MrSix said:Yes it is....much...much more difficult.
On your CBT you ride around some cones, do a long theory lesson, do some more riding round cones, then go out on the road for an hour, come back get your book stamped and you're off.
If they made it a 2 day course where you're shown videos of crashes, safety advice and all the rest of it, along with lots of practice, more road riding AND a test at the end, it would create much safer riders.
I was thinking more in comparison to the car test which you could do without the lessons if you so felt and jump into a V8 monster. The "capped" nature of the vehicles that the CBT entails is a good plan I would say. The CBT is basically a test plus a bit of a lesson, you could quite easily do a similar amount of time in a car before a test.
The direct access I thought was very good for full license, but it was two or three full days of manouvers and riding plus the test itself on the Friday.
I spent a longer amount of time on the road on the bike than I ever did in a car doing lessons. Two days of equating to 14 hours riding compared to 6x1 hour car lessons.