Motorbike vs Car Test?

[adam277]

Which one did you find harder?
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[lukamon]

car, no contest.

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[Fisty]

They were both easy. But I had the old style bike test where you were followed around for 45 minutes. None of this mod 1/2 crap.
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[Tungtvann]

Car, only because I did that 7 years ago and had less experience on the road in general.

[arry]

Bike test harder

I've always been more confident in a car than on a bike

[BrownTrousers]

Interesting question. I think they are actually pretty comparable..

Hazard perception & theory test are effectively the same
Mod 1 is similar to the scripted manoeuvres in the car test (3 pt turn etc )
The rest of car test is like mod 2.

I passed both first time; had more lessons for the car test (10 years ago) but much more road experience by the time I took bike test (last month).

If I had to pick one, I'd say bike test is harder because mod1 manoeuvres are easier to mess up than the car ones and also, you get to practice more in a car without paying for lessons so can be more prepared.
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[N cee thirty]

Did the car test last week and passed first time so i would say the bike tests are harder, alot more scrutinised for the things you do like emergency stop etc

I probably wouldn't say harder, just more of a ball ache to pass anyway.
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[Irn-Bru]

The big difference between car and bike is you can very easily ride about on a 125 on l-plates and gain experience whereas a car it's much more difficult borrow someone elses (or buy one if you're rich) and get someone to sit in the passenger seat with you etc. proper faff on. Car test was harder for me, took me ages to suss it all out but bike was much easier since I had been messing about on L plates for over a year.
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[i.p.phrealy]

Failed my car test first time round, passed my bike tests first time.
So car was harder for me.
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[i.p.phrealy]

Failed my car test first time round, passed my bike tests first time.
So car was harder for me.
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[Fisty]

Also inb4 teffers 15000000 word essay on nothing relevant to this thread.
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[j00pY]

I passed my bike test (in 1999) after having a CBT and riding by myself with a book for a few months. The theory test had just come in and I think you had to get 16/25 to pass. It took me 2 attempts to pass my bike test as I locked the rear up on the emergency stop on the first test.

I decided to take my car test 3 years later. It was easy to transfer the road-craft learnt from biking to the car and all you actually had to do was learn to drive the car. At my test, once the examiner found out I was a biker, he just spoke about bikes and unless I made a terrible mistake I couldn't fail! He gave me 1 minor and was telling me I passed about a mile away from the test center

Today it sound like the bike test is much harder than the car test. I'd hate to have to go through the 2 part system and the hazard perception test sounds like a joke. If you are a biker, almost anything happening in front is a hazard.

[Clutchy]

Car test was harder, just based upon maneuvers like parallel parking etc

As I passed my bike test before, the car felt so big and felt as though I wasn't really in control, all fine now.


Passed both car and bike first time bike in 2012 car in 2013.


However I had lessons for a car and not for my bike so...
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[pinkyfloyd]

Dont know, havent done a car one. But there are elements of a car one that is unfair in comparison to the bike test.

Turning into a junction, clipping the central separation line is a minor in the car test. Its a fail on the bike test. Lane discipline on a roundabout, minor on a car test, fail on a bike test (Unless you do a lifesaver and then its down to the examiners discretion).

There are a few more and when we asked an examiner the only answer he could give were bikers were more vulnerable.
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[gavbriggs]

I passed the car test over 20 years ago! I had been driving(off the public roads) since around 13 years old and passed first time at 17. I had also been riding bike since I was a kid too. I really thnk it helps calm nerves and allows you to concentrate more on the road if you can already control the machine.

Since leaving school I have mainly drove machines from fork lifts to tractors to excavators etc etc and had regular testing on them so the actual test situation doesn't worry me very much. Failing of course is annoying but I avoid that and passed my bike tests first time too.

I think preparation is the key both academically and practically in all tests!, prepare well and you will succeed

[J.M.]

Found the bike test easiest, as I find riding a bike a lot easier than driving a car.
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[sabian92]

Car, but only because I was far more inexperienced on the roads.

[LaurenceR46]

1st part of the bike test was harder for me 2nd part was very easy as I had road sense already from a car license.

Now I have passed, I put my feet down when doing slow stuff thank you, much safer that way! The amount of people that dropped there bike from not being able to put their feet down on the silly stuff...
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[waffles]

They were both fairly similar for me but there were way more hoops to jump through for the bike. I did my car test first and had a good 10 years road experience before bikes so it was getting through all of the requirements during my holiday time that was more stressful than actually riding on the road.
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[Moxey]

Just passed my car test at the end of March (being delayed in doing it after my last attempt over a year ago resulted in me losing my prov car & full bike license for medical reasons). Used a different driving instructor this time who taught more like a bike instructor (he had ridden bikes so understood some of my habits such as going for gaps etc), found it a lot easier than the bike and even driving a car in general I find a lot easier.

The thing that made bike test seem easier at the time and more viable when I did it was the unsupervised L plating and been able to do the test without an instructor or lessons, not as easy to do that with a car.
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[krarkol]

I didnt find either hard really, pretty much pissed them both.

I thought car was going to be more nerve-racking due to the examiner being there watching your every move. In the end I didn't really give a shit compared to the bike one. I guess the bike test just meant more to me so I was more nervous.

I'd probably have to say car though, due to the fact I did have to get lessons before I'd be good enough to pass where the bike I just went for it.

Car was different in the fact that I had to do set routines for stuff, whereas the bike I just did what I wanted aslong as I followed the rules of the road and was safe
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[kawakid]

The bike test when I did mine about 10 years back.

Was not too difficult to be honest.

The instructor followed in a car. All he can judge on is road position/following traffic laws and doing your shoulder checks.

For all he knew, I could be in the wrong gear, the engine stuttering/ slipping the clutch in as I went down hill.

When I did the car test I had the examiner and his regional supervisor in the car.
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[kawakid]

The bike test when I did mine about 10 years back.

Was not too difficult to be honest.

The instructor followed in a car. All he can judge on is road position/following traffic laws and doing your shoulder checks.

For all he knew, I could be in the wrong gear, the engine stuttering/ slipping the clutch in as I went down hill.

When I did the car test I had the examiner and his regional supervisor in the car.
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