Do CBT and get a 125 or...

McfcChris94 · Scooby Slapper Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Karma :

straight from CBT do lessons and do mod1 and mod2, without buying a 125??

would this be a good option or not, saving money ect, but losing a couple of months of riding?

Paris2 · Nearly there... Joined: 10 Apr 2011 Karma :

Do your CBT and see how you feel afterwards. If your confident and liking it ask the company about what DAS or A2 courses they do.
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McfcChris94 · Scooby Slapper Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Karma :

must add im 17 so would that be a factor

Ayrton · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Sep 2010 Karma :

Do cbt then get a bike and do your mod1 and 2 on that. You must remember you need a bike for the tests anyway, so it will save you some hastle.
It would probably be hard passing without much riding experiance anyway.

Teflon-Mike · tl;dr Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Karma :

Personally, I think it would probably be false ecconomy. I dont know what lessons or a course would be on a 125; my local school charge £175 for CBT and seven weeks of two hour lessons on your own bike, or I think it's £475, on a rental. They are a non-profit outfit and very very cheap, usually. But even so, costs £250 to use their bike, for 14 hours... just under £20 an hour. If you use a commercial school, you'll be looking at DAS prices and maybe £4-500 of costs effectively just to hire the bike, for at best, 24 hours of saddle time.

Buy a £1500 YBR125...... Spend maybe £500 insuring it...

You can have it a year; use it for your lessons, get as MUCH practice on it as you want or need between lessons, for basically petrol money, use it to tyake your tests on, and get your licence, and ride out the year till the Insurance is due to get your first years NCB....

What it cost you to insure, you would have spent on hire fees. So that's offset. You ought to be able to flog the bike for maybe £12-13oo, so its cost you £2-3oo in depreciation, maybe a couple of hundred in maintenence and repairs, plus petrol.

BUT you have had the use of the bike for a year, and believe me, a YBR is 'Cheap' motoring, compared to other stuff, so WITHOUT offsetting insurance against training, or anything you will STILL have saved money.

AND, if you DONT crack it straight away, and need more training, or dont pass first time, bike is there, you can, for as little money as it takes KEEP chipping away until you get it.

If you are hiring bikes, that gets expensive.

THIS is what 125's are for. Making learning 'cheap', but you have to spend money to save money, unfortunately... or you have to work hard and or be lucky.

So keep at it, keep saving, and a bike WILL turn up.
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HJM · Crazy Courier Joined: 15 Apr 2012 Karma :

you wont be saving money going from CBT to a restricted 4/5/6 day course, they average £550-600 ill included, you can buy a half decent bike for £550 and insurance on a provisional motorbike license for TPO is only £300 (Compared to the £2k for a car), if you keep the bike in good condition and get a good deal for the bike you will easily sell it back for what you paid for it.

Do a CBT - Buy a Jap 125 (Cg125/en125 if you got the money YBR125) - have 2 or so lessons (£15-20) each (if you really need it) - Theory and Mod1 can all be self tought 100's of video's on youtube going through mod1.

All the best, HJM Thumbs Up

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Edit, Tef has replied my answer is nothing compared to it. lol!

Rogerborg · nimbA Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Karma :

One consideration is that the cheapest underwriters for 125s seem to only cover up to 125s. If you get your own bike and go with one of them, then you may find that you have to just cancel the insurance, get back a pittance (or end up still owing them money if you're daft enough to go with a "pay monthly" policy), then have to take out a whole new policy on a larger bike with no NCD to use.

When you're pricing up policies on your (very) hypothetical 125, ask the broker if you'll be able to change the policy to a larger bike. Get it in writing. If you don't, well, I look forward to yet another Insurance Rant Thread in a few months time.

Whatever you do, get on with it. The clock is ticking on your opportunity to do it the easy way.
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