How long should it take realisticly to complete the IBT?

Yeh, Tony is sound! He was following me during the road section and gave me some really helpful tips on riding position and posture...

They have an opening before Christmas:

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You can drive a trike on a car license if you have one.

yes, but you still need an IBT

They obviously want you to slow down, practice & get the IBT when you're ready for it... You are not safe to be allowed onto the roads. Do you have access to a private space and a bike that you can practice in safety? TBH, I think its a good thing they are holding you back for the moment. To me it sounds like you've done an entire IBT weekend, then an additional day & are lined up for more... What do you expect from them? You need to get yourself to a stage where you can safely ride on the roads, with confidence and not be in a state where you are pulling at the brakes or dropping the bike... This is up to you to get control of & it seems that the instructors are being supportive.

Sorry, I did get the posts mixed up... I still believe the OP needs to get some practice in whatever way they can.

@goblin59

I've done several solo cross european trails since on my bikes and goen from knowing nothing about bikes to rebuilding and fine tuning vintage motorcycles xD

Someday when i have time, space and money i'd love to do that type of stuff. I know enough about bikes and cars to know that i know NOWHERE near enough to do self maintenence... which is something i feel embarrassed about when i meet up with lads on a spin.

I did mine spread over a decent time span. Price was normal for full thing same as if I'd done it over a weekend. The 2 classroom bits were each a separate weekday evening, and then the on bike part was spread over 4 weekend days over a decent time.

I'd to do more than the 18 or whatever as with all the stopping and starting as I spent a little each time in yard to refamiliarize myself after time off the bike so didn't have enough on road.

The extra time was all road at the end and that was extra but very cheap (like me asking are you sure cheap).

Just on this bit

"They said I would have to come back to do more before getting out on the road."

Do you mean to get the cert or did you only do yard time, how much time were you on the road during the training.

I rememeber that thread. He was very **** you attitude. Didn't care he was putting others at risk and had no insurance

Depends on when you got it. It must have Class A with code 79.03.

No you can't unless you got the car licence before Oct 2006. You will need to have Class AM on the licence.

OP what is the trike, it sounds very odd indeed? Is it type approved? has it been registered? Whether two or three wheels, if it can't break 50 km/h you are going to get run off the road sooner or later, a 50cc or anything similar isn't safer but is a liability on modern roads.

Trikes cunningly combine the disadvantages of a car with the disadvantages of a motorbike 😁

I did see an interesting one at a rally years ago though, a Mini power unit mounted (transversely, natch) at the rear instead of the usual VW stuff or GoldWing.

My wife has class A 79.03 on her licence. She's never ridden a motorcycle or trike of any description.

The whole "passing a test in class X gets you class Y but we don't put that on the licence" thing is gone. Your licence will now (or will, when you renew it) explicitly say what categories you got "for free" and what the restrictions on them are.

Cue lots of people with 79.03 thinking they got a free motorcycle licence... but in the end doing it this way is a lot more sensible and can accommodate weird stuff like people who exchanged UK car licences which allowed them to ride A1 motorcycles but only up to 12hp.

Congrats ! ride safe !

Can you send a link to the bike ?

I was originally going for A then figured out I don't want to have to ride a 50 Kw bike to pass A test so going with A2 on the Tmax 500 and then get A through progressive access 2 years after I pass the test and in fairness the max power on A2 is 35 Kw and that's still a lot of poke on 2 wheels.

I don't know how I missed it, never saw one before but reminds me of the Renault Twizzy.

Twizzy was too expensive and range too limited and recharge times far too long and the batteries had to be leased.

It's a pity they didn't develop it further but it's hard to put a larger battery in a package so small this is why Auto manufacturers are focusing more on making cars larger and larger so they can fit in more battery but our roads and car parks are not designed for these cars.

One reason Motorbikes and Scooters are limited in range is due to their size, Zero make probably the best electric motorbikes out there but are handicapped by 70 miles range max to even lower if you're hard on the throttle, I built high powered electric bicycles years ago and the torque is nuts, people will love them but the penalty is range and recharge times + cost, I think currently Zero offer a 2 hr charge time with optional "fast charger" And they have limited max power ability or boost.

I'm happy with the Tmax 500 for now, can't wait to get it back, it's quite powerful.

I just looked up the specs, didn't realise it's electric :-)

I bet the locals nearly fall over looking at that passing hahaha,

You should be able to mod it for more power and speed, if it really is 1 Kw that's not much power at all.

I was running 10 Kw peak through one of the rear hub motors on my bike. In small packs LiPo batteries are king but you got to know how to handle them, they are not safe if abused lol. That and a new beefier controller, possibly higher voltage motor and you'll be flying around.

Further looking into the specs the system is actually 2 kw 72 volt and 45 ah battery, but uses Lead acid ? wow, WTF ? well the lead acid would have to go and upgrade to LiPo :-)

were there no Lithium options ? if those batteries are not deep cycle batteries they'll probably have a very short life.

Might be worth a thread in the ev section ?

That was clever getting the lithium, no I wouldn't connect the two of them in Parallel due to the BMS without them Specifically mentioning whether or not they can be connected in parallel , I looked them up and it doesn't mention it.but if you got the 2 in there it would effectively double your range, worst case just put the 2 in and swap over the connectors when one runs low.

No you shouldn't need anything like this, just make sure if you do connect them in parallel that they are both fully charged, you don't want to connect batteries of different voltages.

Also, Lithium has higher voltage when fully charged than Lead acid so you need to make sure the battery when hot off the charger doesn't exceed this max voltage.

Yes I was aware getting the Tmax but suppose I just wanted to get used to bikes, balance and all and twist and go is a lot easier starting off. It's pretty nippy too.

The idea was that if I pass the test and have the license 2 years I can get A through progressive access which will allow me ride the NC750 DCT. Or I could just stick with the maxi scooters.

Are the honda cubs considered automatic and could I ride one on auto license ?

I did my IBT with Eric in mid-August (it was unbelievably hot in all the protective clothing!). It took the full two days, with the afternoon of the second day devoted to a ride out to Trim and back. No problems whatsoever, and I even got a 4-month wait before eligibility for applying for a test, but, admittedly, I have been driving 4-wheel vehicles of various sizes for over 50 years, and I did have motorcycles between the ages of 17 and 27, though without a full licence.

I found the tuition I received was excellent and if I had been told that I needed to come back for more I would have taken that judgement at face value.