licence

Anyone heard of getting a replacement Euro licence,in order to put on
a full motorcycle licence on it - as an older long standing CBT rider
I am wondering about doing this ?

 

I saw a web-site a year or so ago that offered to do all of the
paperwork for you to apply for a licence in another European country
and swear that you were entitled to certain categories in order to get
a licence you could then trade for a UK one - is that what you're
talking about?

Either my Googling mojo has gone or the web-site has, either way I
wouldn't think that handing over money and idenity details to people
operating right on the very edges of the law is a good idea. If
you're very lucky they might send you 20 pages worth of small print
Albanian forms to fill in, more likely they'll empty your bank
account, they might even wait until you've perjured yourself in
writing and then blackmail you.

Fortunately there is a little known loop-hole which allows you to
convert your CBT to a full bike licence for only a few pounds and in
less than an hour ... what's more if you get it done in the next month
then you won't even have to do back-flips through fiery hops.

 

Mmmm, hoppy[1].

The sad thing is I typed "hopes", gave myself a slap, changed it to
"hops", thought, "That doesn't look right" and then hit "Send" anyway.

[1] And froddy.

 

You can't. Pass your test however and you can.

You can't be longer standing than 2 years. CBT exams only last 2 years and
you can't immediately take another CBT exam either.

--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Yes you can. Well, you're right that you can't take the exam, because
there's no such thing - it's a certificate of basic training.

 

Well we (you) can be as pedantic as you like, but the fact remains that you
can fail a gain a CBT certificate and without the certificate you can't
ride, so *someone* is examining your riding abilities and if they're not up
to scratch, you ain't riding. Id call that a test or an exam, wouldn't you?

I know that once upon a time a CBT certificate allowed you to ride on a
provisional license for as long as you wanted, but I believe that changed a
few years ago. Maybe it's the provisional license that only lasts two years,
but whichever it is, provisional or CBT certificate, the "result" is the
same. If you don't pass your practical test within 2 years of getting your
CBT certificate, you don't automagically keep your entitlement to ride.

--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

It changed more than a few years ago. I did my CBT in 1993 and the cert
was only valid for two years.

And yes, semantics aside, I agree entirely that you can "fail" the CBT.
my clutch control was so horrendous (at 16) that I can within a gnat's
whisker of failing. Or not passing. Whatever you want to call it.