Can you take test on a 125 after Jan19th (over 24 yrs old)

[Ribenapigeon]

i've just read an article on the tests post Jan 19th in a magazine and it seems to suggest that after Jan 19th you have to take the test on a bigger bike. So I'm confused as I thought after Jan 19th you could take the test on a 125 just you can't ride anything bigger or more powerful without doing another test on a bigger bike.

[U_W v2.0]

you can, but thats all you'll be able to ride without further tests.

if you want a bigger bike after jan 19th, do them on a bigger bike.
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[Alpha-9]

gotta do tests on a 125
ride for 2 years or be over 19
then do tests on a 400
as far as I know

Which sounds usually_wrong to me
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[U_W v2.0]

alpha, everything i have read suggests you can take the tests on any catagory size bike as long as your old enough.

so if your over 24 you can take the biggest bike test without having to take the smaller ones first.
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[Alpha-9]

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[Rogerborg]

You can still take the tests on a 125, it's just that nobody will bother because it doesn't get you on a bigger bike, and there's "direct access" to the A2 category at 19 regardless of whether you got A1 or not.

A (aka A3) is direct access at 24 or 2 years after passing A2 i.e. a minimum of 21. But nobody will be able to go that progressive route until 2015 (i.e. 2 years after the A2 license becomes available).

It's going to be a lean couple of years for riding schools and no mistake.
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[Ribenapigeon]

If I screw up and don't pass my test (on a 125) before Jan 19th then I'm going to have to save my pennies and pay a training school to do DAS, so not so lean times for them. I would have thpught the new rules would mean more business for schools.

[Alpha-9]

[Ribenapigeon]

45 but I'm planning on being 44 next year

[U_W v2.0]

[Alpha-9]

[TheSmiler]

[Val]

[Rogerborg]

[Ribenapigeon]

Rogerborg, I guess your right I'm sure a lot of younger riders will be put off but not older riders like me. Will be interesting to see if the cost of courses goes up next year as well.

[Bene]

What's the latest on this?

If you take a test on a 125 is that all you can ride?

(Don't get me wrong at this stage I would be more than happy with any bike.)

[Ribenapigeon]

[Val]

[Bene]

That's rubbish. So that means you are forced to pay for training on a bigger bike unless you think you can hop off a 125 onto a bigger bike straight into the test. I suppose that if you are happy riding a bike between 125-600 there is nothing for that.

[Val]

[Rogerborg]

It does make sense to give a license for the category of bike that you pass your test on. Where it falls apart is that the UK makes such a whopping big 3-part gold-plated deal out of giving out those licenses, while in a bizarrely schizoid way still allowing soLo riding on 125s.

Contrast with the happy sunny Eurocountries where you can still get a license just by riding around the block without dropping the fag from your mouth, regardless of what it says in some Directive.

MCN are just after reporting that some big training school chain (sorry, don't recall which one) have had no A2 candidates since the new test kicked in, and I'll go ahead and assume no A1s either. So that's nobody under 24. None. At all.
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[Bene]

[Val]

[Rogerborg]

It makes sense if you're going to sub-categorise bikes in the first place.

There is a real world argument for doing that. Sure, you could buy (and insure) that 800bhp Ferrari. Go ahead, I'll wait.