Bout bloody time..

[Banditbandit]

So after 9 months i eventually booked my Restricted for next week after being so god damn lazy, which made me wonder. Did you guys get your R asap or let it sit for a while?

Way back it was a different system ... but I had a learner's bike licence for 18 months before I sat my full licence (Didn't think it wasa good idea to sit a full licence on a Triumph 650 Thunderbird with 12 inch ape hangers ...)

All I had to do back then was pay 50 cents every six months to renew the learner's licence ...

[Banditbandit]

same. I had to demonstrate to the local plod that I could start, stop and turn the bike: he stood outside the cop shop and watched, said "You're an accident waiting to happen" and gave me my licence.

Oddly, that night, I fell off and fucked my knee. Still got the scar 30 years later.

Cor blimey, them were the days, right?

Yeah .. my full licence test was not much better .. rode about 100 yards and the cop signalled me to go back .. I thought "How did I blow it in a hundred yards?" ... we talked bikes for about five minutes and then he wrote out my full licence ...

Much easier then ... I'm pleased it's changed - imagine us back then on the bikes we have now ... we'd not be here ...