Bike test ?

[tommyardin]

[quote author=Robbie8666 link=topic=23619.msg273295#msg273295 date=1515072583]
Asking for a mate as I passed my bike test 25 years ago up in Nottingham!!
mate interested in getting a bike, he's 38ish and now looking at getting a bike, he's got car licence so what does he have to do to get a full bike licence?
any one recommend a training school in Portsmouth / Gosport area?

If he has ridden bikes before then he would be best off going straight for the Direct Access Scheme (DAS) Course. Not cheap though but only 3 or 4 days and he gets a full licence (if he passes his test of course).
If he hasn't ridden bikes before then he would need to consider some form of training and and then going the CBT etc. route.
I am one of the lucky ones. I passed my test in 1978 when the examiner stood on a corner with a clipboard and watched you go around the block.  :lol
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Same as Grayo, my test took about 12 minutes, riding around a figure of eight just off the Epsom Road Guildford, examiner walked down ally-ways between the roads of the figure eight and appeared at different points around the circuit. I had to ride at walking pace beside him for about 40 or 50 feet without putting a foot down, I had done some trials riding so that was a piece of p--s, just trailing the rear brake, a Jump out on you from behind a van emergency stop (Could see hill feet and trouser behind the van as I came up the hill) totally prepared  :lol 
Back to the test centre 3 questions and thank you very much. 1966
I was back at home in Fernhurst Sussex within two hours of leaving, 32 mile round trip.
Jobs-a-Gudun  :rolleyes

Mind you my car test wasn't much longer, about 35 minutes to complete, thank you very much again. :lol