Car license with bike experience

[Hasujek]

Cold days are starting and want to spare the bike for a while over the winter.

Anyone on here who done a car license after having a bike for a while.
Been riding for over 3 years with full A2. Had 2 car lessons and went absolutely easy. Anyone got an idea of how many lessons is recommended, just out of couriosity or other people's experiences.

[colink98]

you mean taken a driving test for a license after having rode your bike for 2 years.

road craft is road craft.

i suspect your time on a bike will hold you in very good stead for a car driving test.

just no filtering..
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[FretGrinder]

I did my car test in January.

I've had my bike licence for 7 years, so I've clocked up many miles and also clocked up a lot of road experience.

I did my bike licence with only a year's CBT under my belt, which is probably why it took 3 attempts to pass Mod 1 and 5 attempts at Mod 2, that and test nerves got the better of me through a few of those attempts.

Fast forward to last October, did 9 lessons in the car and passed first time. In my opinion, the car test is a lot easier than the bike test. No silly riding around cones, no swerves, just get in the car, answer a couple of questions, do one single manoeuvre (ONE MANOEUVRE, unbelievable) and you'll be fine.
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[AshWebster]

Car test is 100x easier.

Practise parking.

rest is childs play.
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[chickenstrip]

After a number of years of riding bikes, I took my car test. I found it all very easy, no problems.

...well, just one
Whilst under instruction one time, I was about to go for a gap to get onto a roundabout, this in an XR2i, dual controls.
The instructor jammed his foot on the brakes and said, "you're not riding a motorcycle now, you wouldn't have made that!"

I was in disagreement, but there you go
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[Hasujek]

After 1 2hour lesson I personally didn't know what exactly I need to practice, from instructors point of view I perfectly done all manovers and would past the test, this was first time I attempted them aswell, with perfect driving on road (apart from squizzing in a tight spot). Not sure whether it will be easier to get own car and practice with a family member, then wasting money on lessons.

[chickenstrip]

[Hasujek]

[thx1138]

[Beehive Bedlam]

Neither test bike or car is hard unless you're a thicko with no coordination but even thickos pass eventually. Attitude counts a lot towards whether you receive a pass or fail.

Your main challenge will be getting used to the size of the car it will feel like the titanic compared to the bike.

I found the bike test the easiest of the two but we aren't all naturally gifted riders.

[c_dug]

I passed my car test first time, after probably 15 lessons, though there was a gap of around a year after the first 5. I think 10-12 would have been reasonable if I hadn't stopped.

Handing the pink licence to the examiner helps too (he said so himself).
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[DrDonnyBrago]

The thickest person I know took 15 attempts to pass the car theory test and 9 attempts to pass the car practical test after 3-4 years of weekly lessons.

She genuinely shouldn't be driving. No spatial awareness at all, numerous crashes. If even that pig shit thick moron can pass (eventually) then anybody can.

[Fisty]

[M.C]

[chickenstrip]

[stevo as b4]

I'm one of the few people that learned to drive before doing my bike test. It was because of both family pressure to learn to drive, and also because I was too skint at 17 to afford a really great 125.

I thought the car test was fairly easy, but it's very different having someone sat next to you watching every move, than it is having a bloke follow you on his bike. More pressure even I'd say. I was happy with my car and bike control long before I was 17, but theres fewer legal opportunities to practice driving a car before you get your provisional, and all the private road (cough)driving doesn't prepare you for the highway code and driving to test standard with regards to traffic rules etc.

I did my bike test 21years ago, and yeah I thought it wasn't too hard after the car test, but the bike test back then would have been much easier than it is now admittedly.

I think spending some time as a road user on two or four wheels does help you alot when learning to drive/ride respectively.

I agree with MC on the car driving test being far too easy still though, and that regular maybe 5-10year re-tests should be mandatory as long as the test fees are reasonable and not a government money making piss take instead.

Car drivers should have to be motorway proficient before getting a licence and I'm all for all drivers having to do a mandatory CBT. Call me nasty but we need to filter out more people to reduce the number of extra drivers on the road, before none of us can go anywhere because of total gridlock.

[pinkyfloyd]

[M.C]

[Polarbear]

I took my car test 30 years after passing my bike test purely because my wife took her bike test and I wasn't having her have one up on me.

I booked one of these intensive courses - 4 days of 5 hours a day and then test the day after.

After 2 days we were just driving round enjoying the countryside.

The only issue I had was I was using the wing mirrors more than the centre mirror but other than that it was a piece of piss.

Passes with 1 minor.
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[ThatDippyTwat]

Did my car at 18, about a year after getting my full bike license in '95. 1 minor (signal timing I think, it was a long time ago), piece of piss.

Because of the DVLA's utter incompetence, it looks like I'll have to do it again should my Solicitor fail to convince them they have indeed fucked up again. I don't expect any issues should I have to.
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[Fin]

Did my car test a week or so after the bike, I had around 10 lessons but I probably didn't need that many. The only thing to watch out for is the maneuvers you have to make.

I spent most of my car test in traffic

I believe 20 lessons is good for people new to the road.

[Analogkid]

[Kentol750]

Have you passed the theory test?
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