Honda CB250 on CBT?

[jackw72]

Hi all,

One of my lady friends has a father who is very much into biking and he has been restoring an old Honda CB250, she wants to do her CBT and start riding.

One thing keeps popping into my mind, the CB250 which must be fairly old, will it be low-powered enough to be legal to ride on a CBT and provisional licence?

IIRC my Honda Xr125 had about 15bhp, if a CB250 starts off with 21ish surely it must be around 15.

Thanks in advance.

Jack
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[Pete247]

Not on a CBT, that only allows you to ride up to 125cc, if you want to ride any bigger bikes then you ned to pass the bike test as well

[bikertomm]

^ What he said.

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[Teflon-Mike]

The Honda CB250N 'Super Dream' stopped being Learner Legal in 1982, when they introduced the 125 learner laws.
Don't matter how much power it doesn't make, its TOO BIG.
Would have to do full suite of tests, CBT, Theory/Hazard, Mod 1 & Mod2, to get a licence to ride it legally on the road.
However, it would be 33bhp complient to ride on an A2 'Restricted' licence, obtained by taking the test on a 125, rather than having to do DAS.
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[Rogerborg]

Mmm, what part of "250 is more than 125" was confusing you?

Yes, it's a daft limit: it should be power and power-to-weight like the A (restricted) and pending A2, but 30 seconds of research would tell you that the limit for L riding on a CBT is 125cc.
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[Doovy]

250 > 125
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[MarJay]

Where do people get this idea that you can ride bikes bigger than a 125 on a CBT. This has always been the case since CBT's were introduced, and there has never been so much as a hint of anything different happening.
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[Nai]

Could he / she restrict it to 15bhp?

*has no idea about how restricting bikes works*

[MarJay]

[truslack]

[Nai]

Hah, I did say I had no idea about restricting

[Doovy]

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[jackw72]

Haha I know it was a stupid question, I was rather hoping there be some sort of loophole with engine size like there is for a restricted licence.

But neigh.
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[Teflon-Mike]

[Rogerborg]

Sorry, no. 250 requires that you pass an A (big boy bike) or A2 (125cc) test. Either one gets you an "A" license, but if you sit an A2 test on a 125, there's a 2 year restriction to 25kW / 33bhp (and .16kW/kg).
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[MarJay]

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[weasley]

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