Whats the cheapest route to a full licence?

[slyrob]

I'm over 21 with a cbt and have ridden almost every day for 5 months with previous riding experience, I have also had a full car licence for 12 years. What is the cheapest way for me to obtain a full bike licence as the local riding schools seem to be looking to pull down my pants and give me a friendly bumming whilst removing my children's inheritance from my bank account.

many thanks

yours sorely

Rob
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[Ste]

You can do the A2 test on a 125 without having any lessons and that's the cheapest, assuming you pass within a reasonable number of attempts!

If you want to do DAS then you'll need to go to a riding school to get experience riding a bigger bike before the test, to find the cheapest option for that you'll need to talk to different riding schools in your area.

[slyrob]

presumably that's the one where I get a 33 bhp restriction? it might be the way forward as i intend to keep the NSR for going in and out of London and want something bigger for longer trips and weekends + it would be really handy to be able to go 2 up
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[jimspeed]

yea my A2 licence cost me around £180 + my cbt.
i did the cbt and bought a £300 125 with tax and test on it then had a go at the theory test (£20 i think) passed that 1st time so watches a few of the mod 1 videos on youtube (someone on here did a very good one)
i passed that 1st time too so booked my mod 2 for a week later and then rang up the folk i had my cbt with and asked if they would give me an hour or so before my test on the day (rather than the 3 days at £120 a day!! they wanted)
they charged me £50 for 2 hours just before my test and i passed 1st time.
it was the best £50 i spent as they just brushed up my road skills and told me where i would most prob fail my test .
i have been a car driver for 15 years so they didn't have to teach me to "drive" or how the road markings work in that 2 hours..
oh and i sold the 125 for £500 a week after passing so really the test actually gained me about £20
go for it i found that actually passing mod 1 gave me so much more confidence
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[slyrob]

I reckon it might be the one for me, do you book the module 1 and 2 through a riding school or is it direct to dsa or what? The theory looks to be a piece of piss, just did the two practice ones online and got 59/60 although I've heard the hazard perception is the more dificult part (didn't exist when I did the car theory!)
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Pitslayer wrote "it could be Ndubz.....ruining this once great place with donkey gobbling loafer knobbing "music".
silky666 wrote "In my eyes, when you shake cocks with the devil, you may as well go for the full reach around"
Villers wrote "as reliable as a ginger stepchild on smack"

[N cee thirty]

[Ste]

A2 is where you're restricted to 33bhp for two years.

You can book your tests directly with the DSA. https://www.dsa.gov.uk/

You can get the computer DVDs with practice theory tests and hazard perception tests. Either from book shops like amazon or they can be downloaded from the usual places.

[N cee thirty]

i got a dsa pratice dvd off ebay for 99p,really good
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[m0l0t0v]

I understand wanting to do things on the cheap but I will never understand why someone would do the A2 restricted test rather than the full unrestricted when their over the age?

I just think it's pointless, but at the end of the day it is what you want.
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[slyrob]

just can't afford the DAS at the moment or the time to do it, i would like to do DAS but at the mo it's looking like A2 or nowt. If I get some spare readies in the summer I can always upgrade + the majority of my riding is in central London and really the 125 is more than adequate, the additional bonus of being able to take the other half would be the main difference to me
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Pitslayer wrote "it could be Ndubz.....ruining this once great place with donkey gobbling loafer knobbing "music".
silky666 wrote "In my eyes, when you shake cocks with the devil, you may as well go for the full reach around"
Villers wrote "as reliable as a ginger stepchild on smack"

[m0l0t0v]

You could search around places and see what the cheapest option for DAS is and go from there, or just save up bit by bit and do the full thing?

That's what I did with very little wage!

But again, it is what you want. So all the power to you
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**\Tarmacsurfer/** said: It's that immaculately manly coiffure of yours isn't it. One glimpse of your virile locks and the punters can't wait to buy whatever it is you suggest, as it might let them be just a little bit like the Adonis that is our very own Molly Doovydoo said: Its not my fault I can't get it up properly, I just wasn't blessed

[Ste]

[slyrob]

hmmmmmmn, see ya point,well I've booked the theory so I've got a couple of weeks to think it through, hopefully find somewhere not too expensive and try for a two/three day DAS, till then i will continue to dream away time on biketrader
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Pitslayer wrote "it could be Ndubz.....ruining this once great place with donkey gobbling loafer knobbing "music".
silky666 wrote "In my eyes, when you shake cocks with the devil, you may as well go for the full reach around"
Villers wrote "as reliable as a ginger stepchild on smack"

[m0l0t0v]

You can buy a cheap big bike.

MY GT550 cost me 200 quid! (I have just spent 100 quid for new exhausts) but otherwise it's frigging awesome and does what I need it to do. And I can still have fun for it.


Fun bikes don't have to be expensive
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'99 Hornet 600 , VFR 400 NC30 '92 , Kasawamasaki GT 550 , '98 Hornet 600
**\Tarmacsurfer/** said: It's that immaculately manly coiffure of yours isn't it. One glimpse of your virile locks and the punters can't wait to buy whatever it is you suggest, as it might let them be just a little bit like the Adonis that is our very own Molly Doovydoo said: Its not my fault I can't get it up properly, I just wasn't blessed

[slyrob]

Easy for you to say, I'll need something pretty special to make up for my lack of flowing perfectly kempt locks and Colombian heritage currently I'm thinking zx7r, loved them since childhood
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Pitslayer wrote "it could be Ndubz.....ruining this once great place with donkey gobbling loafer knobbing "music".
silky666 wrote "In my eyes, when you shake cocks with the devil, you may as well go for the full reach around"
Villers wrote "as reliable as a ginger stepchild on smack"

[m0l0t0v]

Hahahahahahaha! That's made me lol properly loud!

Nothing wrong with my GT. It wheelies, it's big, it's black, it's alright on acceleration.

On the mayday run the people I was leading had plenty of fun, until it got to the straights and they were there sat commuting while I was at the limit crouched over

It's not the ride, it's how you ride it
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'99 Hornet 600 , VFR 400 NC30 '92 , Kasawamasaki GT 550 , '98 Hornet 600
**\Tarmacsurfer/** said: It's that immaculately manly coiffure of yours isn't it. One glimpse of your virile locks and the punters can't wait to buy whatever it is you suggest, as it might let them be just a little bit like the Adonis that is our very own Molly Doovydoo said: Its not my fault I can't get it up properly, I just wasn't blessed

[m0l0t0v]

And besides, you have an OH so no need for bragging rights.
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'99 Hornet 600 , VFR 400 NC30 '92 , Kasawamasaki GT 550 , '98 Hornet 600
**\Tarmacsurfer/** said: It's that immaculately manly coiffure of yours isn't it. One glimpse of your virile locks and the punters can't wait to buy whatever it is you suggest, as it might let them be just a little bit like the Adonis that is our very own Molly Doovydoo said: Its not my fault I can't get it up properly, I just wasn't blessed

[slyrob]

To be fair the OH more than makes up for any lack of style i display, but i'll be overjoyed to lose the L plates as it does somewhat make me feel like a child/loser that can't be trusted with more than 14 bhp and whether or not that is true is not the point! right, must stop thinking of fast bikes and go and do some more work, hand in at 12 tomorrow
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Pitslayer wrote "it could be Ndubz.....ruining this once great place with donkey gobbling loafer knobbing "music".
silky666 wrote "In my eyes, when you shake cocks with the devil, you may as well go for the full reach around"
Villers wrote "as reliable as a ginger stepchild on smack"

[m0l0t0v]

Yes but would you rather show up people in their expensive slow cars on an expensive and fats bike or a cheap rustbucket with duck tape and l plates and really make them feel like crap?

Was going through the middle of wycombe the other week on my GT and someone shouted out "get a real bike!" from Yates where a group of blokes were drinking and then I pop a wheelie all the way to the end of the street, to applause and cheers from the same group, save the shouter
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'99 Hornet 600 , VFR 400 NC30 '92 , Kasawamasaki GT 550 , '98 Hornet 600
**\Tarmacsurfer/** said: It's that immaculately manly coiffure of yours isn't it. One glimpse of your virile locks and the punters can't wait to buy whatever it is you suggest, as it might let them be just a little bit like the Adonis that is our very own Molly Doovydoo said: Its not my fault I can't get it up properly, I just wasn't blessed

[slyrob]

i know what you mean, i used to drive my 278bhp Renault 5 as my daily run around, no outside indication of mods with only the rather fruity exhaust note giving it away.....ah the joyous look of despair on bmw m3 drivers as they slipped away in the rear view mirror ahhhh happy days, one day the mighty Renault shall return! still I've got 17 years before my daughters old enough to drive it!
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Pitslayer wrote "it could be Ndubz.....ruining this once great place with donkey gobbling loafer knobbing "music".
silky666 wrote "In my eyes, when you shake cocks with the devil, you may as well go for the full reach around"
Villers wrote "as reliable as a ginger stepchild on smack"

[metalangel]

When you say stuff about inheritances and not having the time or cash, I assume you mean an intensive three or four day DAS course, yeah?

They should let you do lessons, to spread the time and cost. I did my DAS with one and two hour lessons every week or every other week.
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