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Query regarding CBT

  • 23-07-2017 4:26pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    I got my motorbike license about 10 years ago way before the CBT was mandatory, I have been away from bikes for a few years but looking at getting a new one. I am applying to renew my learners permit will I have to do the CBT before I can ride?


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  • #2
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,682 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    if you have no license now and can't get your old one back then you'll have to do the IBT


  • #3
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,364 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I got my motorbike license about 10 years ago way before the CBT was mandatory, I have been away from bikes for a few years but looking at getting a new one. I am applying to renew my learners permit will I have to do the CBT before I can ride?

    Just to be clear as you may be using the term 'licence' and 'learner permit' interchangeably - if you got a motorbike "licence" in the past and it has been expired for longer than 10 years, you are indeed starting from scratch having to get a learner permit and take IBT but you it's possible you don't have to get a theory test dependon whether you took a theory test for a car and when that would have happened.

    If you held a learner permit (or provisional licence - same thing effectively) and that has expired "about 10 years ago" or anything in excess of 5 years - it's the same thing - you may be exempt from the theory test but you will have to do the remainder of the elements.

    Assuming you are in the latter category, yes, you must take IBT before you ride solo - the learner permit is issued to you in advance of taking IBT under a registered instructor in order for you to receive the training. Once the training is complete, you can ride solo.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
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    cantdecide wrote: »
    Just to be clear as you may be using the term 'licence' and 'learner permit' interchangeably - if you got a motorbike "licence" in the past and it has been expired for longer than 10 years, you are indeed starting from scratch having to get a learner permit and take IBT but you it's possible you don't have to get a theory test dependon whether you took a theory test for a car and when that would have happened.

    If you held a learner permit (or provisional licence - same thing effectively) and that has expired "about 10 years ago" or anything in excess of 5 years - it's the same thing - you may be exempt from the theory test but you will have to do the remainder of the elements.

    Assuming you are in the latter category, yes, you must take IBT before you ride solo - the learner permit is issued to you in advance of taking IBT under a registered instructor in order for you to receive the training. Once the training is complete, you can ride solo.
    I got my learners permit in 2009. I had the one learners permit with a stamp for car/bike but when I got my full car license they took my learners permit, so I don't have a motorbike learners permit at the moment but its just a matter of applying for it and getting my old one renewed.

    I thought because I got my learners permit before the IBT was compulsory I might be exempt, in the same way that if you got your car learners permit before the mandatory 12 lessons come into effect you were exempt from doing them.


  • #5
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,364 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Well, if you're certain about the dates, no matter what way you carve it, in your case, you're starting over- your previous permit would have be renewable until last year but now you'll be starting over and IBT will be mandatory. If you took a the separate car and bike theory tests, you will also have to repeat the theory test for the bike.


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