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ian3mith
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PostPosted: 22:25 - 05 Feb 2014    Post subject: Can i ride on motorway with a A2 license? Reply with quote
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arry
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PostPosted: 22:25 - 05 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
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ian3mith
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PostPosted: 22:28 - 05 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
ok thanks, random question can i get hand wind deflectors for a aprila rs 125?
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PostPosted: 22:52 - 05 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
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matto
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PostPosted: 18:39 - 06 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think they're a valid option rather than heated grips, although they make look a little odd on an RS125.
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PostPosted: 19:58 - 06 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
they wont do anything, they are designed for offroad bikes to not snap levers when dropping.

heated grips, or muffs if your serious about keeping your hands warm. search the forum - tucano urbano are the generally recommended ones.
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Sable
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PostPosted: 13:14 - 07 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
johnnyarctic wrote:
they wont do anything, they are designed for offroad bikes to not snap levers when dropping.


a set of hand guards are great for keeping the wind chill out of your hands. my little cheap set of acerbis ones were worth their weight in plastic Thumbs Up


though muffs are far superior, and hand guards will look potato on an RS. buy muffs. if you are going to potato a sporty looking bike do it in the comfiest way possible Thumbs Up
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sabian92
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PostPosted: 15:41 - 07 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can ride on the motorway on any full bike licence (anything other than a provisional basically) unless it's a 50cc scooter.

I wouldn't recommend it on 125 though.
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Rogerborg
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PostPosted: 17:32 - 07 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
sabian92 wrote:
You can ride on the motorway on any full bike licence (anything other than a provisional basically) unless it's a 50cc scooter.

50cc is fine, scooter (or moped) is irrelevant. The prohibition is on motor bicycles and tricycles under 50cc.

Oh, and you have to be licensed for the bike that you're on.

I mention this more or less hypothetically, but if caught with an A2 license on a bike over 35kW on the motorway, then you're committing (at least) two different offences.

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sabian92
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PostPosted: 18:52 - 07 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
sabian92 wrote:
You can ride on the motorway on any full bike licence (anything other than a provisional basically) unless it's a 50cc scooter.

50cc is fine, scooter (or moped) is irrelevant. The prohibition is on motor bicycles and tricycles under 50cc.

Oh, and you have to be licensed for the bike that you're on.

I mention this more or less hypothetically, but if caught with an A2 license on a bike over 35kW on the motorway, then you're committing (at least) two different offences.

Maaaarvellous.


I thought the law specifically banned 50cc and under, or is it under 50cc (as in 49cc and below)?

Either way, you'd have be to be positively potato on so many levels to ride a 50cc anything on a motorway.

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Prohibited vehicles. Motorways MUST NOT be used by pedestrians, holders of provisional motorcycle or car licences, riders of motorcycles under 50 cc, cyclists, horse riders, certain slow-moving vehicles and those carrying oversized loads (except by special permission), agricultural vehicles, and powered wheelchairs/powered mobility scooters (see Rules 36 to 46 inclusive)
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I thought scooters were banned? Apparently not Laughing I reckon if you did it anyway the Police would arrive pretty sharpish and strongly suggest you get the fuck off their motorway because they don't want to scrape you up with a shovel.

One thing that does get on my tits though is that even though I've got a full car licence I can't ride on the motorway on a motorbike but I can drive on one in a car Rolling Eyes
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Rogerborg
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PostPosted: 20:29 - 07 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
sabian92 wrote:
I thought the law specifically banned 50cc and under, or is it under 50cc (as in 49cc and below)?


Highways Act 1980 Schedule 4 Class I = Heavy and light locomotives, motor tractors, heavy motor cars, motor cars and motor cycles whereof the cylinder capacity of the engine is not less than 50 cubic centimetres, and trailers drawn thereby, [...] so constructed as to be capable of attaining a speed of 25 miles per hour on the level under its own power, when unladen and not drawing a trailer.

If you can find a moped (twist and go or geared) that claims to be exactly 50cc, you can take it on a motorway. You can even tow a trailer, and you can do so at less than 25mph if it can make 25 without the trailer.

I'm saying you can, not that you should. Wink
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Sable
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PostPosted: 22:28 - 07 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
sabian92 wrote:
You can ride on the motorway on any full bike licence (anything other than a provisional basically) unless it's a 50cc scooter.

I wouldn't recommend it on 125 though.


Sit in the left lane on my 4 poke 11bhp 125 and never have an issue. a faster 4 stroke will easily keep up with truck lane traffic. also if he's riding an older 2 smoke RS and it is derestricted he will fly past the truck lane traffic Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 10:17 - 08 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
ive taken all my 125ccs on motorways

even the pcx with its 65mph top speed wasnt too bad
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PostPosted: 11:02 - 08 Feb 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
I took my second DT125LC on the M25 .. 75-80 mph. (indicated)
a hair raising experience even for a sunday. Pale
didn`t do it again. Tut Tut
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