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First to say, save the money for your test.
£121 and your done. 
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Spend it on some decent gear -
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Gotta be a nice set of handlebar tassles or maybe a set of neons to make you a bit more visible.... 
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Posted: 23:14 - 15 Feb 2012  Post subject: |
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Pinks sells his ass, and having piles don't help.  
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Oddly enough yes I am serious. Regardless of what job you have its not cost effective to have to continue to do a CBT. But hey ho. Like I said, your money, your choice. But given the choice myself, and I have been, just like many of us on here, we have chosen to pay out once and our saved 90 quid every 2 years has been put to much better things.
As for Covtwat's mention about me selling my ass. He's just jealous because he couldnt afford me as he has to pay his 90 quid every 2 years too because he cant be arsed to pass his test either. 
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| Posted: 23:21 - 15 Feb 2012 Post subject: |
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Correct - cbt due march - ish ! 
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| MrLarner wrote: | I dont need a bike licence, i live in London, and for anyone that knows london, you cant get any great use out of a bike in london, i simply want it for commuting back and forth to work and general use. |
| pinkyfloyd wrote: | So you would rather pay £90 every couple of years to do a CBT and run around on L plates with learner insurance than spend the guts of £100 to get through the test and never have to worry about a CBT every 2 years? |
The provisional entitlement endowed by a CBT is a LEARNER LICENCE.. its offered on the provision you use it to PRACTICE to do tests.
If you dont want a full licence that lets you ride a 'big-bike' there's no compunction to; its a FULL licence NOT a big-bike licence, you can still ride a tiddler on it if you want, though if you have to be peculiar, there is the A1 'light-bike' licence to ride a bike up to 125cc just without L-Plates, that may be endorsed with 'automatic only' if you REALLY cant muster the co-ordination required to paddle a gear-box, as you have suggested in another thread.
Though THAT alone would suggest to me that you do not have the basic competance to REALLY be 'safe' to be let loose on the roads on anything with more moving parts than a pair of scissors!
Let alone be allowed to wobble around for ever and a day exploiting the loop-hole of NOT proving you are REALLY a competant rider, pretending to be a'Learner' and forking out for repeat CBT's to keep the powers that be happy, rather than maning up to the tests and earing your fucking road space, on anything with an engine!
Perpetual L-Platers are, to my mind STUPID, to be wasting money, living with self imposed restrictions, putting themselves and others at risk, riding with utterly unproven competance, trying to AVOID spending £121.50 and a couple of hours of thier life earning their place on the road like every other fucking motorised road user has to... and I don't give a shit how many fucking years experience you have on a push bike or hiding behind the steering wheel of a tin box.
If you cant ride a fucking motorbike; and you cant pass the fucking test; get a fucking push bike...
Or use the LEARNER LICENCE for what it is there for LEARNING and passing the test.
Fuck all to do with ecconomics, though as said, every financial incentive is offered; everything to do with respect; your self respect; your respect of other road users and the respect we MIGHT offer you.
I have no problem with Learner Riders on L's ..... but you are NOT a LEARNER.... you are, an egocentric unqualified HAZARD, and done FUCK ALL to earn any respect from me, for what you are about.
Have a nice life...
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Also consider the cost of insurance, riding with only a CBT classes you as a provisional rider. Insurance companies consider you (& me as I've not got a full licence yet) as high risk and charge us accordingly for insurance. Passing the test opens up alot more choice, cheaper insurance & even bigger machines can return great economy figures around town. |
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Bolt on shit?
Hand guards, gold levers, weird shaped mirrors, an alarm that plays mp3's, performance exhaust/air filter, flamer kit, stickerz.
C'mon. Its a fecking DNA. Its still got a flappy moped back end and its still a ped. No amount of shits gonna make you look cool. Everyone knows its pretending to be a sportsbike. F*cking hate em!
Seen a 50/50 mix in london of scoots and beat up 500's with huge boxes on em - so a scoot aint always the quickest way of getting about 
Ironicly ive seen three crashes in london where someone on a ped got hit by something and nothing involving a "big bike" courier which says a fair bit for saftey i suppose.
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| _Iain_ wrote: | Bolt on shit?
Hand guards, gold levers, weird shaped mirrors, an alarm that plays mp3's, performance exhaust/air filter, flamer kit, stickerz.
C'mon. Its a fecking DNA. Its still got a flappy moped back end and its still a ped. No amount of shits gonna make you look cool. Everyone knows its pretending to be a sportsbike. F*cking hate em!
Seen a 50/50 mix in london of scoots and beat up 500's with huge boxes on em - so a scoot aint always the quickest way of getting about
Ironicly ive seen three crashes in london where someone on a ped got hit by something and nothing involving a "big bike" courier which says a fair bit for saftey i suppose. |
Err... user name looks familiar.... are you the same _Ian_ that I had a little ding dong with a while back, suggesting that the best tool for the job of couriering, for comfort, safety, and cost was a 500 commuter twin? 
Tending to agree with you though on the bolt on bits..... though i DID see a Gilera DNA outside ASDA once that HAD been customised and REASONABLY tastefuly....
Lad that owned it was 16, turned out to be the 50cc version, and he explained that he hadn't been able to afford a 'geared' 50, hated the idea of a 'ped' and because they are SO pug-ugly had picked up this DNA 'Cheap' and 'Done it Up'.....
(ASDA... the new nationaly franchised Bike-Meet & Greet!  )
He'd paid particular attention to the important stuff first, like tyres and brakes, and suspension, but had then removed mangled headlamp nacelle and and 'adapted' something of a dirt bike to fit, then de-stickered the thing, and repainted it, quite nicely, and trimmed the seat to match.
Heartening to come accross, actually... there IS hope in modern 'yoof'!
Back to ASDA... amazing how 'people' usually with Japanese 4x4's German 'executive saloons' or French People Carriers, will furtive wheel thier trolleys accross the car-park, looking paranoid and worried, and avoiding eye-contact with any other shopper....
Park a bludy BIKE outside, and you cant get the ruddy LOCK on the thing, being pestered by kids wanting to know how fast it is; old duffers telling you about 'when they were a lad' and recounting their Glory Days on an RD125!
Oh yeah! and Perpetual L-Plate prats on twist& go's!
Was spotted and herangued by one, a while back, offering me the benefit of his 'many years of experience', as I tried to put the locks on the CB125, before popping in for some bananas and a tub of ice cream to shut the kids up for a bit!
> Aparently I was a 'fool' for riding a 'geared' 125, because his Kymco was 'just as fast' and 'easier to ride.
> And I was a bit 'paranoid' sticking so many locks on it; 'No-One' will want to 'nick THAT old thing' he informed me... Fact that some-one HAD tried to nick it, and before I'd even finished building the bludy thing, was WHY I was sticking so many locks on it!
> And THEN proceeded to tell me I REALLY ought to get some L-Plates on it, because the police are a BIT HOT on the matter, apparently!
> He ALSO suggested, that I needn't bother taking my tests.... and If I didn't really want to re-take my CBT when it expired, not to bother, 'no-one ever checks anyway', and HE KNEW, because he'd been riding EIGHT YEARS on L-Plates and had given up repeating CBT after the third one, because NO-ONE had ever asked to see his certificate, and he'd 'done it all before anyway'!
I REALLY think he must have needed his eyes testing..... I would have thought that 'INSTRUCTOR', admittedly a little faded, written accross the front of my Hi-Vis MIGHT have given him cause to question the 'level' of his 'advice'
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Correct teabag -
he should of also added ..
No need for the poxy ghey workmans bib, no fucker takes a blind bit of notice of them nowadays.
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I think ours came out ok, considering we just grabbed random bits lying around for it:
https://www.swaffs.co.uk/image/16063/Moped_Mayhem_-_BMCRC_Lydden_Hill_January_2007.jpg
I haven't lived in London, but have ridden bikes in London enough; I'd certainly be getting the full licence, especially if I had cash to splash (so not limited by very cheap to run bikes.)
As for the rest - some bar muffs to keep your hands warm.
A top box to keep more stuff in (though the fake-tank storage isn't too bad.) |
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| MrLarner wrote: | I dont need a bike licence, i live in London |
Just re-read with a different accent!
Judging by the standards of driving I saw last time I was in our nations capitol, that MAY WELL be true!
I thought Coventry Drivers were pretty poor.... I actually gave a bus driver near aopoplexy once.... I USED my indicators.... dont think he has ever seen a blinking yellow light before! Probably wondered if my little silver Civic was a cunningly disguised space ship from another planet!
Despite having not had anything remotely like an 'automotive industry' in the city for the best part of two decades, there seems to remain an attitude in the town of the ilk; "Look; DONT try and tell me how to drive a car. WE know ALL there is to KNOW about cars; we MAKE the ruddy things..... so the indicator probably wont work ANYWAY!"
But LONDON?!?!
Yes, I CAN believe that its residents DONT believe they need a Driving Licence!
"Why do I need a DRIVING licence, eh? Never gonna DRYVE 'nee-wez ameye! Just gonna 'manouver' out of one parking space, into a moving parking space, then into anuva, ineye? MANOOVERING lysunS, yeah! Thaz all we neyd, innit!"
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Teflon-Mike you have got some serious issues and need to get out a bit more, I asked a simple question and expected some simple answers.
and then you pop up and start ranting away like anyone gives a fu*k where you have been on your bike/car and what problems you have had.
it really was a simple question. and if it bothered anyone in any way, then im sorry.
but im new to motorbikes, in my younger days i rode 50cc and 125cc bikes all the time, its not that i cant ride them, its that im not to clued up on licensing ect ect. and as you know, living in the busy London, it makes sence for me to get a bike instead of a car.
I've already worked out that doing a cbt followed by a motorbike test will save me money and stop me doing a cbt every 2 years, but what else is there to know?
is there a disadvantage in buying a new bike?
i've read alot that they are better once their worn in.
i've also been reading you can get de-restrict them which from what i read, speeds them up slightly due to them struggling between 6000 and 8000 rpm.
im just here to gain some info. if i bothered anyone in the slightest then im sorry, but remember...
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