How many attempts did your cbt take?

[nathandenniso...]

Just wondering as I am doing mine and have no idea about pass rates etc, thanks.

[arry]

You'll be ok. Just read up on highway code before you go and relax, listen to what the instructor tells you.

If they're good instructors they'll make sure you get through on the day by spending a bit longer with you one to one

[Bubbs]

CBT is not a test mate it's just training. Compulsory Bike Training. You would have to be pretty terrible to fail it.
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[nathandenniso...]

thanks, got my full drivers license so should be all good

[Nai]

Only just passed myself, first time though 14 years cycling 40 mile a day i could not get used to the position / feel of the moped i did my CBT on. Felt better the next week when i did a geared lesson like thing on a Honda CG. Felt more right to.... Hmm.... Still cant think of another way to say this.... Felt more right having something between the legs.... Moped just felt to odd to me.

2 people failed the day i was there, one had no road experience but was a good motorcyclist. He got to close to the traffic in front to many times when on the road. Another guy i was stuck with all day couldn't speak a damned word of English.

[Bubbs]

[deanoet]

I voted passed first time (with experience)
No bike experience though. 10 years of driving though

I can see it being a hard day if you are learning how the road works as well as how to control the bike.
At least with road experience you only need to learn how the bike works.
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[waffles]

I passed first time with no experience unless you count the boyfriend letting me have a go on his Bandit in a carpark. Uphill and gravelly, it wasnt long before I dropped it on my leg and had a little cry....

There were three other people doing their CBT's with me, two were told to go home before we went out on the road and the other was having his third attempt.

Its pretty straightforward, but as someone has already mentioned before you do need to read the highway code because you will get asked some questions on it before you head out on the roads.
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Current rides Suzuki GSXR 600, Honda MSX125

[Ichy]

You have to be pretty bad to not get through the CBT.

Actually the truth is that the instructor has to be pretty bad to not get you through the CBT. Unless you feel that you are really struggling the idea of coming back is just a money generator.

[FURBAR]

I was great, 2pm finish, the bloke with me, should not only have been failed on his CBT 2 year retake, but should play an obese forest gump in the sequel ...
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[nathandenniso...]

I know all my road stuff anyway after passing my full car test in March, what sort of questions were they?

[Nai]

Real basics of the highway code, a few road signs, a few road situations, the eye test thing (reading a plate at 20ft). Even the non English speaker got them in my group.

[richrock]

It was easy once I'd got the hang of clutch/gears, which I thought would be the hard part. Instructors were nice, just wish the test ride on the road was much longer

Passed first time, never been on a motorbike, the instructor (ex police biker) thought I was a complete natural....
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[N cee thirty]

a guy got lost on my cbt and still passed,and the guy that came back for the next day had to because when he went round a corner and ended up on the pavement
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[cloric_tzr]

passed mine 1st time no probs but i did already know how to ride. a gyal and a guy where there on the same day never riden b4. by the end of the day the girl was better than the other bloke. all depends on where you go and how much they take pride in instructing you. i ended up riding round the car park for 1/2 messig about while he got the other 2 up to speed with pulling off n tht. then i went out on the road with a seperate instructor 1 on 1 which was cool no waiting round for them it gave him the chance to give me some very usful tip on shuting out traffic and holding possition which he would not have had time to do if there was another person
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[Ichy]

[Fortuna]

The CBT is not pass or fail.
It's training you undertake, of which you are awarded a certificate at the end of to say you did it.

[Ingah]

[metalangel]

First time, but only just. Just couldn't get my head around the technique of putting it on the centre stand. Dropped it on my foot when they we were wheeling them around and were told to squeeze the front brake with the bars turned to demonstrate what would happen.

Gradually got to grips with riding it around but then after lunch the time came to go on the road. It was a cold, miserable, pissing down with rain day in October. Not the best conditions for doing something like this for the first time ever, and after a terrifying long ride with us getting lost, missing turns, lagging behind, me flooding the pathetic bike's engine trying to get it up a gentle slope... we stopped for a fag break.

The instructor said I looked 'shellshocked'. I felt like I was. Not to mention soaking wet and cold.

His radio then failed so we had to go the rest of the way with him overtaking us and guiding us through each roundabout or junction, and it was then that I started to enjoy it a bit more - just cruising along, the weather clearing up slightly, felt a bit better.

While I passed, he did say I should think about whether I really wanted to continuing biking or not as I hadn't seemed to have enjoyed myself!
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[sweetleaf]

I did my yesterday - on a geared bike of course. To be honest I had expected them to tell me to come back another time for the practical / road bit as I thought my bike control was crap ... but I did the road bit (was shitting myself).

And despite managing to drop the bike at a junction (not enough throttle and it was uphill - and I have a lovely scrape up my leg to show for it) they 'passed' me

I was OK on the road - at least as good as the other guy who was with me, but I could see that I'm far from being a safe rider. Still, that really only comes with experience. Now just waiting for the sodding bike to arrive. I think if we'd known that it would take this long to come, we would have bought second hand!

One of the kids on the course pulled out in front of a HGV lorry. Instructor thought he was going to be flattened, but he somehow managed to survive. He still got his cert.

[Irn-Bru]

Lucky for me I did my CBT with a guy who was renewing his for the third time so it was just a ride out Had experience with the car, as well as driving about on my grandads land on some knackered Suzuki 125 bike (no idea what it was) with only one brake Only thing I did bad on was I kept getting stuck in neutral which was embarrassing more than anything... cut a few roundabouts up and wasn't so good at the emergency stop. Passed my test a year later
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[yuri2085]

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The only experience I'd had on a vehicle before my CBT was a push bike. They only had scooters, which was fine for me at the time. Theory went easy enough, the guy told us about "some kid a few weeks back who didn't know shit. Nearly killed himself by not giving way on a busy roundabout". That kid was one of my mates who rides like a prick 24/7, we don't expect him to be around much longer

Anyway, the trainer was a complete wanker who shouted and swore for everything. Bearing in mind two of the girls on their CBT were deaf and having trouble hearing where to change gear, and the other guy and myself had never ridden a motorbike/scooter before...

After all of that, the guy said I rode well, signed my paper and told me to "bugger orf".

[locked]

passed first time with no riding expericene but have been driving for 7 years so i knew the highway code.

Once you get use to the gears its a doddle!
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[waffles]