test riding a bike in kent?

[Pol Anorl]

Any ideas where i can test ride a couple of bikes in the south east area?

only 20, 21 in october i can wait till then.

Looked into honda on the a2 their website says 25 minimum age -.-

Wanting to try a cbr600f (maybe the rr aswell) + varadero/transalp


inb4 people take the piss because i want a bike on finance as im fed up with riding a pos and need to fill a massive hole in my life
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[_matt]

I dunno how it is in Kent, but in Staffordshire:

Everywhere i've tried want's:

A) Your full licence in their hand before you ride off
B) You to be at least 24+
C) Have held the full licence for more than 2 years

so yeh, nobody wants to let me test-ride their 125 Vandero despite the 535 im on now or 4 years riding experience. Too much of a risk i guess
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[Pol Anorl]

[_matt]

Yeh it's a right pain tbh man.
This is why i settled on a 1990 535 for £500 instead of a 2year old Dragstar 750, 'cos nowhere will let you ride in advance.

I can sort of understand why, but the chances of you binning it on 10 min test ride is pretty unlikely
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[Pol Anorl]

Ye i see the logic but £500 excess aswell, i was allowed on a £4000 bike for a week with £500 excess from insurance company as a hire bike, why not a £7000 bike for 10-15 minutes, 5 minutes of that would be on a dual carriageway anyway.
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[P.]

Laguna in Maidstone have let me test ride many bikes.. nice guys.

As long as you present your licence. Ask to speak to Chris when you get there, he is a sound guy.

[waffles]

Similarly Lagunas in Ashford (the performance one) let me test ride my gixer on a brand new licence, they told me to come back in a couple of hours and "go have fun". I didn't need to hand over my licence but they did ask me to sign their insurance docs that said I was liable for £1000 excess should I bin it.
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Current rides Suzuki GSXR 600, Honda MSX125

[Pol Anorl]

Thanks guys ill see what they have to offer
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