How much experience did you have before your test

[Kickstart]

Hi

Further to this thread, how many years riding experience and miles had you before you did your test?

For me about 21 months and about 25000 miles.

All the best

Keith
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[Steve-D]

1 year on a FS1E at 16 about 3k miles.
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[Wave2k]

7 months and about 5,000 miles
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[MarJay]

I'd been driving a car for a year, and I did approximately 18 months and about 10,000 miles on my NS125 when I did my A1 (restricted) test. I then ran a restricted VFR400 NC21, and for the last few months of my restriction a derestricted SV650.

Which, I think is a sensible route. I certainly didn't buy a sports 600 or R1 in my first three and a bit years of riding...
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[chris-red]

1 year and about 6/7k miles.

Marjay if you had an A1 licence you where riding the VFR illegally, an A1 licence lets you ride up to a 125cc without L plates and is taken on a bike with a cc less than 120. An A2 licence lets you ride any size but you are restricted to 33bhp for 2 years.
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[D O G]

Only those miles which I did on the DA course - probably no more than 500.

I had been driving for the thick end of 10 years though, and probably racked up 175k in that time.

Still, after the GS500, the next bike I jumped on was a SRAD600.

[kawakid]

2 months on a 125. Then passed 1st time.

Was 32 though and driving since 17.
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[Charlie]

Erm about 15 months and 8,000 miles probably. Can't really remember too well but it was around those figures.

10 months on a twist and go and 5 months on my City Fly 125. Probably did about 4,000 miles on each bike I think. Maybe more on the 125 as I was commuting a bit more. Pasted with 0 minors first time. Never driven a car on the road.

City fly finished up ith 11,000 miles added by me, and current bike has 12,000 added by me. So by April I will have had bikes 3 years and done 27,000 + miles.
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[Ant132]

15 months from CBT to test.
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[Stiffler]

I got 5 months and around 4000 miles experiance on the bike. Passed DAS first time no minors.

Had been driving for 7 years.

Thanks

Tim
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[Im-a-Ridah]

About 3 years.

[JonT]

3 months, 1500ish miles

[Rovman]

I did a 5 day das including cbt as day 1 and passed first time. (was supposed to be full DAS but basically i sucked, so stayed on the 125 and did the restricted test)

I had also done another CBT 2 years prior but never ended up getting a 125, so after that expired i just spur of the moment booked the full course.

No prior experience on the road on bike or car.
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[salty21]

20 months 25000 miles on the nsr, i loved that bike
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[AndyGB]

3 months and 1300 miles on a 125, then 6 hours on a DAS (plus, being on the older side, 22 years in cars before that).

[swiftb]

11yrs

[salty21]

[tzr]

12 hours at < 60mph on a CG125.
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[nick606]

about 7000 miles on a rs50 about 300 miles on a 125 passed first time.

[Faldo]

3 lessons!

Had been driving on the road for 7 years in a car though.

I was quite surprised how little knowledge of the the road is actually required to pass the bike test. I suspect that had I not of been driving for years and just gone straight into biking I would of definitely of had an accident by now due to lack of observation and planning.

I suppose it's a lot harder to teach on a motorcycle as the riding instructor is unable to see all your reactions to what is going on around you, unlike a car instructor.
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[swiftb]

[NexusDragon]

Six months, 400 miles. Passed Das with 4 minors.
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DAS Passed 19th April 08. 07' YBR125 > Yamaha FZ6 S2 '08 > 1998 YZF600R ThunderCat

[Seb]

About 2 miles and ~5 minutes on my brothers Superdream that I'd just helped fix.

I didn't even have a lid on, let alone gloves or proper boots, things ye do as a lad eh? Wound up always wanting a bike after that, I just never seemed to have the motivation till the rumors of the test changes started floating about. Then bam, ZZR on the drive and a DAS booked that week

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[TheDonUK]

Probably 9 Months on my 125 and a year before in a car, I did alot of miles in that first 9 months/year, maybe 30k
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[NiteMare]

about 11 years, often being chased by the law for lack of documents and riding bikes a little larger than i'd have been entitled to if i'd had a provisional licence
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