Early 90s Licensing

[Tamsin]

Right,

I have a friend who reckons they automatically got a bike license when they passed their car test in 1993, by ticking the "motorcycle entitlement" box when they applied for their license...

is that likely to be correct? I thought even back then you needed to do a test...

[swampy]

[grr666]

Is your friend Jay from the inbetweeners?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ZiqWnGRoc
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[Tamsin]

Thank you for the responses that confirm that my friend is being a cockwomble

[trisers]

I passed my car test wayyyyyy back in 1978 and I seem to remember that automatically gave me provisional entitlement on a bike up to 250cc?

I can remember my disappointment when I moved house a few years later, got my license updated with the new address and I no longer had that entitlement...not that I had any intention of riding a bike at the time

Of course since then the entitlement only goes up to 125cc...

[Shaft]

[Tamsin]

if you have a post 97 car license you need to do a CBT to ride a 'ped too...

[Shaft]

[Tamsin]

thats the regs that apply to me you see

[Shaft]

[temeluchus]

A great deal of confusion lately as trikes have moved from the B licence to the A licence. The old part of the B1 entitlement that covered trikes has been done away with so car drivers who passed their tests do now get a full A entitlement, but solely for trikes (code 73 i think)
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[Rogerborg]

[Wednesday Biker]

It says I can provisionally drive a road roller.
Does that mean I have to display L plates

[Taught2BCauti...]

Back in the early 70's when you bought a provisional licence over the post office counter and computers weren't involved, a fellow apprentice managed to slip through the system.

He passed his test on a motorbike and posted off the paperwork, and his licence came back with everything on it!

Full entitlement for cars, HGV's, the works!

He never bothered to correct the mistake, and as far as I know, never passed any other test.

Myself, and several other apprentices passed our tests in cars at about the same time, but none of us were that lucky.

My father (and no doubt many others) was 'given' a driving licence when he was in the Army during WW2 only needing to pass an eyesight test - as far as I know, he never passed any sort of driving test.

Not really likely to happen these days, but provisional entitlements for classes of vehicles that you haven't passed a test for, usually have to be validated by some means - in the case of motorcycles, by means of a CBT certificate.
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[trisers]

It amused my kids when i told them the two hoops my grandfather had to jump through to get his license....

1. Walk to Post Office
2. Pay for license

Those were the days

[andyscooter]

my great auntie got her driving licence even though she had only ever driven a tractor

and she used to think it was funny as she crashed that
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