and the bright light. I can't decide whether that's a good, or a bad thing. SignatureWicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400 >An odd thought struck me the other day. Had my recent off been a fatal, >I'd have known *absolutely* f.ck-all about it. One second A1M, fat warm [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >I can't decide whether that's a good, or a bad thing. For who, exactly? Or is it whom? I can never remember. Anyway, it's not like most people get to choose. DMt2 will probably do that for me. SignatureDarren GSF1200N K3 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, DR <bluebandit@talktalk.net.invalid> typed >>An odd thought struck me the other day. Had my recent off been a fatal, >>I'd have known *absolutely* f.ck-all about it. One second A1M, fat warm [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >Anyway, it's not like most people get to choose. DMt2 will probably >do that for me. Well, I'd have cheated that out of a victim. :^) SignatureWicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400 >>An odd thought struck me the other day. Had my recent off been a fatal, >>I'd have known *absolutely* f.ck-all about it. One second A1M, fat warm [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> >>I can't decide whether that's a good, or a bad thing. > For who, exactly? > > Or is it whom? I can never remember. 'whom'. D. Signaturedes | 'trop d'la balle, j'kiffe grave!' BMW K100-LT > Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear > <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> typed [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > I'd have known *absolutely* f.ck-all about it. One second A1M, fat warm > and happy, next... You reckon so? It may seem that way as you have no knowledge of it now but I suspect that, at the time, you would have been painfully aware of what was going on (in slow motion even) and perhaps even repenting a little bit. Until the interface with the road of course. Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Higgins <the.best.names.are.gone@gmail.com> typed >> An odd thought struck me the other day. Had my recent off been a >>fatal, I'd have known *absolutely* f.ck-all about it. One second A1M, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >what was going on (in slow motion even) and perhaps even repenting a >little bit. Until the interface with the road of course. Well, witnesses say I didn't brake, and I was KO'd in the initial impact (hence the 'ragdoll' during my brief flight). So I reckon it was as close to instantaneous as it gets. SignatureWicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400 > Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Higgins > <the.best.names.are.gone@gmail.com> typed [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > (hence the 'ragdoll' during my brief flight). So I reckon it was as > close to instantaneous as it gets. I obviously missed the detailed part of the story. I suppose if your time's up it would be one of the better ways to go. > Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Higgins > <the.best.names.are.gone@gmail.com> typed [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > impact (hence the 'ragdoll' during my brief flight). So I reckon it > was as close to instantaneous as it gets. I was punted off in '98, and the transition was: riding home from work > waking up in the gutter[1]. There may have been a phase of airborne whimpering with fear, but I don't recall it. Really, it's only "me" when I'm awake - other states include "snoring" and "decomposing". If I'd advanced to State III during the incident, I'd have been none the wiser[2] IMHO. From an experiential viewpoint, I might as well have been dead. A month or so later, I had a burst appendix. If I hadn't had access to medical treatment, a death involving literal seconds of being unmanned by terror would have been, comparatively, delightful. [1]Platy's Law of Waking Up in the Gutter: Face down = drunk, face up = knocked off bike. [2]unless it's true what they say[3] about the virgins. [3]"Virgins? Yes, mate. Go and talk to the Good Shepherd over there, and he'll pick you a nice clean one out of the flock." Signatureplatypus "fastidious and precise" > I would recommend a book from motorcycle city called "Pass your > motorcycle test with CSM" - available on amazon. The book didn't do either company much good, did it? MC & most CSM franchises went tits-up years ago. Signaturewessie at tesco dot net BMW R1150GS "Wessie is a lovely man with many wonderful qualities" TM Blaney > Hi all > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > tests I will have to take these days. Also will I need to do a theory test > as I have had a full driving licence for a car since 17 AFAIR it's all in the FAQ - link is in my sig. SignatureMorini Corsaro 125 | CB450K4 | XL250 Motosport x2 | 900SSD | K1100LT Triumph T-Bird chop | CB400/4 BOTAFOF #33 TWA#10 The UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/index.html "Je profite du paysage" - Joe Bar OK so here is another question. If I have a full license for a moped why do I need to take a cbt. They obviously think you capable of riding a bike so why make us do a cbt. Seems a little odd. >> Hi all >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > AFAIR it's all in the FAQ - link is in my sig. >OK so here is another question. Another question and your first telling off. Please refrain from posting your replies at the top, this is Usenet not some web blog, there are conventions to be adhered to. Details of the where and why are to be found in the ukrm ffaq along with some marvellous information about the tests you need to take in order to be allowed to ride a motorcycle on British roads. ukrm itself is only to be used if you wish to discuss GPS and motor cars. Signaturesteve auvache A Bloo one with built in safety features We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember steve auvache <dont_spam@thecow.me.uk> saying something like: > ukrm itself is only to >be used if you wish to discuss GPS and motor cars. BBC, satnavs, IT stuff, work, what? mobile phone, all grist to the mill, but on no account type about bikes. SignatureDave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the river cleaned out in a day. > OK so here is another question. If I have a full license for a moped > why do I need to take a cbt. They obviously think you capable of > riding a bike so why make us do a cbt. Seems a little odd. Because the law says that you have to. And if you'd read the FAQ as I recommended then you would have noticed that we really, really dislike top posters. SignatureMorini Corsaro 125 | CB450K4 | XL250 Motosport x2 | 900SSD Triumph T-Bird chop | K1100LT BOTAFOF #33 TWA#10 The UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/index.html "Je profite du paysage" - Joe Bar > OK so here is another question. If I have a full license for a moped > why do I need to take a cbt. They obviously think you capable of > riding a bike so why make us do a cbt. Seems a little odd. First - you need to stop top-posting. Second, you need to learn to snip sigs. Third - they don't think you are capable of riding a bike. They allow you to ride a moped (under 50cc and not capable of more than 31mph) on the basis that the risk to you and others is comparatively low. Given that some learner-legal 125cc bikes are capable of over 70mph there is a world of difference. SignatureTony '04 XL1200C, '95 LS650 OMF#24 On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:58:35 +0100, "Glenn Clark" <glenn.(NOSPAMclark@btinternet(NOSPAM).com> squeezed out the following: > Also will I need to do a theory test >as I have had a full driving licence for a car since 17 Yes. Note the theory test gets bigger (and more expensive) from 3rd Sept. SignatureColin Irvine YZF1000R BOF#33 BONY#34 COFF#06 BHaLC#5 http://www.colinandpat.co.uk > Yes. Note the theory test gets bigger (and more expensive) from 3rd > Sept. No - if you've had a full car license for twenty years you do not have to do the theory test. SignatureRick Brown KLE500 Old GPZ600R Older >> Yes. Note the theory test gets bigger (and more expensive) from 3rd >> Sept. > > No - if you've had a full car license for twenty years you do not have to do > the theory test. <fx: raised eyebrow> Really? SignatureJoe XV1900 Stratoliner (with added sparkle) http://www.pikeyjoe.kinghell.com/MyStrat.jpg PikeyJoe kinghell.com >>> No - if you've had a full car license for twenty years you do not have >>> to do >> the theory test. > > <fx: raised eyebrow> Really? If you had a full car license before 1-2-2001 you are exempt from the theory test for bikes and vice versa. http://www.gnn.gov.uk/content/detail.asp?NewsAreaID=2&ReleaseID=55390&print=true (Note 4) Unless the law has changed more recently :-) SignatureRick Brown KLE500 Old GPZ600R Older > If you had a full car license before 1-2-2001 you are exempt from the > theory test for bikes and vice versa. > > http://www.gnn.gov.uk/content/detail.asp?NewsAreaID=2&ReleaseID=55390&print=true > (Note 4) Bad form replying to my own post but I didn't read this properly. I took my car test last February and didn't have to take the theory test 'cos I'd had my bike license for so long. Assumed (wrongly it appears) that vice versa would be true. I'll get me coat ... SignatureRick Brown KLE500 Old GPZ600R Older > > Yes. Note the theory test gets bigger (and more expensive) from 3rd > > Sept. > > No - if you've had a full car license for twenty years you do not > have to do the theory test. I'm pretty sure that this has changed recently. Also, the DVLA site suggests that you do need a theory test certificate number to book the practical test. I doubt that you still have that after twenty years... SignatureMorini Corsaro 125 | CB450K4 | XL250 Motosport x2 | 900SSD Triumph T-Bird chop | K1100LT BOTAFOF #33 TWA#10 The UKRM FAQ: http://www.ukrm.net/faq/index.html "Je profite du paysage" - Joe Bar >> Yes. Note the theory test gets bigger (and more expensive) from 3rd >> Sept. > > No - if you've had a full car license for twenty years you do not have to do > the theory test. Well I had to take one only two years ago and I'd been driving for over 20 years |
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