Do I need to do the CBT?

Looking at when my license was issued it seems I can ride a 125 legally
without doing CBT.

However my ins. co. will only insure if CBT has been done.

If anyone is aware of a company that will insure me to ride a bike please
let me know, I really cant be arsed spending a freezing cold day at a
training centre.

Rick

 

No, you can't. Is it a very old licence? Perhaps it was issued before
the CBT became a requirement.

Tough. "It's the law."

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Issued in 1990.

I am almost certain that when I passed my test I was allowed to ride a 125
without a test.
When CBT came in licences already out there still allowed such, although
getting insurance seems to be an issue.

 

From 2 different bike training sites.

'If you have a full car licence, you are automatically entitled to ride a
moped without L-Plates although if the licence relates to a car test passed
on or after 1 February 2001 you must first complete a CBT course and obtain
a DL196 Certificate to validate your entitlement.'

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, R D S belched forth and ejected the following:

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, one was only allowed to ride a 125
for two years before taking a test.

 

Good, so you can ride a 50cc bike then, but not a 125cc.

 

I was reading here under Mopeds and Motorcycles.

http://www.bikerland.co.uk/Motorcycles/License.htm

It seems there may be some formatting issues, but it led me to believe that
a 125cc was covered under moped.

 

Now take the time to look up the definition of "moped". If you see 125cc
anywhere in the description, you're in, but you won't, so you're stuck with
riding a moped (50cc maximum)

without L-Plates although if the licence relates to a car test passed

Still doesn't allow you to ride a 125. Pass your CBT (actually, it's more
like "attend" the CBT course and of you don't fall off, you're good for 2
years on a 125.


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Back before then , you could ride one forever (a 250cc too). I think the
dinasours may still be roaming too as you can still only ride for a couple
of years if you don't take your test. Or you fail it, if you do.


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There may well be formatting issues, but this si the relevant section
to you:

"Mopeds and Motorcycles
A moped is a motorcycle that has the following features:
Maximum Design speed not exceeding 50kmh (approx. 31mph).
An engine capacity no greater than 50cc."

The "learner motorcycle" is up to 125cc and 11KW power output, and for
that you will need a Cat A or Light Motorcycle licence, for which you
will have to do a CBT.

 

A moped is a motorcycle that has the following features:
Maximum Design speed not exceeding 50kmh (approx. 31mph).
An engine capacity no greater than 50cc.
Can be moved by pedals, if the moped was first used before 1 August
1977

A learner motorcycle has the following features:
Engine up to 125cc.
Power output not exceeding 11kW.Licences

Seems clear to me.

 

Did you get some new specs?

 

ITYM "Thanks for all the help, guys. It looks like I was wrong".

 

I'm often wrong, erm... thanks for all the help guys.

 

I'm afraid you must.

 

<g> Good luck with the CBT!

 

Not yet, too bloody busy. Anyway, I told you I'd be getting them from you
and I will. One of these days


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When did the 250 limit come in? I've a feeling it was sometime in the
60s and before that you could ride anything of any size forever with L
plates.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Grimly Curmudgeon belched forth and ejected the
following:

I don't know if it's still possible but the way round it when we were
kids was to bolt a sidewinder onto the side of a GPZ900 or whatever took
your fancy.

 

It didn't so much "coome in" as "went out". I can't remember the exact year,
but it was either the late 7's or early 90's. Back in the 60's when I
started riding, the bike of choice for learners was the Triumph Tiger Cub or
the BSA C-12 and C-15. The Cub was 200cc and the Beezers were 250 and there
wasn't a CBT back then either, you just bought one and rode it.


I've a feeling it was sometime in the

Just up to 250's. A test was necessary for anything else but you COULD ride
a combo of any size with "L" plates attached. The test was extraordinarilly
difficult though. You had to ride around the block and not kill the examiner
when he stepped out into tthe road forcing an emergency stop.

Not many were killed either, so the riding back then must've been SO much
better than today Either that, or seeing the examiner walk lazily out into
the almost traffic free street two hundred yards away helped.



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