CBT

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[TissoT]

I have had a full bike licence for 9 years ... If I remember rightly first part of the morning was spent riding around a school car park riding in and out of road cones
and the afternoon out on the road . If you can prove you can stay up right and answer some basic Highway code question you will have yourself a ticket .

 

[hondated]

I have been a biker for nearly fifty years and I am amazed at the number of hoops that prospective motorcyclists have to jump through these days to get a full licence. I take my hat off to them as I am not sure I could pass the test now.
One of my friends young girlfriend passed her test a couple of years ok and thought that after the requisite time, which I think was two years she just had to apply to have her full licence upgraded to be able to ride a larger capacity bike but because the rules had changed she had to retake her test on a larger bike to get an upgrade on her licence. Thankfully she did and passed but what a palaver.
As for me yes I have been motorcycling for over fifty years but I am still learning and I always will be as far as I am concerned.

 

[Brandane]

I take my hat off to them as I am not sure I could pass the test now

I'm not sure if I could be bothered to pass the test now. Which I believe is the purpose of making people jump through so many hoops - make it such an expensive faff that bikers disappear from view; and from the numbers I see on the road these days, that aim has been quite successful.
Good luck and safe riding to MiniMaggott; it's something I still enjoy very much. Test passed in 1983 when it was a couple of figure of 8's round the block, and no CBT!

 

[raleighnut]

[QUOTE 4152642, member: 45"]It's understandable. Managing a big bike takes a lot of practice and much more self-control.[/QUOTE]
You say that but the easiest bike to ride I ever got on was Grahams FJ1200, he'd had it about 3wks when he brought it round to mine and said "Try this",
It'd pull off with no revs, was so balanced it was effortless to ride and the controls were so 'featherlight' it was unreal. We went out later that day and he had it in top gear (with both of us on it) slowed down to almost walking pace in top gear without touching the clutch just gently fed the throttle in, 10-180 mph in 1 gear (top) with 30 stone aboard.

 

[snorri]

My GP once asked me if I had ever had CBT, I replied in the affirmative in the belief that CBT was the abbreviation for Computer Based Training.
It was many months later that I discovered he had been referring to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

 

[dan_bo]

I have been a biker for nearly fifty years and I am amazed at the number of hoops that prospective motorcyclists have to jump through these days to get a full licence. I take my hat off to them as I am not sure I could pass the test now.
One of my friends young girlfriend passed her test a couple of years ok and thought that after the requisite time, which I think was two years she just had to apply to have her full licence upgraded to be able to ride a larger capacity bike but because the rules had changed she had to retake her test on a larger bike to get an upgrade on her licence. Thankfully she did and passed but what a palaver.
As for me yes I have been motorcycling for over fifty years but I am still learning and I always will be as far as I am concerned.

You haven't been to Manchester Velodrome then.

 

[hondated]

No dan-bo I haven't and I am now intrigued. Do you have to jump through hoops before you are allowed on the track then.

 

[ColinJ]

No dan-bo I haven't and I am now intrigued. Do you have to jump through hoops before you are allowed on the track then.

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