Bike test numbers drop

[Hokum]

https://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news--general-news/bike-test-numbers-plummet/25199.html

Just noticed this on Visordown.

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[wr6133]

I bet the amount of CBT's has gone up. The last 12-18 months the number of people riding on L plates seems to have hugely increased around my corner of Wiltshire.

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[Polarbear]

Or just riding 50cc scoots as cheap transport. Easier and cheaper to retake the CBT every 2 years than bother going for a full licence now.
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[Commuter_Tim]

I'm still on my CBT nearly 4 years on, will probably just redo it again when the time comes shortly.
The L plates piss me off, and I do intend to do my full test sooner or later, but cost... time-wise and financially, meh.
From what I gather, insurance doesn't really drop for doing the full test anyway, so why bother 'til I need a big bike?
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[krarkol]

I have a couple of friends younger than 19 that have done their tests under the new laws.

I personally can't see the point.

Their only reason was so they could take their L plates off and occasionally take a pillion.

But the cost of the test just isn't worth that, considering one of them is craving more power and has to do the tests all over again just so he can get a Honda Bro's he wants.

He's a sensible lad and I'd deem him capable of riding the Bro's at his current age which he would have been able to do under the old laws.

Like others have said, it sounds more like the EU lot doing it to show they are doing something. As I can't really see it being in the name of safety.

The whole safety aspect is thrown out the window as I have older friends who have done DAS and run out and got the most powerful thing they can insure yet can't ride for shit. Doesn't matter if they are more sensible, people make mistakes and the old working your way up to a bigger bike works a whole lot better. The current system just drags the old system on for longer and costs more money. It's just a faff now.
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[krarkol]

[Kickstart]

Hi

Difference is that very few kids do jump into supercars (they seem quite capable of making enough of a mess with a basic shopping car), but with bikes it has happened a hell of a lot more. Go into a 60mph bend at 100mph on a 1000 or 125 and you are equally stuffed, but the litre bike makes it easier, but more importantly makes it more obvious to those clearing up the mess.

All the best

Keith
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