Bike test ?

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[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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I had to do a days CBT, i think in 1997, even though i'd been riding since 1987, and there was a French bloke there who had a scooter delivered by truck to the training area so he could learn on that, but obviously wasn't allowed on the road yet without an instructor.
As i had vast experience in comparison i ended up giving others help when they were stalling their bike, etc, but when this particular fella had to do his emergency stop it all went a bit Pete Tong.


The instructor put his hand up for him to stop, but then the bloke unwittingly looked down to see where his brake pedal was.
It was all a bit of a blur but in that very long one or two seconds the bike went straight past the instructor AND through a hedge behind him.


Fail  :'(