I'd like to be riding by October. The motivation is that I'll be spending silly amounts on trains if I'm not. Motorbikes appear to be cheaper & more fun than cars- easy choice really. I applied for my first provisional driving license this evening at the ripe old age of 24.
The most obvious route is CBT -> cheap 125 which I expect to drop/crash at some point. I have an idea that a 125 would be quite dangerous on a motorway, based on it being both light and slow (I'm about 85/90kg) and believe I'd want to be on a bigger bike within a year or so. So the route would be CBT -> cheap 125 -> the accelerated learning thing.
As such, I'm considering direct access. I think the main drawback is being unable to ride around with L plates before passing a test (mod2?), so paying by the hour for practice. Insurance will be higher, initial searches suggest cost of bike is pretty much a wash.
And so, questions. I think I'll need to take the CBT on a 35kW+ bike. Anyone know a place near Bristol I can go to which will provide a not-completely-knackered 35kW bike for me to spend the day on?
Provided I pass that, I think I can just go out and buy an appropriate motorbike. I'll have to work out some way of getting it home, am I right in thinking I can insure it for long enough that a friend can drive it back to Bristol?
Please let me know if my assumptions or reasoning look rubbish, I'm still terribly uninformed at this point. I'm expecting to drop the bigger bike at some point too, though I'll try quite hard not to stack it into a car.
Thank you OcUK
The most obvious route is CBT -> cheap 125 which I expect to drop/crash at some point. I have an idea that a 125 would be quite dangerous on a motorway, based on it being both light and slow (I'm about 85/90kg) and believe I'd want to be on a bigger bike within a year or so. So the route would be CBT -> cheap 125 -> the accelerated learning thing.
As such, I'm considering direct access. I think the main drawback is being unable to ride around with L plates before passing a test (mod2?), so paying by the hour for practice. Insurance will be higher, initial searches suggest cost of bike is pretty much a wash.
And so, questions. I think I'll need to take the CBT on a 35kW+ bike. Anyone know a place near Bristol I can go to which will provide a not-completely-knackered 35kW bike for me to spend the day on?
Provided I pass that, I think I can just go out and buy an appropriate motorbike. I'll have to work out some way of getting it home, am I right in thinking I can insure it for long enough that a friend can drive it back to Bristol?
Please let me know if my assumptions or reasoning look rubbish, I'm still terribly uninformed at this point. I'm expecting to drop the bigger bike at some point too, though I'll try quite hard not to stack it into a car.
Thank you OcUK