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The End Of The Motorcycle As We Know It? - Rallyist - 08-06-2012
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/Drive...nsing/DG_201206
The End Of The Motorcycle As We Know It? - stu - 08-06-2012
Why 'the end...' ? I'd say most buyers of bikes are over 24 already.
The End Of The Motorcycle As We Know It? - iand1947 - 08-06-2012
Decent trikes seem to have been targeted as risk equivalent to bigger bikes - maybe even more so in that there's no age dispensation? Not clear about transference of bike experience to trikes? Sounds like ignorance and/or bigotry? Will be interesting to see the NABD response, if any...... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif[/img]
The End Of The Motorcycle As We Know It? - Studley Ramrod - 08-06-2012
Be nice to know the reasoning behind the changes. (European origin ?)
The mokeyboike changes seem reasonable to me. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif[/img]
The End Of The Motorcycle As We Know It? - LDRider - 08-06-2012
Not a bad idea if you ask me. Here, at age 15.5, you can go out with $12k and buy a Yamaha R1 race edition that goes about 180 MPH. Now maybe there are folks that young that can responsibly ride one of those, but realistically, it's kind of like handing a kid an uzi - they don't have the judgement, experience, or self control for that sort of bike. I have several friends with dead brothers from exactly that sort of deal.
The End Of The Motorcycle As We Know It? - ChrisG - 09-06-2012
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I thought most of the accident statistics were "born again" bikers who do the direct access and buy a powerful bike. Upping the age from 21 to 24 won't make a big difference there I'd have thought. for a 17 year old having to do an A1 test, then an A2 test 2 years later, then an A test two years after that sounds like it could get expensive.
The End Of The Motorcycle As We Know It? - Studley Ramrod - 09-06-2012
The bike licence tests are already a mess, I heard that numbers applying for it have halved in the past 2 yrs.
I wudda thought the price for a 21yr old to insure an R1, if they could even buy insurance at all, would already stop most from owning one.