Can I ride a Moped

DJDJDJDJ

consumers_revenge wrote: »

Cbt renewal is every 2 years.

I know as I'm just about to renew it for the 5 time.

What is the reason for renewal? Isn't is similar to a car license where you take your theory test once and you are done (if you get your license within the next 2 year period?)

DJDJDJDJ

OK, here is my understanding. Please correct me if I am wrong.

1. With my current full car license (2009), I cannot ride a moped or bike right now.
2. If I take a CBT course, I can ride a moped with my existing license without doing anything additional.
3. To get a full, unrestricted bike license (which I do want), I need to:

• 3a* Take Theory Test
• 3b* Ensure I have done my CBT, If not complete CBT
• 3c* Pass DAS A1 and A2 motorcycle tests (probably through some type of course.

Thanks.

Cash-Strapped.T32

The reason for renewing a CBT is that it only grants you permission to ride on roads for 2 years.
It's meant as a means of training - "practice mode," if you will - in order to take the actual test.
Once you have passed your CBT, you can ride with L-plates for 2yrs, with certain restrictions. ie; Must use L-plates, no passengers, no motorways, and depending on yur age, you can only ride a 50cc (if 16 yrs old), or at most a 125 (if 17 yrs old or above).

As I say, it's a means of training, it is *NOT* a licence in and of itself.
Indeed, you can only take your CBT if you already have a provisional licence.

In your case OP, your existing car licence takes the place of a provisional licence, and this is why you can ride a 50 or 125 after you've passed a CBT.

For example; If you were, say 17yrs old and wanted to take a CBT so you can ride a scooter or small motorbike, you'd have to apply for a provisional licence before you took the CBT.
However it would clearly be silly to expect you, an existing licence holder to apply for a provisional on top of your existing licence (in fact I don't even know if that provision exists within the DVLA's systems), so the rules make the allowance that an existing licence holder can use that existing licence in place of the provisional, for the purpose of taking one's CBT.

Some people may, for lifestyle reasons, choose only to take their CBT and just keep renewing it every 2yrs, but I doubt this was the intention of the committee who designed the rule.
Personally, I rode on L-plates for 2yrs prior to taking my test, and eked-out every bit of "free" training I could get before I took the practical test in 2010.



As for your plan; I see no fault in it, except don't think "A1" or "A2".
Those are categories of motorbike entitlement that will restrict what you can ride.
Go category A (what we colloquially describe as "DAS").

Once upon a time, I'd have said there's no need to go the full DAS route, unless you had some secret, boy-racer hankering to have a super-powerful bike from day-1.
Just ride-out the 2yr limit on a modest bike and then progress to a bigger one if you need to later.

However now we have these ridiculous A1/A2 categories for life, and passing on a small (A1) or medium sized (A2) machine means you can *never* ride anything bigger, then I suggest you go full DAS and get a category A.

For instance, my manual bike, a 500cc ER5 is nowadays considered too small to take the full A-category test on. It's now listed an A2 machine.
I will need to hire a 600+cc bike to take my practical test. How mad is that?

So yeah, go full DAS. Pass on a 600+ cc manual bike - then you can by all means ride a scooter, or a bike, or anything that comes your way - but under the system we have now just know that if you go A1 or A2, you won't be able to ride anything bigger, ever.