Loons on motorbikes

[stan bowles]

Not wishing to condemn all motorcyclists but I've never understood why a learner is allowed out on a motorbike/scooter with 'L' plates on. I see more and more out and about every day. What's the incentive to pass your test if you're allowed to ride on public roads unaccompanied ? What's the threshold for proficiency with a motorbike ?

 

[FantasyIreland]

Not wishing to condemn all motorcyclists but I've never understood why a learner is allowed out on a motorbike/scooter with 'L' plates on. I see more and more out and about every day. What's the incentive to pass your test if you're allowed to ride on public roads unaccompanied ? What's the threshold for proficiency with a motorbike ?

You can only ride a 125cc after passing a CBT course,which covers the basics of riding and road awareness.

A full licence,for big bikes, requires an intensive training programme.

 

[TonyM]

A lot more dicks on pushbike nowadays.
The food delivery business has a lot to answer for.

Ya. Down with food.

 

[Mr Fraser]

Don't get me started on e scooters

 

[ballbag]

Was in the major trauma ward in December after a RTC. 10 people on the ward. 7 of them in there after motorbike crashes. None of them wearing gloves/leathers. Could see the bones in the hands and elbows of some of them. Skin graft city.

 

[Metal Biker]

Not wishing to condemn all motorcyclists but I've never understood why a learner is allowed out on a motorbike/scooter with 'L' plates on. I see more and more out and about every day. What's the incentive to pass your test if you're allowed to ride on public roads unaccompanied ? What's the threshold for proficiency with a motorbike ?

How else are you meant to learn? You can safely learn the basics of riding on a 125cc easily by yourself. Also you are restricted to 125cc for a couple of years; no such restrictions for learner drivers.

You seem to be confusing 'learner riders' with tossers who don't care about rules or who they hurt in the process. That can apply to dickhead drivers as well. You don't need a license to physically drive a car illegally and drive like a lunatic.

Those who don't care about rules don't tend to care about the safety of others either.

 

[urban genie]

Take it we are on about the knobs on scramblers, mopeds and quad bikes.

Young scrotes normally being encouraged/used by some local small. time ganster who thinks he is the next maffia don yet uses impressionable teenagers to sell his gear and rewards them with stolen bikes and a sense of family.


modern version of a fagan type charactor 10 years ago they were all on bikes, now its scramblers and e scooters.

 

[Barcon]

Not wishing to condemn all motorcyclists but I've never understood why a learner is allowed out on a motorbike/scooter with 'L' plates on. I see more and more out and about every day. What's the incentive to pass your test if you're allowed to ride on public roads unaccompanied ? What's the threshold for proficiency with a motorbike ?

Not sure about over there but over here you first take a written test. If you pass that you are given a 90 day licence. Under that licence you cannot ride on any 400 series hwys (90km/per hour speed limits), cannot ride one hour before sunset and one hour after sunrise and cannot have any passengers.
You must take your road test before the 90 days are up.
Another difference is that there are no restrictions on bike sizes. You can ride a 1400cc bike as soon as you get your licence.

 

[Nellies left peg]

When I was a kid you could ride a 250 cc bike on l plates that was capable of 100mph near enough. If the truth be told we all did silly things and the traffic wasn’t half as bad as it is today. The bike test was a couple of laps round the block and the examiner would appear to test your emergency stop.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

A lot more dicks on pushbike nowadays.

Yeh and they go through red lights, ride on pavements, cut up on the inside of moving traffic and everything like.
And all with no insurance or consideration for the other road users.

Last but not least, they then have the audacity to place cameras on their Elmets to record motorists bad driving habits!