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It really depends on your instructor. My first lesson was a two hour lesson, and he gave me some handouts, showing blind spots, gears, turning theory, stopping distances and other helpful titbits and then proceeded to teach me to drive.
You'll start somewhere quiet, industrial estate maybe. He'll explain the controls, and where you need to look, etc. Then you'll be starting and stopping into you're comfortable doing so.
After that it really depends on what your skill level is. I took 4months to learn and pass my test. I was doing two hours a week normally, but did a lot of four hour weeks. Not sure how many hours I spent at it in total, but my instructor was a really good guy, very helpful.
All was worthless in the end though, as insurance is stupidly high for me! Good Luck. ____________________ Ted : "Maybe he's agoraphobic."
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Skudd wrote: | Kids of today don't do any of that and have no road sense what so ever. Roads are busy now, granted, but most kids the first time they have any dealings with roads and having to deal with others is when they get their first driving lesson. | Indeed, as a kid I was taught to 'stop, look, listen' and always given a stern talking to for approaching a road and ignoring that advice, last week I know a kid who's 10 and went to run obliviously across one of the busiest roads in the area; I had to pull her back from the kerb edge because i dont think any driver traveling more than 10mph could stop in an instant yet it would be their fault, at least socially.
I avoided big companies, I went with "Bill Plant" first for the 6@£60 deal but after 5 I still wasn't driving main roads so when I requested to be tried he dodged it, so I cancelled and went with a better one (taught a few in my family and does ADI courses), passed shortly after. Only cost £2 extra per lesson compared to going rate. ____________________ Roger wrote: Women don't get damp for clingy puppies. Get some better happy pills, hit the gym & buy a medallion the size of a dinner plate. Job done |
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20 Lessons when i was 18. Got my First Car a Vauxhall Nova.
£1100 to insure, then give up the cars after two years for bikes.
Now I'm 26 and they want £1500 insurance on a 900cc Cinquecento.
I'd rather get wet on the bike. ____________________ JACK, MISS YOU LOADS YOU LEGEND. |
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6 one hour lessons. Plus about 8 hours of practice in my old Fiat with my Mum as ballast.
Not to detract from my obvious natural gift for motoring , but I had been biking for 8 years by then so knew the roadcraft & highway code. |
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cheers guys, well it went well, instructor took me to a quiet street, showed me the controls how it all works etc, swapped seats and got me to pull away, then that was it about hour and a half of driving around the local area out to the back roads for a while and back and around the town,
Instructor said he was happy with all me steering clutch n that, said very god but dont know if they say that all the time ?
Next wednesday again another 2 hours,
Main problem i have is relising how bigger the car is than the bike
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rockers wrote: | cheers guys, well it went well, instructor took me to a quiet street, showed me the controls how it all works etc, swapped seats and got me to pull away, then that was it about hour and a half of driving around the local area out to the back roads for a while and back and around the town,
Instructor said he was happy with all me steering clutch n that, said very god but dont know if they say that all the time ?
Next wednesday again another 2 hours,
Main problem i have is relising how bigger the car is than the bike
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He was probably being honest, a good instructor would be quick to tell you where you're going wrong, after my shambles of a first lesson in clutch control, it sounds like you did well ____________________ Fzr-600 1999 |
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It's all down to each individual, you can't say how many hours everyone needs.
I paid for 20 upfront because that meant I got a 20% discount on a block booking.
When I was 16 (August 31st birthday, youngest in the class, so everyone else was driving before the summer holidays, I had to wait until the end) I went with my dad to an off-road site in Sheffield which they used for truck driving lessons and did a few hours there getting used to clutch control and changing gear, stopping and starting etc... so that I had some experience when I got to my first lesson.
After my 2nd lesson I went out with my dad, and we'd do about 5 hours a week driving in the evenings and weekends, to every 1 or 2 hour lesson I had.
Ended up passing first time after 9 weeks and 17 lessons. Including using an hour for the test, I had 2 hours pre-paid lessons left, so used them towards my Pass Plus, which is 5 hours. |
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I've been riding 3 years now and I've just started driving lessons as well.
My first lesson was a free 2 hours and we went to Tesco's car park, learnt the controls, went round the car park a few times learning the steering and did some reversing as well. After that it was about an hour on the road and has been on the road ever since doing one or two test manoeuvres a lesson. I've had 8 hours in total and he says I should start to look to book my test.
Guess it's down to how confident you are and your instructor. I've heard some instructors don't take you out of car parks for the first ten hours but my girlfriend learnt through the AA so you should all right.
Good luck ____________________ CBT - 04/04/2009 Mod 1 - 26/07/10 Mod 2 - 02/11/10
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You'll have no bother with your bike experience. I did a week (20 hour) intensive with test at the end 18 months ago. Once you get the hang of controlling the car it's just road craft, and I assume you've got a grip of that ____________________ Bikes: GZ125>CBR125>Yamaha MT03>Triumph Sprint ST 955i
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Oh and as I always bought the boys there bikes she figures I owe her £1500 towards her first car ____________________ I have become comfortably numb
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Skudd, much you charge a lesson and where are you from? How tall ate you anyway? Thanks. ____________________ Hit the G spot. |
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Are you taller than leonardo dicaprio?
Also I didn't think driving instructors would be affected that much, but I guess people can't afford cars. ____________________ Hit the G spot. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 12 years, 71 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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