mod 1 costs

[andym]

Bit of a silly question.... either that or I'm showing my Scottish side and being a tight arse....

Anyway, I asked the local bike instructor how much it would be to go for my mod 1 and 2 and he said that for the mod 1 I should set aside £100 and for the mod 2 about £250. We've done a bit of riding (about 4 hours so far, (2 hours on my own bike and 2 on his)).

I have my mod 1 tomorrow morning and so far he hasn't asked for any money, so when he was confirming the time I decided to ask how much I needed to take with me and he said that I owed £195.50 and that includes the cost of the mod 1.

So I'm just wondering if this is about the right price?

If I went for a DAC what would that have included? As I was led to believe that they included CBT, theory, mod 1 and mod 2. So far I've paid for my CBT (£115), theory (£31), mod 1 (£195.50) and mod 1 (£250+)

[ThoughtContro...]

I can only give you a guide from the prices of two years ago.

Mod 1 the test itself would cost £15 for the test and ~£60 for the morning/afternoons bike hire. The £60 may have gone up as petrol costs (and everything else) have rocketed. Mod 2 would be £75 for the test and again ~£60 for the bike hire.

Half a days training is again ~£60, a full day is ~£120. The half day was something like 9-12 or 1-4, tho you normally didn't get out the yard till 9.15 or 9.20, and there was a break for a tea/coffee somewhere in the middle to discuss good bad points, where you fucked up and what you should have done etc.

Again this was the school I went with, and it was two years ago. They were charging £99 for a CBT. Another more well known local school were charging £125 at that time.

Work out your costs accordingly, allowing for any inflation well above official government figures.
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[Paulington]

If that isn't including the training he is ripping you off and then some.

Motorcycle Module 1: £15.50 (WEEKEND TEST: £15.50).
Motorcycle Module 2: £75.00 (WEEKEND TEST: £88.50).

If he is charging you ANYTHING more than that for the actual TEST itself (I.e. if on the invoice the combined test fees come to more than the combined prices of the above) then he is overcharging you.

To be honest with you, even with the cost of training included from what I remember paying, he is ripping you off fantastically as £300 will get you TWO DAYS TRAINING and YOUR MODULE 1 and 2 TEST INCLUDED in the price on your own bike.

I'd ask him to break it down for you, he seems to be overcharging you a ton.
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[Daytona Paul]

[andym]

it was broken down into 6 hours training at £30 p/h (even though I used my own bike, insurance and equipment for 2 of them), and the other 2 I'm guessing he is going to use for the test itself (even though he's only mentioned about half an hour of training before the test.

One thing is for sure... I'll get a friend to train me for my mod 2 and save a bundle going by his costs

[Pol Anorl]

£15.50 for mod 1 i passed mine yesterday
£75 mod 2 on tuesday 9th i hope i pass <3
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[andym]

passed my mod 1 today.... and he realised I used my own bike for the first 2 hours and only charged me £160

[Rogerborg]

I can't understand why anyone with their own bike and going for an A2 test would waste money on lessons. You're riding alone before the test, you're riding alone after it, you'd better be safe on your own.

You can learn during a test, but you can't pass during a lesson.
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[ThoughtContro...]

For mod 2 a lesson or two might pick up on any bad habits you've picked up, lifesavers or shoulder checks you miss, similar stuff.

Mod 1 for a 125 test you can practice yourself. Watch some videos on youtube, download the official course and dimensions pdfs, find a quiet industrial estate or retail car park when they're dead, throw down some coke cans or similar collected crap as marker "bollards" at about the right distance for your course, and practice away. Figure 8's, U turns and slow riding till your thoroughly bored of them. Make sure you do your shoulder checks before each manoeuvre, so that gets rammed into your subconcious, where you'll do them without having to think about it, and are unlikely to miss doing them on the test.

I practiced my swerves on a road with square speed bumps in the centre. Do some runs down it, sometimes in the wet, at 35mph indicated and if you can get round them bollards are a doddle, since these are much bigger an obstacle.

Emergency stop I practiced in a retail car park with a good long, straight entrance road. Again 35mph indicated, for a guaranteed 50kph, e-stop and don't lock up the back wheel. Again did it a couple of times in the wet too.

If you've got your own bike then there's no excuse not to go out and get lots of practice.
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