The new motorcycle test! ! ! What the hell?

[Blunet600]

I Hope this isnt true, I was talking to a friend the other day and he wants to do his test but told me that there is only one type of motorcycle test (no more A2) and that the test costs £500!!!!!
Can anyone confirm this? If its true then that is ridiculous!!!!
cheers.
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[carlperkins00...]

haha

[JAMSXR]

Maybe that was a price for a CBT and a 3/5 day intensive course with the test at the end?
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[Blunet600]

phew! that doesnt sound as bad. What do you mean the categories remain the same? The website says you can only do the one test, module 1, then module 2.
Also, do you know what the light module test, standard module 1 and big module 1 are all about? does that mean depending on what bike your sitting the test on, i.e 125 would be light bike?
cheers.
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[JAMSXR]

https://www.dsa.gov.uk/Category.asp?cat=405

The link explains all
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[tutton]

Your friend has had some wacky tobaccy
its the same as it was before
just now in each catagory you do a mod1 offroad then the mod2 onroad.
I know this as i passed the a2 last week
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Past: '05 Peugeot XPS '99 Aprillia RS125 '94 FZR600R
Current: '02 ZX636 A1P '51 CCM R30

[JAMSXR]

[_sketch_]

I heard/read that they were changing the system in 2013/14 to make the test longer and harder - Also they want to stop L-plate riders being out by themselves.

Dont know if its true
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[tutton]

I said its just the same but with the exceptions you tosser.
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Past: '05 Peugeot XPS '99 Aprillia RS125 '94 FZR600R
Current: '02 ZX636 A1P '51 CCM R30

[LordShaftesbu...]

[JAMSXR]

[ricky_v]

Basically, all this change is purely driven by the "licence directives" from unelected foreigners in brussels.

the 1st licence directive came in in 1997, this prevented people doing the car test having B+E (towing) C1 (LGV up to 7.5 tonnes) and D1 (minibus) all in the name of harmonisation, also the DVLA ltd were forced by Fernando Henez MEP to replace the lifetime paper driving licences with this nice convinient photo style licence (still with a paper counterpart ) but becomes invalid in 10 years, so DVLA ltd can make money.

the second licence directive came in very recently, which does include this bike test fiasco. Now when i did my perfectly okay A2 only 13 months ago, the test fee was £56.50, now its gone up to £90.50, a massive £34 increase for a test which has been broken up into 2, and the 2 manovers you did on the road (plus now 1 extra) been taken off the road, and having the test in metric

The third licence directive is due in at 1013, whis includes proposals for extra testing from A2 to A, raising the riding age to 18, and compulsory medicals for all licence holders. DSA ltd and DVLA ltd love this as its yet more money under a guise of safety

https://ec.europa.eu/dgs/energy_transport/publication/memos/2006_03_27_driving_licence_en.pdf

i cant help but think that all government departments, and the government is only anserable to the EU, a puppet government lets say. the BBC dont really touch EU issues simply because the BBC recieves funding from the EU, so therefore pro EU. This is why much of the change is/has gone un-noticed.

It is also my belief that they are trying to have less bikers on the road, simply to improve KSI stats. our puppet government isnt really keen on bikers either as they recieve less revenue during a bikes lifetime than a cars lifetime.

BTW, i dont believe L platers are going to loose the right to ride alone, i believe thats MCN telling porkies again (like the "cameras" that track you around the cat n fiddle)

[blutonium92]

Im just glad i did my test just before the change over .
Still wouldnt have made much difference if i had done the new one.

One thing though is why the fuck did i have to do 2 theory tests?!
Did my one for my bike back in march and the one for my car a few weeks ago. Absolute shit.. its the same test! they just want to stinge another 30quid of you.
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Now - Ducati 748, Laverda 650 Sport
Had- 56 Aprilia RS50, 03 Aprilia RS50, Hond VFR 400 NC30, Aprilia RS250, Suzuki SV650

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