Have a free motor cycle ride

tbourner

I have to say I was disappointed, I contacted the local place and they said a 'free' ride would be about 20-30 mins, but I could use it to get £10 off my CBT instead if I booked it. At £115 normally I went with a different small firm that charged £95 anyway.

crazyterrier2000

on again

http://www.geton.co.uk/

thornton_chris

Try out motorcycling for a day!

Go to the 'geton' web site and select 'have a free ride' at the top left of the page.

Cheers,

Chris

crazyterrier2000

been going for a while

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2049389

indelacio

Want a free ride ;-) Ill take you on a wild ride :-p haha

Sorry havent even visited the website yet, but do you really want to hop on the back of a randoms bike somewhere specially a biker lol.

mandycr

indelacio wrote: »

Want a free ride ;-) Ill take you on a wild ride :-p haha

Sorry havent even visited the website yet, but do you really want to hop on the back of a randoms bike somewhere specially a biker lol.

nooooo lol it isnt like that hubby signed up for it last year whilst he was doin his lessons u get to ride a bike on yer own must have your cbt done first though lol

JamesO

Roughly on topic. I hope you don't mind.

My daughter has recently asked me to buy her some lessons on a bike for her birthday (I'm not that impressed myself - but you're only young once).

I've just gone and booked us a session with these people as an early birthday present to make sure she likes it before I pay out for anything.

I was wondering if someone could give me a rough idea of the costs that she will be facing (assuming she likes it) to get a little 50cc and her test/lessons as I'm going to offer her 50% of her costs for these for her birthday (assuming that's not significantly more than I'd expect and then we might do a % contribution based on her saving up over time and she might have to talk to her mother about helping out)

When I was a lad (back when we'd thing nothing of walking 50 miles to school in the snow every morning :P) I didn't have any lessons as such and was driving from 14. I know that lessons are expensive, and lord knows I know how expensive cars are, so, what's a reasonable estimate to get:

a little second hand 50cc (that should be big enough to get her round uni? or should it be a 125?)
a helmet (not second hand for preference)
lessons (average is what? 5? 10?)
the test itself (or is it 2?)
A provisional license I know is £50

Anything I've forgotten?


Either way, thanks to the original poster for finding this as it should be good fun - never even ridden a peddle bike in my life!

tbourner

JamesO wrote: »

I was wondering if someone could give me a rough idea of the costs that she will be facing (assuming she likes it) to get a little 50cc and her test/lessons as I'm going to offer her 50% of her costs for these for her birthday (assuming that's not significantly more than I'd expect and then we might do a % contribution based on her saving up over time and she might have to talk to her mother about helping out)

I know that lessons are expensive, and lord knows I know how expensive cars are, so, what's a reasonable estimate to get:

a little second hand 50cc (that should be big enough to get her round uni? or should it be a 125?)
a helmet (not second hand for preference)
lessons (average is what? 5? 10?)
the test itself (or is it 2?)
A provisional license I know is £50

Anything I've forgotten?

Why are you getting lessons? You only need to do a CBT (£100) and that gives you the skills for the road, then you can ride for 2 years to get experience required for the test. Obviously it depends on what she wants to ride, if she wants something bigger than a 125 then she'll need to do a test, and if she wants something bigger than a 250 she'll need to do DAS, which can be £400-£500 or more.

As for your list, I'd recommend a 125, 50s are dangerous (IMO) as car drivers whizz past them too close - she'll need to ride defensively (middle of the lane) whatever she gets. I bought a chinese 125 scooter (which I'm now trying to sell to upgrade to a geared bike 125) but there are plenty of options for £500-£1000.
Safety stuff to buy and what mine cost: Helmet (£90), gloves (£30), armoured jacket (£16 eBay ). I use my walking boots at the moment but I'll be getting some bike boots when I get my geared bike and some proper trousers or kevlar jeans, do NOT wear trainers and as a MINIMUM wear jeans, no tracksuits or shorts/skirts, you can get overtrousers with armour pretty cheap (again about £15 eBay). They go through all that stuff on the CBT as well.
The test is theory, module1, module2. I haven't done it yet though still riding on my CBT certificate, I think mod1 and mod2 are done at the same time but not sure. Theory should be £31 and the practical modules should come to around £100.

andipandi72

I searched but could not find this anywhere

GET ON are offering 1 hour lessons on how to ride a motorbike for free, it's like a taster sesson. I've always wanted to have a go just to see if I liked it and if it easy or not.

Looks like there are lots of centres all over the Uk offering this.

http://www.geton.co.uk


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geordie_ben

Sweet, there's a taster place near me defs gonna give it a whirl