@mbpaz @SeaFury @dHeinemann same here. The issue is that it probably costs ~ £1000 (or €1000, I think the exchange rate is roughly 1:1) for the five days of training to pass A2, then many (not all) riding schools will want you to pay again and go through the whole thing again for the A licence. Wouldn't be so much of an issue if it was easier to use your own bike
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New blog post: Be Seen on your Motorcycle@mbpaz @SeaFury @dHeinemann having said that, we do have "Direct Access", which means that if you're over 24 years old you can train for and take the full A licence directly without having to do A1 or A2 first. So it's mostly a discouragement to younger people who might want to take up motorcycling -
New blog post: Be Seen on your Motorcycle@mbpaz @dHeinemann @SeaFury that's interesting that you have the transition path from A2 to A. In the UK, to get an unrestricted A licence you have to do exactly the same tests (module 1, offroad slow riding/skills;/module 2: road ride) as you did for A2 but now on a bike with more than 47bhp.
You can't ride a bike with more than 47 bhp *before* you pass the A test, so you can't even ride to the examination (unless you ride a restricted bike there and remove the restrictor in the examination centre car park, but even then it's challenging to get insurance) unless you're riding under the supervision of an instructor. Gets expensive.
Its a bit of a mess and we usually blame it on the EU, so I'm rather amused that other countries in the EU don't have this silliness -
@vroom It's scary how the A pillars can completely obscure narrow objects like motorcycles, but looming and motion camouflage are new to me.@dHeinemann the inability to see through A pillars is one of the things that makes me (perversely and illogically) feel safer on two wheels than four, because i can see all round me at junctions.