License confusion - simple answer needed!

[georgefreeman918]

I am booked on to my CBT next weekend, which led me to getting my license out and out of interest looking at the license categories I have.

On my license I have Category A which according to the government website is the below;

Category A
You can drive:

motorbikes with a power output more than 35kW or a power to weight ratio more than 0.2kW/kg
motor tricycles with a power output more than 15kW
You can also drive motorbikes in categories A1 and A2.

This seems that i can ride any bike? I assume that this is subject to the relevant tests?

[GavC88]

Code 79(3) after it?

Restrictes to tricycles as i understand it.

[Pica-Pica]

As far as I am aware it means what it says, as you have described.
I have category A having passed my full motorcycle test back in 1976
(PS licence, not license! Seems a common misspelling on PH)

[cmaguire]

Pica-Pica said:

As far as I am aware it means what it says, as you have described.
I have category A having passed my full motorcycle test back in 1976
(PS licence, not license! Seems a common misspelling on PH)

A lot of these minor spelling issues occur because the spell-checker is US and not UK.
It frequently tells me I'm misspelling words

[georgefreeman918]

anonymous said:

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Yes it shows valid between 2013 and 2061. It seems to be when I was 21?

[Gavia]

Take a photo of your licence and post it on here. I will bet you 500-1 that you don’t have a full bike licence, unless you’ve taken the tests.

Or post up the results from here

https://www.gov.uk/view-driving-licence

[Gavia]

georgefreeman918 said:

anonymous said:

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Yes it shows valid between 2013 and 2061. It seems to be when I was 21?

I see you’ve picked this one answer that gives you what you want.

Does it say 79(3) after it?

[Pica-Pica]

Unless I am mis-reading licence codings it sounds that either
a) you did pass and get a category A (?) licence, and forgot, or
b) DVLA have messed up, and awarded you a category you are not entitled to!

[warch]

What Gav said. A with 79 (3) appears on any full UK license. A with nothing after it is a full UK motorcycle license.

I do know a bloke who moved to Spain and mysteriously gained full motorcycle entitlement when he got his license tranferred.

[Pica-Pica]

Added codes after category and dates are here

https://www.gov.uk/driving-licence-codes

Does OP have any restrictions that make sense (01, eyesight correction, is of course fairly common)

[georgefreeman918]

Makes sense now 79(3) seems to be the missing information I required.

Tricycles only! Time to get a full bike license!

[Pica-Pica]

georgefreeman918 said:

Makes sense now 79(3) seems to be the missing information I required.

Tricycles only! Time to get a full bike license!

So are you saying/confirming that you have 79 (3) as a column 12 code?
That explains things!

[Gavia]

Pica-Pica said:

georgefreeman918 said:

Makes sense now 79(3) seems to be the missing information I required.

Tricycles only! Time to get a full bike license!

So are you saying/confirming that you have 79 (3) as a column 12 code?
That explains things!

It wasn’t missing info that he required, it was existing info that he chose to ignore. He has got what everyone with a car licence has and that’s the OK to ride three wheelers.