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Author Topic: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike  (Read 3053 times)

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Crazycarzowner

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Been threatening to do it for a while now, so I've booked the test to start. Always wanted to ride a bike but never gone through with it. Then its CBT & Direct access.  :o :o :o
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Re: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike
« Reply #1 on: 07 April 2014, 20:23:53 »

Enjoy, I did it back in 2009. Enjoyed every minute of learning, bar the U turns perhaps  ::)

Quickly moved onto the GS & done some good tours on it  :)
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Re: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike
« Reply #2 on: 07 April 2014, 20:24:58 »

Bit more of an arse ache than when I did it.
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Re: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike
« Reply #3 on: 07 April 2014, 20:27:18 »

Bit more of an arse ache than when I did it.

I got in just before they changed the test. I did the traditional theory + road test, everyone was very unhappy at the new setup. Apparently numbers of people applying went down vastly  :-\
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Re: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike
« Reply #4 on: 07 April 2014, 20:28:49 »

Passed my test on a 30 BHP Yamaha RD250. 1977 was the year. :y :y
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Re: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike
« Reply #5 on: 07 April 2014, 20:28:49 »

My 'CBT'was done on a mate's Fizzy down 'the backs' (ie the backs of the terraced houses) .....there's the brake, there's another brake, there's the clutch & gears .... off you go!  :y :y :y :y :y Passed my bike test in 1980 on a mate's Z250  :y :y :y
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Re: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike
« Reply #6 on: 07 April 2014, 20:29:32 »

To be honest I've never set foot on a motorbike albeit a twist & go when I was a kid, realy know diddly squat about em but I'd love to learn.

IF, if I do pass direct access I may be questioning you on what to look for when buying & which are the best for my circumstances  ;)
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Re: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike
« Reply #7 on: 07 April 2014, 20:29:50 »

Bit more of an arse ache than when I did it.

Same here.

My test cost me £12, took 20 minutes and half a dozen highway code questions (applied for the test 2 months and 2 weeks before I turned 17 to beat what was the first of the 2 part test that was introduced on March 29, 1982).
Took the test in the morning on a Honda CB 100N, and by the afternoon I was on a Suzi GSX 750ET  :) :)


IF, if I do pass direct access I may be questioning you on what to look for when buying & which are the best for my circumstances  ;)
What sort of ride are you after..
Plastic bullet, Cruiser, Streetfighter, Moto X, ? ? ?
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Re: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike
« Reply #8 on: 07 April 2014, 20:31:39 »

To be honest I've never set foot on a motorbike albeit a twist & go when I was a kid, realy know diddly squat about em but I'd love to learn.

IF, if I do pass direct access I may be questioning you on what to look for when buying & which are the best for my circumstances  ;)

This was my first bike, it's what I passed my DAS on. Nice little thing (Yamaha MT-03)



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Re: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike
« Reply #9 on: 07 April 2014, 20:32:15 »

...
 the 2 part test that was introduced on March 29, 1982).
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Bloody Hell! Was it that long ago?  :o
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Re: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike
« Reply #10 on: 07 April 2014, 20:37:36 »

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 the 2 part test that was introduced on March 29, 1982).
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Bloody Hell! Was it that long ago?  :o

It was indeed, I posted the application form on March 20th to ensure it got to the (then called) DVLC in time for the deadline.
If I had failed, I would have been doing the 2 part test which taught you nothing more than how to behave like a trained seal and would have resulted in gravel rash as one of the stopping tests was proven to be impossible to perform even for respected stunt riders.

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Re: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike
« Reply #11 on: 07 April 2014, 20:56:01 »

I did the 2 parter in 1986.  :)

The Part 1 instructor was called 'Pirate' and he had 1 leg and 1 eye and rode a battered Honda CX500 and when he pulled up he sorted of twisted and lent so the bike fell on his good leg side!  :o  :D

He used to squint at us and say in his broad Devon " If yee do what I tell ee, yull paaaas! If you don't, you won't! "  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike
« Reply #12 on: 07 April 2014, 21:59:47 »

I sneaked through a month before the two part malarky started.  I take my hat off to anyone that gets their full license these days.  Go for it !!  :y
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Re: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike
« Reply #13 on: 07 April 2014, 22:04:18 »

Officialdom does not like motorbikes and they do all they can to discourage people from riding them, but WE know that there is nothing like them for fun - except when it rains!
now, you rotten lot, you have made me want to get back on two wheels again - I have a basket-case Sunbeam S8 in pieces buried in my garage......

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Re: Well I've gone & done it - Theory booked for Motorbike
« Reply #14 on: 07 April 2014, 22:11:26 »

Passed mine in 1976 on a Suzuki TS125  :-[ cost £5 and 20 minutes of riding around a block and passing the examiner.  ::) 8) Back then you could ride any bike on a learner licence as long as it had a sidecar  :y
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