How long have you had your licence?

[struan80]

How long have you had your licence?

What made you get into biking in the first place?


I've had 8 years, got it when I was 47 using DAS.

It was just a spur of the moment thing that got me in to biking. I was footering about on my pc back in 2013. Then randomly came across a Shadow VT125 for sale close to home. Took the urge to go and see it, bought it, rode it home then did my CBT after I'd ridden it for a bit. Instantly new that this was for me. I'm still addicted to bikes but don't go riding as often as I did when I first passed my test. Love it, whish I'd done it sooner in life.

[Nobby the Bastard]

30 years and I'd had a bike for 5 years by then.
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[The Shaggy D.A.]

Got into bikes via my dad, he rode despatch in the army - used to help him on his milk round as a kid when I was tall enough to reach the pillion pegs on his Bantam.

Both me and my brother are named after bikes - Douglas and James. I was almost Vincent. I inherited my sister's V50P at 15, but it spent more time off the road than on - by the time I was working I'd got a Mini Clubman Estate, as you can't really carry a guitar and amp for gigging on a bike

My partner at the time has said "if you get a bike I'm leaving", we split, I got a CB100N and took my test. That was 30 years ago.
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Previously : CB100N > CB250RS > XJ900F > GT550 > GPZ750R/1000RX > AJS M16 > R100RT > Bullet 500 > CB500 > LS650P > Bullet Electra X & YBR125 > Bullet 350 "Superstar" & YBR125 Custom > Royal Enfield Classic 500 Despatch Limited Edition (28 of 200) & CB Two-Fifty Nighthawk > ER5

[chickenstrip]

Have held a full license for 37 years, provisional for 2 years before that.
My brother was into bikes, all his mates had bikes, so they were around all the time. My dad also used to ride until he had an accident and hurt his back (like father... ).
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[Islander]

I passed my test in 1978 and footled around on a CB250K4 for a couple of years before that.

I was brought up around bikes. My father was a despatch rider before and during WW2 and had bikes when I was a kid - something must have stuck.

[Zen Dog]

Got my first 125 in about 2000, did my CBT a couple of times and rode 125s till I did my test in 2005. So 17 years.

I loved bicycles as a kid, so the idea of one I didn't have to pedal up all the bloody hills was always appealing. And a load of my family were bikers. I remember the first time my dad took me out on his CB550/4, we were on the dual carriageway and I thought we must be doing well over 100mph, we were flying, it felt like lightspeed on the Millennium Falcon. I peered over his shoulder and we were doing 60mph. I was sold.
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Current - '94 VFR750FR, '00 VFR800FI Previous - '10 Street Triple R, '92 MZ ETZ301, '05 TTR250, NSR125R, KMX125, "Honda" Win (chinese copy of an old Honda design with a C90 engine)
My bike trip around S.E. Asia 2010/2011

[steve the grease]

15 -12- 1973 .
Honda SL125.
Few hand signals, look over shoulder, etc. Round the block twice, once one way, once the other, my lap incorporated a set of traffic lights. Guy lunges into road with newspaper for the emergency stop. Passed.
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I've been riding, and fixing , bikes for 50 years, in that time the more I learn, the less I am absolutely sure of.....

[ThatDippyTwat]

First got it in 1995 at 17, been round bikes all my life, so it was a given... car license was a year later. Then 3yr ban, license revoked in 99. Couldn't get a quote (lat all) when I got the license back. Then life happened. CBT in 2014. Actually got rid of enough bad habits to pass my test in 2018. Still don't trust myself on a Supermoto. Still haven't bothered retaking the car license.
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'98 VFR800 (touring) - '12 VFR800 Crosrunner (Commuting) - '01 KDX220 (Big Green Antisocial Machine)

[to v or not to v]

i started on a 125 in 1990. was able to ride one on a car licence back then. what a good summer that was.

passed motorcycle test 1991.
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either.

[stevo123]

29 years. Jeesus Christ I'm old
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Honda XL125-Yammy DTR125-Honda NSR125-Yammy TZR 250-Aprilia RS125-KTM RC 125-
KTM RC390-Kawasaki Ninja 636-KTM Duke 390

[Nobby the Bastard]

[to v or not to v]

[Nobby the Bastard]

And I passed mine in 88 and didn't.

Cbt didn't exist then so all you needed was a provisional which could be applied for at any time including when you originally applied for a provisional car one.

That's the same as now except you have to do cbt now.
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[Nobby the Bastard]

Oh, one thing a full car license gave you was immunity from the mandatory year ban after 2 years without taking a test.
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha:"Remember this simple rule - scooters are for men who like to feel the breeze on their huge, flapping cunt lips."
Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[yen_powell]

Got my provisional and first bike in 1983 and passed my test in 1984.

Been riding nearly every day since then, apart from a brief 6 week period in 2005 when I was banned for a minor medical reason. Should have only been a month but my doctor wouldn't sign me off as fit as she didn't believe she had the authority.
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XT1200Z and a DR350 in bits

[MCN]

What licence?

TV?
Dog?
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Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN.

[DJP]

I passed my test on a CB100N in 1987 when I was 17. Although I started riding on a 'ped when I was 16.

35 years. 'Kin 'ell!
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Suzuki Bandit 1250
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[blurredman]

Signature
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CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S, 1979 MZ TS150.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 17k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 10k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 39k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 50k.

[arry]

14 years now.

Originally it was so as to have an option to commute to work - living close to M25 / A13 / Dartford Crossing has its benefits but it's also miserable when things go wrong so a 9 month motorcycle commute had enough upsides.

I snuck in just before they changed the test to this new fangled MOD1/2 ball-bags and didn't intend to buy a bike.

But then a biker mate of mine said I'll 'give you' my bike......it was actually I'll give it to you and you pay me when you can scrape the cash out of the joint account without Mrs Arry knowing, but it worked.

Then it was full steam ahead really.

Despite the initial reasoning, I've only ever had one job where commuting on the bike was a worthwhile experience and that only lasted ~6 months.

[Keithy]

Had a 125 as a hire in Corfu when I was about 21. Didn’t have a clue, dropped it, took it back and swapped it for a car.
2019 and I decided to do CBT as it’s cheaper than getting a pilot’s licence. They declined to let me on the road. Did a DAS course where I repeatedly dropped an F750GS and miraculously got a full licence in Sep 2020, aged 55. Got an ER6 and after a year chopped it in for a Z1000SX. Nobody I know has a bike and I don’t know any family who have had one.

[jeffyjeff]

Summer 1969 "Easy Rider" hit the movie theatres. I was a 15 year old kid from Oregon. My friends and I thought that movie was beyond cool. Worked as a deckhand on a salmon trawler that summer and purchased a Suzuki 120. Turned 16 in December 1969, tested and passed on my birthday.

A year or so later, the film documentary "On Any Sunday" came out. By that time we were seasoned teenage riders. Never got into motocross that much, but flat track and road racing, OH YEAH! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H9xfKW0zJE
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[BRUN]

Less than a year me

[Rob W]

Did my CBT back in '99 and had that for 4 years, then had a lay-off for a bit and did my test in '05.

Glad I did mine before all this Mod 1/2 bollocks as well, one test and I was done.
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'16 GSX-S1000F

[Ste]

[chickenstrip]