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annemarie Borekit Bruiser
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Posted: 20:30 - 28 Jul 2019 Post subject: DAS advice |
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Hello!
I have just done a CBT on a geared bike and have passed theory test, looking to get further training asap and get a full licence. My school is really good but they said they could only book MOD 1 and 2 tests for October now. It's end of July and I'm just wondering if it's worth to call other schools?
How come other places offer 1 week courses to full licence including the tests while other schools 'struggle' to book and the waiting time is 2 months
I am based in the countryside in Somerset so I dont get a big choice of schools either...
Just so you understand my frustration and why I'm in such a rush, I am currently riding a 125cc automatic and didn't really want to spend the hard saved money for a big bike on a 125 geared just to sell it afterwards. I thought I would get a full licence and get a proper bike as I can't stand the automatic 125.
Any thoughts appreciated and if anyone knows a good place in Somerset/Bath/Bristol area to recommend... |
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annemarie Borekit Bruiser
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I contacted another place and they have some earlier days available, but not that much earlier, and the MOD1 is 3 days before MOD 2 so that's quite risky to pay for the whole thing in one go and then not pass.
I think I'll just work on my patience and stick to my school especially that they know me and where I am with training, I know they are nice people etc
Might reconsider and buy a geared 125 for the time being to practice and get off the automatic (!!!!!). Nothing fancy, an used Japanese would probably be ok?
The frustration also comes from not being treated as a human being or a tax paying road user, so just want to get to a full licence before I loose faith in humanity completely or end up on moto madness... |
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baritone wrote: | I'm 50, Tef - so no rush as such, more a sober desire not to wait two months between my Mod 1 (passed in early July) and Mod 2, when a one month wait is available. |
Ah, I see. I'm 48 & 3/4; So the rush is... baritone wrote: | I want to get my licence whilst I'm still young (ish) ahead of alziemers |
You know... it may already be too late... lol!
But still, a little more seriosely, back in the early '90's whan they first introduced the 'Persuit Test' with examiner following you in a car or on another bike; the licence itself had a 2 year validity; if you didn't pass a driving test before it expired you were 'banned' from holding provisional M/C entitlement for a year, BUT just to make life interesting, to get a test date you had to fill in a paper form at the post office, in black ink, in block capitols, and wait maybe 6 weeks for them to send you back a post card with a test date, that could be anything up to or over a YEAR away... in fact due to the shortage of 'persuit' qualified examiners, wait at some test centers was often longer than candidates provisional licence entitement! Meanwhile, you also had to include your 'Part 1' test pass certificate, the precursor to a CBT or MOD 1, and issued by a bike school not the DSA, and getting one of them was a stare secret! Without it, your form would be returned to you with your postal-order, and you would be left hiking around the district trying to find some-one who even knew what the heck a Part 1 test WAS, let alone signed the pass cert!
Chap in the local bike shop, (usually in brown overalls and shop-coat looking like a Ronnie Barker, open-all-hours, under-study!) would tend to ask things like "What part? Does it go in the engine or on the frame?" And when local mechanic finally helped put and told you his oppo 'Bryan' did them in Wolworths car-park on a Sunday mormning, you'd go to Woolies on a Sunday morning and find Byan noteable by his absence, cos he only turned up if it wasn't raining or he'd not had a skinful the night before, or there wasn't a race meet at Mallory or where-ever that Sunday!
Count blessings mate... a one or two month 'wait' maybe anoying in our modrn 'push button; on demand;' wired world, but its NOTHING in real terms or anything compared to what the wait and plain hassle used to be in the days of envelopes and stamps......
annemarie wrote: | Prawny wrote: |
God this is so true, I've gone from being cycle commuter scum riding into Birmingham city centre to a Scooter thug, I'm not sure which is worse. I need to swap to a geared bike ASAP. | I don't deserve to be treated like a piece of shit just cause I don't shift, yet. |
See advice on webby; cars DO follow to close, this is NOT 'cos of your L-Plate, though that wont help, they do it to every-one, even bludy great 4x4's, buses and trucks, let slone motorcyles they can barely see to start with....
First relax, and get used to it, they 'look' closer than they are in the mirrors anyway, ans as said, they do it to every-one; if you cant deal with it, that YOUR problem, not the bike, or the L-Plate... you have to get used to Audi Proctologists, and learn NOT to either hyperventilat OR fixate on them, but 'compensate', and ride your own road, at your own pace...
sure scooters with the weight at the back, and on the swing-arm, and with a rubber-band transmission, are NOT the most stable of bikes.... in factr, old joke, Vespa means 'Wasp' in Italian and chap who designed it was an aeronautical engineer where it was a joke that aeronautically a bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, its winspan is to short for its body-weight; only reasom it can? No one has told the bee that!!!
And chap loathed motorbikes with a passion, so legend says, given the job to design one when war reporations meant he couldn't design a fast jet fighter... he decided to make something SO daft that broke so many rules 'managememt' would scrap the idea and put him on a project to design something more glamourouse, like a tractor.. so started by saying, in Italian, "Ah Yez, Stability... need dee big wheelz.. so what is the SMALLEST lidduw tyres Eye can get?" and woeked from there, offsetting the wheels from the center line by an inch or spo just as a pies-de-resistamce!!!
BUT, point is, you hope that the problem will be solved for you nu anmother kind of bike and/or geyyoing the licence.. well licence is no bad start, but if you cant hack it, you cant hack it; ots not the bike that's the 'real' problem here.. itys your expectations.. and following traffic like toi p,lay proctologist, regardless, get used to it, or get off the two-wheels. ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
Current Bikes:'Honda VF1000F' ;'CB750F2N' ;'CB125TD ( 6 3 of em!)'; 'Montesa Cota 248'. Learner FAQ's:= 'U want to Ride a Motorbike! Where Do U start?' |
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It took me 3 attempts to pass my "Big Bike" test. You just have to be patient and accept the process as it is. Btw my second test was abandoned because the examiners radio went on the fritz so really I passed second time |
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annemarie Borekit Bruiser
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Posted: 17:50 - 31 Jul 2019 Post subject: |
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Thanks, good to hear from someone who went through similar steps.
When I count it for every training day on rented 125 I would need to pay £150 so buying a used 125, practicing on it for 2 months and selling it even for a bit less still seems like a win. Especially that we both ride so my partner can help. I also got a bigger bike already waiting for me so if he is on the insurance we can practice on the 750cc as well which should help with the big bike training, even if i cant use it for the test... Wouldn't touch the 1800 he got tho |
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Old Thread Alert!
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