Mod 1& 2 without a bike

[heterosapien]

I've been on my A2 license for a good few years now and finally decided to make the jump to full unrestricted. I'm in the market for a new bike anyway, & may as well make the most of it.

Don't need a riding school, I just want to book the test, show up & leave. My question is, what do you do about the bike? My current is a '07 CBF500 which as far as I can tell even if I de-restricted it and slapped L plates on for the test, it wouldn't meet the minimum. 56BHP & 500cc displacement as opposed to the 65BHP they want.

Tried calling around a few riding schools & they'll only offer 1/2 day training for both modules minimum, which is infalting the cost from ~£100 in test fees to almost 400 quid!
Anybody know if there are any hire companies for situations like this?

[Krikkit]

This came up recently in another thread.

Idea was to restrict and de-restrict your bike at the test centre, but ran into it being a) tricky to do in the test centre car park and b) an insurance nightmare.

You might find a hire company, but I doubt it would work out that much cheaper than the school - they'd have to transport it directly to the test centre for you.

[Fort Jefferson]

heterosapien said:

Don't need a riding school.

You may not need them to teach you how to ride, but you may need them to teach you how to pass your test.

[Danm1les]

Fort Jefferson said:

You may not need them to teach you how to ride, but you may need them to teach you how to pass your test.

This, a friend of mine tried this method and failed in 30 seconds.

[WarnieV6GT]

heterosapien said:

I've been on my A2 license for a good few years now and finally decided to make the jump to full unrestricted. I'm in the market for a new bike anyway, & may as well make the most of it.

Don't need a riding school, I just want to book the test, show up & leave. My question is, what do you do about the bike? My current is a '07 CBF500 which as far as I can tell even if I de-restricted it and slapped L plates on for the test, it wouldn't meet the minimum. 56BHP & 500cc displacement as opposed to the 65BHP they want.

Tried calling around a few riding schools & they'll only offer 1/2 day training for both modules minimum, which is infalting the cost from ~£100 in test fees to almost 400 quid!
Anybody know if there are any hire companies for situations like this?

£400 ?! You need to try a different riding school mate.

Mine charged £80 for mod 1 and £130 for mod 2 test with lesson before hand and obviously bike hire

[epom]

Fort Jefferson said:

heterosapien said:

Don't need a riding school.

You may not need them to teach you how to ride, but you may need them to teach you how to pass your test.

Exactly, not always the same thing.

[Pravus1]

I paid £400 for one day training and then mod 1 and 2. It's worth it even with those couple of years just to make sure you are test standard.

[heterosapien]

Fort Jefferson said:

You may not need them to teach you how to ride, but you may need them to teach you how to pass your test.

Thing is, I've passed my test twice already. I was stupid enough to do the A1 license back in the day so coupled with the A2 that'll make this the third time I've been to a riding school and paid for instructors. I did my A2 with Phoenix and even then my instructor asked why I'd booked so much.

I suppose I'll just suck it up and do it again.

[jrich123]

I did my training and test through Phoenix Crystal Palace earlier this year, top guys.

Pretty sure they'll do bike hire, ride to test and test as a package without any "training".

From memory the mod 1 was £80 all in and mod 2 was £180 or thereabouts... worth asking them as they're pretty flexible with the packages.