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Should I get a Car or Moped?
phantom sneeze
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I've been past the Peugeot garage and seen some nice looking brand new 125cc Vespas which quite take my fancy and at a decent price, I could do my CBT and and get insurance for under 5 grand, but the problem is I have no where to park it apart from the road outside my house and its a busy one with people walking past all the time.
Or I could get a car and insurance for the same price and have people drive it for me while I take the driving test, perhaps learn in it and that'll give me more incentive and motivation to learn quicker. And their wouldn't be any problem with parking as cars are pretty secure.
Or I could get a car and insurance for the same price and have people drive it for me while I take the driving test, perhaps learn in it and that'll give me more incentive and motivation to learn quicker. And their wouldn't be any problem with parking as cars are pretty secure.
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Chances are you will need a car eventually anyway, so you may as well get the car now.
There ya go
It looks like are now not allowed to ride a moped without having completed a CBT or passed a motorcycle test.
https://www.gov.uk/cbt-compulsory-basic-training/cbt-if-you-have-a-car-driving-licence
think that has been the case for at least a number of years now. And you also need a provisional license. And I think you have to take a bike test of some sort within 2 years.
And, when we went out to a country pub for a meal a few weeks ago, which was at capacity which we know to be just over 80 people, people were drinking all types of alcohol from larger to wine, and the car park was full up (it is several miles from nearest town). The cops could have waited outside and checked every driver, I bet all but about 6 people (me being one of them) would have been over the limit.
Why didn't you phone the police, knowing that the pub was full to the brim of drunkards all about to weave their merry ways home, presuming they could get as far as successfully getting the keys in the ignition?
It's lager, not larger.
OP - buy yourself a decent bicycle and have free transport in your locality.
A car is more beneficial. You can transport people in it, put your shopping or any other items in it.
When it's raining, you are also protected from the rain by being inside the car.
Most people drank more than a couple of pints.....and those drinking wine drank more than a couple.
And remember I said it was out in the country, no mobile phone signal.
People knowingly break laws all the time - I see many drivers using their mobile phones everyday, yet it is illegal in this country.
Cycling isn't much fun in this area, due to the pot holes and the hills. It's only a couple of cyclists I see each day & the "experts" that go out in force on a Sunday.
Yes, definitely !
The CBT allows you to ride with L-plates for up to 2 years. You're also restricted to whatever cc you took the CBT on so you won't be able to ride anything above 125cc. You can take a motorcycle test anytime within those 2 years which then means you can lose the L-plates and ride whatever size machine you've took the test for. Bear in mind there are 3 classes of test now which restrict you to certain sizes of bikes and depending on age you may not be able to take the higher cc tests.
The actual motorcycle test is in 3 parts which are taken at separate times and you need to do them in the following order:
Theory
Module 1: Off road
Module 2: On road
You can just retake the CBT at the end of the 2 years and carry on riding with L-plates. I've heard of people doing this so they don't have to pass the full test. To be honest though you should be perfectly capable of passing the tests if you've spent 2 years riding around on the roads and the test costs are about the same as a CBT anyway.