Fees!

[Rookie]

So I've booked my test.

Quick bit of back story:

I went to my first lesson on Friday, 2 hours. When I got there I was understandably nervous, as I've never ridden a geared bike before. Hopped on, he showed me round the stuff; not that I needed to know and we got going. First thing I noticed was that this was easy. Plus, it was incredibly fun. That's saying something, considering it was a 1996 GS125!

After I'd blatted about the yard for 20 minutes, he said 'You've taken like a duck to water, at this point I'm usually teaching people how not to stall.' I was quite chuffed. So we go out on the roads, fairly uneventful except for my tendancy to hit false neutrals, which I'd sorted by the end of the lesson.

After we were done, he said 'based on what I've seen today, I reckon you need 1 days training'. This came as a delightful surprise, I was thinking along the lines of 3 or 4.

Now here comes my problem; they're charging £23.40 an hour. That's pretty steep in my opinion, although I haven't asked any other places; I did the CBT with this guy and he's a great bloke so really I'd prefer to stick with him. Rides a godly VFR800 too.

Now I booked my test today, for the 22nd February, and booked a days training for the 17th, which is 6 hours. Total?

£240.40. What the hell?! I went through it with the woman on the phone, turns out they want £100 for the test. When I asked why (they said the fee was £60 for the test, I thought it was £40) and then that £20 was for insurance and £20 was for the instructor to wait at the test centre. Is this normal? Firstly, the £23.40 an hour rate, and secondly the charging for the instructor to wait and charging for insurance for the test?

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure as hell going to do it anyway, I just thought the whole thing was pretty damn steep. It's taken out most of my bike savings to date!

[Kwaks]

Bloody hell sounds steep to me. From what I remember I did cbt + 4 hours on 125 and 4 hours on 500 for £250. Applied and paid for my test myself and let instructor centre know. It then cost £43 to hire the bike and instructor for 2 hours(quick lesson followed by test).

Total costs excluding test fees was £293, but obviously had a lot more bike time.

[carvell]

[www.125power.com]

A one day cbt on a geared bike is £80 on your own bike up here, providing you pass in one day.....
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[ISLAND GIRL]

I paid £80 for the CBT (used their bike), £70 for set of lessons and £55 for A2 test
Could not afford to do DAS, think it was over £170 at the time
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[Andy C]

i paid £120 for a days traing then about £60 for test

days training was 9-4ish and then before test had 1/2 hour in the morning going over u-turns and all that

There charging to much i think

And well done for booking it
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[The Old Geeza]

[fuzz]

I paid £100 for test, 1 hour lesson before test and bike hire throughout. Lessons were £75 per half day (3 and a half hours) or £130 for a full day.

Just check that you're getting a refresher immediately before your test, and then the price seems right.
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[iCraig]

Eek to me thats alot!

Then again I did pass my test nearly 6 years ago now so with inflation sounds about right I reckon.

[phantomtek]

That is alot.

Mine cost £330 for 3 days and my test, we are talking 3 full days here. My instructor took two people on a day, and whilst one was doing the test he was doing training with the other, which is very efficient to me. £17 an hour round here.

Sounds bit steep to me Ginters

[Rookie]

Ho hum.

Put the deposit down on the course today, so no going back now! I expect I could have found another place which charged less, but I suppose the familiarty is somewhat comforting.

[Dazbo666]

Think I paid something like £500+ for my DAS
but that was theory, CBT, two 3 hour lessons on CG125, two 3 hour lessons on GS500, an hours pre-test lesson, the DAS test, and all the bike hire/fuel/instructors fees included.

It was a steep price to pay all in one go, but looking back, I think I got pretty good value, especially as the instructors were top notch IMO

Probably some of the most rewarding experiences, and some of the best fun I've ever had with me clothes on!! LOL

[Barney]

Yeah your prices sound about right, I did a just under a day and half of training, then my test, it came to abut £250! Extortion IMO but I wanted my full license so bad I was willing to pay.

Good luck
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[veeeffarr]

Heh, this is why I'm doing 33BHP

[Rob W]

My A2 licence cost me £360. That was 3 full days training and hire and insurance of the bike plus the cost of the test, then on the day of my test which was about 3.30pm I think, my instructor took me out all day from 7 in the morning, just me and him so that was pretty cool cos I didn't have to worry about him keeping an eye on someone else the whole time.

That was the cheapest I could find around here, the next cheapest was £580. You haven't got a bad deal there, just seems like a lot when you haven't got a licence yet, but when you pass it'll all be worth it .
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[RobB]

My CBT+DAS cost me just under £400.

£23.40 an hour doesn't seem that steep to me for an instructor. Bear in mind that during that hour he needs to cover wear and tear on the bikes, two lots of fuel, and various other overheads. Doesn't seem to me like he's making that much money.

At the end of it all, the enjoyment, independance and sense of achievement you will get from passing will be tough to put a price on.
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[Rookie]

Absolutely, that's why I sent off a cheque for it last night.

Toby I'm doing the A2, no other choice as I'm only 17.

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