Easiest country to get a full motorcycle license in?

dpp v mcgee

Any thoughts?

foggy_lad

dpp v mcgee wrote: »

Any thoughts?

India

AgileMyth

Its quite easy here. Its just expensive takes some time. The actual test is laughably simple.

Max Headroom

Legally or illegally..??........;)

Gosub

Gibraltar. It just can't get much easier.

Wonda-Boy

Mongolia

Suasdaguna1

AgileMyth wrote: »

Its quite easy here. Its just expensive takes some time. The actual test is laughably simple.

It wouldn't call the test laughable simple. I did my A Licence recently......failed the first time over road positioning and not enough life saver looks.

It's a game imo and they have a certain criteria they want to see you play. On my 2nd test I was like a mongoose re head movement.....it was a ridiculous role play but I know where they are coming.

Anyone thinks they are in for an easy ride pardon the pun will be sorely mistaken. I went back biking after an extended period and it was bloody hard work.......know your rules of the road backwards as they'll ask you this in detail....screw up here the test begins on the back foot.

Wonda-Boy

IMHO,

There is a massive difference in riding a bike and riding a bike properly.

dpp v mcgee

Suasdaguna1 wrote: »

It wouldn't call the test laughable simple. I did my A Licence recently......failed the first time over road positioning and not enough life saver looks.

It's a game imo and they have a certain criteria they want to see you play. On my 2nd test I was like a mongoose re head movement.....it was a ridiculous role play but I know where they are coming.

Anyone thinks they are in for an easy ride pardon the pun will be sorely mistaken. I went back biking after an extended period and it was bloody hard work.......know your rules of the road backwards as they'll ask you this in detail....screw up here the test begins on the back foot.

I want to avoid the annoyance of having to sit it again. I see it more of money racket than anything else.
I am heading to Vietnam for a couple of months backpacking and Im gona try and get a full license there so I will have it when I come back.

CJhaughey

dpp v mcgee wrote: »

I want to avoid the annoyance of having to sit it again. I see it more of money racket than anything else.
I am heading to Vietnam for a couple of months backpacking and Im gona try and get a full license there so I will have it when I come back.

Vietnamese license are not exchangeable here.
only the following countries can be exchanged.

• Australia
• Gibraltar
• Guernsey
• Isle of Man
• Japan
• Jersey
• South Africa
• South Korea
• Switzerland
• New Zealand*
• Taiwan*

Gosub

In Gibraltar the tester stands on the footpath and you drive round the block and past him. If you can't pass that one you shouldn't drive anything... ever.

minidazzler

Gosub wrote: »

In Gibraltar the tester stands on the footpath and you drive round the block and past him. If you can't pass that one you shouldn't drive anything... ever.

I'm going to Gibralter to do my full licence test then :pac: Would be cheaper than doing a pre-test and test here :v

Gosub

No matter what country you do the test in, I'd imagine you would need a local address.

paddy147

CJhaughey wrote: »

Vietnamese license are not exchangeable here.
only the following countries can be exchanged.

• Australia
• Gibraltar
• Guernsey
• Isle of Man
• Japan
• Jersey
• South Africa
• South Korea
• Switzerland
• New Zealand*
• Taiwan*

6th gear full revs and flat out so.:pac::D

Del2005

Suasdaguna1 wrote: »

It wouldn't call the test laughable simple. I did my A Licence recently......failed the first time over road positioning and not enough life saver looks.

It's a game imo and they have a certain criteria they want to see you play. On my 2nd test I was like a mongoose re head movement.....it was a ridiculous role play but I know where they are coming.

It's not laughable simple but it's not very hard. There's no motorway, night or wet road training/testing required.

Suasdaguna1 wrote: »

Anyone thinks they are in for an easy ride pardon the pun will be sorely mistaken. I went back biking after an extended period and it was bloody hard work.......know your rules of the road backwards as they'll ask you this in detail....screw up here the test begins on the back foot.

Could you imagine needing to know the rules of the road when you want to use the road. Unless you're very good at reading gibberish the ROTR are the best option to avoid getting into trouble when using the roads.

Gosub wrote: »

No matter what country you do the test in, I'd imagine you would need a local address.

The fact that some, the UK, requires you to provide proof of residency makes it even more fun.

The Diddakoi

Gosub wrote: »

In Gibraltar the tester stands on the footpath and you drive round the block and past him. If you can't pass that one you shouldn't drive anything... ever.

Took my bike test here in 2003, apart from the tester following me for 1 lap in his car, that was the Irish test

Faith+1

alf66 wrote: »

Took my bike test here in 2003, apart from the tester following me for 1 lap in his car, that was the Irish test

Bit different know me thinks! In fact doesn't the examiner follow you on a bike now?

Wonda-Boy

Faith+1 wrote: »

Bit different know me thinks! In fact doesn't the examiner follow you on a bike now?

Depends on the county you do it in....they are trying to get it in but I did mine in Navan and was some old lad in a Toyota Carolla :rolleyes:

serious3

in ballina he was in a jeep! that was 2mths ago

Del2005

Faith+1 wrote: »

Bit different know me thinks! In fact doesn't the examiner follow you on a bike now?

Once they've the radio it doesn't matter if they are on a bike or in a car. If you loose the car they'll make you pull over unlike when my brother did his test years ago, he lost the car pulling out of the centre for the right loop and the same for the left loop and was waiting in the centre for the testers for a few minutes after each loop.

Faith+1

Del2005 wrote: »

Once they've the radio it doesn't matter if they are on a bike or in a car. If you loose the car they'll make you pull over unlike when my brother did his test years ago, he lost the car pulling out of the centre for the right loop and the same for the left loop and was waiting in the centre for the testers for a few minutes after each loop.

Well i did my test last year and the examiner was in a car. All I'm saying is that my instructor told me the examiners were switching to bikes? Also if you look at the new RSA videos you'll see the examiner on a bike? Ah well :pac:

Cuddlesworth

You can't actually fail on the rules of the road section.

Aside from that, its a laughably easy test like the car exam. A driving license is a certification of basic competency, that's all.

BaronVon

Faith+1 wrote: »

Well i did my test last year and the examiner was in a car. All I'm saying is that my instructor told me the examiners were switching to bikes? Also if you look at the new RSA videos you'll see the examiner on a bike? Ah well :pac:

Yeah, they've a load of Mayo reg'd BMW bikes that the testers use. I saw them training on them, but there was only about 14 bikes, so there's probably not enough for one in every test centre

biko

I understand your frustration of failing the test first time but "money racket" and going somewhere else (particularly SE Asia or India) for a week's course and test, and hoping to exchange the licence for an Irish one isn't going to work.

I suppose you're in the pale somewhere? There has to be a school there you'll be more comfortable with. Good luck on your next test.

galwaytt

biko wrote: »

I understand your frustration of failing the test first time but "money racket" and going somewhere else (particularly SE Asia or India) for a week's course and test, and hoping to exchange the licence for an Irish one isn't going to work.

I suppose you're in the pale somewhere? There has to be a school there you'll be more comfortable with. Good luck on your next test.

Lol, if he's in the Pale, he probably thinks the RSA HQ in Mayo IS in SE Asia !! :pac: :pac:

dpp v mcgee

biko wrote: »

I understand your frustration of failing the test first time but "money racket" and going somewhere else (particularly SE Asia or India) for a week's course and test, and hoping to exchange the licence for an Irish one isn't going to work.

I suppose you're in the pale somewhere? There has to be a school there you'll be more comfortable with. Good luck on your next test.

I didn't actually take the test yet but I'm assuming that's what would happen.

flyton5

I did the test in Tallaght a little over two years ago. It was handy enough in that I didn't do any lessons(got my provisional before all that lark) and still passed but I wouldn't say it was ridiculously easy. I got most of the info on what to expect here and on biker.ie. Few tips:

Unlike the car test, the bike one still covers an emergency stop. Accelerate to 60 and then brake hard without locking up.

The u-turn is a case of pull in and complete it without putting your foot down or connecting with the kerb. Trick here is to look over your shoulder to where you want to go. Bike will turn much easier than if you're looking straight ahead.

Dan Jaman

I see the IoM on that list.
First time I was over there, about 17, to see the TT, I didn't take my provisional licence with me, as I didn't think I'd need it. There was a bike hire shop down near the harbour and they told me to nip into the Post Office, get an IoM provisional licence across the counter and they'd hire me a bike.
A quid or two later, I was sorted out

Del2005

Dan Jaman wrote: »

I see the IoM on that list.
First time I was over there, about 17, to see the TT, I didn't take my provisional licence with me, as I didn't think I'd need it. There was a bike hire shop down near the harbour and they told me to nip into the Post Office, get an IoM provisional licence across the counter and they'd hire me a bike.
A quid or two later, I was sorted out

Not any more. If you go back long enough you didn't have to do a test here, my Father never sat a test just went into the barracks and signed a from to have all catergories.

Faith+1

Del2005 wrote: »

Not any more. If you go back long enough you didn't have to do a test here, my Father never sat a test just went into the barracks and signed a from to have all catergories.

Those were the days!:pac:

Cuddlesworth

Del2005 wrote: »

Not any more. If you go back long enough you didn't have to do a test here, my Father never sat a test just went into the barracks and signed a from to have all catergories.

My uncle 15 years ago sent in his renewal for his B license and ticked all the boxes. He can now drive a truck with trailers it would seem.

Del2005

Faith+1 wrote: »

Those were the days!:pac:

Yeah it cost me €000s to get the same.

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

My uncle 15 years ago sent in his renewal for his B license and ticked all the boxes. He can now drive a truck with trailers it would seem.

If he was renewing a licence from that era he may have EC1 by default. But I'm sure plenty of people have lost categories or gained due to mistakes.

Faith+1

Del2005 wrote: »

Yeah it cost me €000s to get the same.



If he was renewing a licence from that era he may have EC1 by default. But I'm sure plenty of people have lost categories or gained due to mistakes.

You and me both. I'd say the A, B and C cost me around 4,500!:eek:

Cuddlesworth

Del2005 wrote: »

If he was renewing a licence from that era he may have EC1 by default. But I'm sure plenty of people have lost categories or gained due to mistakes.

Nope, he sent in his license with a B only, ticked all the boxes and received a license with everything. Believes he can now drive everything as well.

Del2005

Faith+1 wrote: »

You and me both. I'd say the A, B and C cost me around 4,500!:eek:

I'm afraid to calculate how much it cost me, I'd kept making a mess of the tests.

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Nope, he sent in his license with a B only, ticked all the boxes and received a license with everything. Believes he can now drive everything as well.

He'll get a shock the 1st time he gets into an artic:D

kadman

20 years ago i did my test here.
Started at the roundabout, and 3 90 degree clockwise loops at the first junction, and back to the roundabout.
Then anti clockwise on the same route. Drive the bike at walking speed, and 1 u turn. test over:D

So I have been fully qualified to drive around in circles ever since:P

kadman