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I love 2-strokes. My last one was in the '70s. A KH400 Kawasaki triple. I recently bought a new bike and was so tempted to keep the old one and buy a £10K 1977 mint KH400 as a summer runabout. Still not sure I did the right thing.
Drag race it in a hayfield. With your open face lid and best T-shirt of course. What else
One of the guys I work with has been using a moped to get to work for a couple of years but has effectively been banned from driving because the government have refused to extend existing CBTs.
Still miss it to be honest, I'm not a fan of driving cars no matter what car it is. I've often thought about getting a trial bike and going somewhere quiet for a ride now and then
As we both know well, the CBT was not originally intended to be the equivalent of a riding MOT every two years, but a stepping stone to being able to practice on a 125cc for 2 years to pass a test and get a motorcycle licence. Which is why, in its early years, not passing a test during the first two years resulted in a one year motorcycle ban. I didn't start doing learner training until after the authorities had dropped that and permitted repeat CBTs every two years, so I wasn't paying attention to their reasoning.
Can you shed any light on it?
He's now stuck, as he can't renew his CBT OR take his test, so a competent everyday rider has basically been banned, and is struggling to get to work.
Car sharing is illegal and there's no public transport for his shifts.
He also has to park on the street so he has to keep paying his insurance.
It seems a bit harsh to me to ban people who have already hit the standard required for that vehicle, especially as they didn't hesitate to extend MOTs by six months last year.
Successive governments have never seen motorcycles as anything other than a hobby though, to them it's no different to being banned from using a jetski.
More likely the DVSA don't want to be rammed with too many people doing their practical test this summer and see they can slow demand down by hiding behind the need for candidates to get another Theory Test pass first. And it's extra revenue for the Pearsons of this world.
For those who don't know, the the DVSA Theory Test process is run by an outsourced company. There will be several months worth of people who would have passed their Practical test before needing another Theory Test and now they won't be able to, so now will be paying for tests they would not have needed.
Your first bike is the one you do most falling off on (or from should that be?). I remember at least 3 offs. The first turning out of our house onto the Main Street one morning and giving it the beans for a crowd of school kids standing at at a bus-stop. Cold tyres, lovely pirouette and landed on my @rse in front of the impressed throng.
Another one involved some diesel on another roundabout, and the biggest one was - yet another roundabout - where the line taken by me was somewhat at odds with the one designed and built by the relevant Roads and Highways Engineer.
Clown