Cars on a bike licence?

mr.z · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Karma :

Life is funny sometimes, dispite my mum being a driveing instructor for years i never got arround to doing my test, i did however go out of my way spending allot of money doing my DAS because i couldn't see the point of haveing a licence and no car...

I'll do it at some point but...

I remember reading that some cars under a certain weight can be driven on a motorcycle licence, has anyone got any experiance of these? ive seen ones that are in current production but they are outrageously overpriced and just plain pants...

There is a fiat 500 being sold up the road, seems like the sort of car that would come into this catagory, it would be interesting little car with a 1000cc 4cylinder lump in it Twisted Evil

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89CBRChris · Scooby Slapper Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Karma :

the only car I ever heard of being driven on a bike licence is a Three wheeler like the robin reliant.

Hope this helps

carvell · Scuttler Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Karma :

This has been done a few times, look on your licence.

If you have category B1 you can drive a car under a certain weight (like 500kg I think). You will have this if you passed your bike test on or before around 1999.

If you do not have B1 on your licence, you cannot drive a car.

You CANNOT drive a car under category A.

Simple. Smile

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Demonic69 · The Pink Rhino Joined: 31 May 2002 Karma :

AFAIK you can drive a car that doesn't have reverse?
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mr.z · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Karma :

Yeh i do remember now there being something meaning the licence needs to be before a certain date, i gor mine last year.. bugger... never mind..

I guess i will have to do the stupid car licence then, i still do fancy something small and stupid for a car though, as impractical as possible , with two seats and no boot, cba giveing lifts to everyone all the time Razz

Thanks for clarifying though Thumbs Up

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fuzz · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Karma :

Simple - find out what category the vehicle is. If it's not on your licence, you can't drive/ride it.
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Andy99 · Spanner Monkey Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Karma :

So the choice is simple,do you go for a dodgy little three wheel Reliant or one of those bike engined little beasties like a megablade,hmmmm let me think Mr. Green

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Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

I'm am fairly sure that she will know the laws about the licenses for cars, which is what she teaches in.

A car with a bike engine in it is still classed as a car, the engine size or what it was made for doesn't change anything else about the fact it is still a car.

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Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

Have you had a look on the DSA website, and DVLA one?

mrchips · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Karma :

A car that can be driven on a bike licence is an Aixam 500. 500cc petrol and diesel engines which will do about 60mph flat out and the diesel gives about 70mpg. About £6-7000 new though

Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

To be fair, if you want to drive a car it would be more sensible to take driving lessons and pass your test, then get a car which is actually a proper car, not one which is a car but allowed to be driven with a bike license because it has three wheels or other such technicalities.

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Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hi

It used to be the old 3 wheelers were all that you could "drive" on a bike licence. The law has been relaxed to bring it more into line with Europe to allow you to drive the light weight cars (think they are classed as "Quadricycle" or somthing like that).

Fairly certain a Fiat 500 would be well over the maximun weight and power.

From an Aixam web site:-

Robby · Dirty Old Man Joined: 16 May 2002 Karma :

Just get your car licence. Then you can drive a car.

paul1977 · L Plate Warrior Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Karma :

In Germany these types of quadricycles are allowed to drive at maximum speed of 45 km/h, or 30 m.p.h. They conducted a crash test: a frontal collision between a (very small) Renault Twingo and a quadricycle (JDM Albizia), both cars driving 25 m.p.h. As you can see the results of this frontal crash were dramatic for the quadricycle:
https://www.adac.de/Tests/Crash_Tests/gkgk/default.asp?ComponentID=101479&SourcePageID=8645%230

Don’t you agree it would be plain suicide to drive this kind of car by a maximum speed up to 60 m.p.h. in the UK?

All the best,
Paul

Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :