Best way to get an A2 licence without over paying?

[ColdKill]

Hey,

So I've been riding my 125 enduro for almost two years now, and used to do around 30 miles a day. My CBT will run out this year, and If I could afford it I would rather just get my A2 to have the possibility of getting a bigger bike in the future, but atm I really can't justify spending around £400 on a A2 course...

I've also heard that a full course is only useful is you have little experience, and since I've been riding for almost two years, all year round so I don't think I fall into that category.

So has anyone heard of anyone else just paying for a few hours training then doing the MOD 1 & 2 tests without paying for a full course? Would that even be possible?

Are the tests really that difficult?


EDIT: I'll add that the only reason I'm struggling to justify the £400 is only because I'm currently still a student working part time. £400 is just under a full months wages for me, then I'd have test fees on top of it.

[SQL]

Nearer £700 for A2

[DRZ4Hunned]

£400 is more than half what I payed. (That's including a MOD 1 retake and another CBT Certificate)

[iginge]

Prices depend on where you live and what schools are around you.

£400 is not a unreasonable price for the A2 license, this is my figure providing I pass first time on both tests if going through a training school.

Unless you're going to get a A2 test bike, insure it etc. and somehow get it to the test centre and pass both modules without any training then the £400 price tag is the only option.

If you can't justify £400 for the A2 license then maybe just take the Module 1 / 2 on you're 125cc and get an A1 license for now (so you've got a full license) and then wait until your 24 to upgrade to the A?

Either way you have to decide if the A2 license is worth it as the upgrade will be available after two years.

[SQL]

£400 is cheap, do it.

[ColdKill]

[iginge]

Training schools realise the amount of money that can be made from license's and therefore will attempt to get you to commit to expensive courses.

I finally found a company that do the following

1 Day training = £150 and then do the test at the end of the same day (test fee not included).

The reason the courses are expensive is because they include bike hire, equipment hire and sometimes use the actual test ground as well as training on the morning of the test, different companies do it different ways.

When I got the above quote in comparison to £170 for a days training alone from a school up the road, I'd rather waste the petrol than a huge sum of money.

[SQL]

[iginge]

[ColdKill]

[DRZ4Hunned]

[SQL]

[iginge]

^ As above.

Module 1 & 2 can be located at different sites as opposed to a CBT witch is done by one training school on a local land or car park and that's all sorted.

Training for the above modules can be done in the same way as the CBT with a mock layout of the official test site on a local piece of land or car park and then driven to the official test site.

It depends on what training school you go with and where they do there training, again another question to put to individual schools, no one can give you these answers but them.

Either way £400 for training alone (although not a bad quote at all) try shopping around, it paid of for me (with a dummy quote at least), I only currently have a CBT just to be clear.

+ You have done and passed your theory already?

[Az]

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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

I know three schools - and the blokes that own and run them live in very modest houses.

I felt like I was being mugged at the time, but honestly, in retrospect I don't think there's a lot of money in it. Which isn't to suggest that there aren't guys out there who're ripping people off. However...
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[MaybeGuy]

Why is it so much now?

I paid like 300 for a 3 day course, which included 2 attempts at the test (didn't get refunded for the unused second attempt though).
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[pinkyfloyd]

People always complain at forking out a big sum of money to get a DAS course through a school.

Our school charges £580 for a 3 day DAS which includes test fees, bike hire, in fact the only thing not included is lunch money. For that you get 2 full days training prior to module 1 which normally is scheduled in for Saturday and Sunday. We start at around 9am and finish between 3 and 4pm with the test on the Monday. Most schools schedule their training with a test as part of day 2 (eg 1 and a half days training and mod 1 at the end of day 2.) Our day 3 is usually the day before module 2. So with us you get 3 days training and extra for mod 1 and mod 2 (we also throw in an extra hour or 2 if needed before tests.)

So lets break that down. Test fee's are almost £100. You get a minimum of 18 hours training plusbike hire to mod 1 which is at lest an hour, mod 2 at least 2 hours. So it works out you are hiring the bike and instructor for at least 21 hours. That works out at under £23 an hour after test fee's are taken into account. That is to get you up to test standard.

Compare that to the national average in cars to get you to test standard:

[wr6133]

[Beehive Bedlam]

I did it the cheapest possible way:

Conversion lesson (mandatory).

MOD 1 training (Recommended to get used to the weight of the bike).

MOD 1 test + bike hire.

MOD 2 test + bike hire.

£350 - £400 no matter where you go.

[Ste]

If you got caught without a license or insurance, what are the chances of the fine / fixed penalty bribe being cheaper than the cost of riding / driving legally?