I've been posting in someone else's thread thinking it was mine (for which I am sorry)! I know what I am doing now - I bet you are all interested! When I pass the driving assessment telephone interview ( for driving on the road no longer counts) and get my license back by apologising for the accident and agreeing that the Police and courts were all wrong and it was my fault really and they were right to suspend my driving license, I am going to get a car first. I've got a horrible feeling, based upon my experience, that I won't get motorbike license back without a further fight. As they can't stop me from driving a car if I pass the driving assessment (although I believe it is a "fix" and am not 100% sure that I will pass. Well, I know that I will, but the DVLA will put their spin on it and will do anything that they can to still refuse to return my license) the plan is to get a Ford car from one of three local Ford dealers. That first and if I do get compensation money and a motorbike license (I'm not holding my breath, for either) I will get a KTM Duke 890 R from Fowlers. No new Ducatis for they don't do anything for me, as there pricing is wrong (I think) with the KTM 890 Duke R nearly 4k less than the Supersport S with more power, lighter and just lacking the fairing, but also with top suspension (WP Apex) and no stupid desmo servicing (a system that Ducati themselves have discredited). I'll part-ex (or offer for sale here) the ST2 and then decide what to do with the ST3. I'll do a desmo check on that and get back into riding it. If I still like it then I'll keep it and if I don't, I'll part-ex it for a Triumph (with shaft drive) or a BMW, like my mate's, driven by a rubber band rather than a chain.
That is the one that I'd get if I go that route! A mate has one and he tours on that. He ran out of petrol once when he wanted to demonstrate its economy by not filling up when I did on my S4r Monster. He wanted to show that it could go twice as far as the Monster. He failed!
I've just had a call from the Driving & Mobility Centre. He got London Grammar at full blast, coz I couldn't find the remote. Of course, as usual, I went and switched off the music player and their was the remote right in front of me! Turns out that I am wrong. The telephone interview is with a nurse to get to the bottom of my medical condition. Nothing to do with driving. I am encouraged to go out with a driving instructor to have a practice rather than have to wait for the assessment. He called because my sol has been in touch already (dunno why) and they wanted to check that I am happy for them to pass on anything.
Is it legal for you to go out with an instructor & practise whilst your license is suspended? I certainly don't want to rain on your parade, but I'd hate for you to get into any trouble whilst you are trying to get your license reinstated.
I’m no professional in this department, but I’d say deffo, and it would be very slack of the instructor not to want to see you have a license beforehand.
I have a provisional driving license that the DVLA sent me. Only lasts til the end of August and I told that to the guy who rang me up. He's made a note and will try and get the assessment done by then. I spoke to the chap about having a practice with a driving instructor and he was well up for it!. He said that the DVLA sent me the license now, without a firm date for the assessment, for precisely the reason that I want to use it for. Anyway, I know longer give a fock about legality. Didn't do me any good.
The instructor will need to as he will also be liable and could lose his training licence as well as having a knock on to his own driving licence. You may have been granted a provisional, but have you been gifted a cbt etc? If not, then you will have to potter around on a 125 and complete a cbt before any larger bike work would be legal.
How very curious and interesting. It sounds frankly bizarre to me that you are suspended temporarily from driving by DVLA yet still allowed to drive in some form. Good luck with it though!
Out of curiosity is it medically suspended or disqualified? Either way, I'm not sure you can ride or drive. Thinking of who would either give you insurance or a business insure you on their bike or in their car. Sure you've done your homework, but as above, seems a bit odd. All the best.
It all came about because I was stupid and honest. I told the DVLA that I had a brain bleed when I was knocked off my bike. That woke the sleeping giant and they said that I would have to do a driving assessment - the fact that this all happened on a motorbike is irrelevant for I have to PROVE that I can drive a car. I could get arsy about it, but if I did the assessment on a motorbike then I would certainly not be allowed to drive a car anymore - work that one out! If I do the assessment in a car then it may, or may not., mean that I can ride bikes - the DVLA won't commit themselves, although I am very confused on how I could pass the driving assessment in a car and the DVLA say that I can go back to driving a car but not riding a motorbike! Anyway, as part of my bang on the head, I used to see double. I spent a lot of time a Cheltenham Hospital having my eyes checked and their conclusion was that there is nothing wrong with my eyes but they think that the brain bleed fecked up the optic nerve connections to my brain. Part of the driving assessment is an eye test and when I told DVLA about this and the first eye test that I did at my local optician where the optician said, "You must not drive" after cancelling my driving assessment last year, I was sent to Specsavers who have the DVLA contract for eyesight tests. I've done about four. Specsavers are not allowed to give you the result but they send it to the DVLA Medical Group and they pontificate over it. I kept failing but I passed the last one that I did although the DVLA never told me so, but the driving assessment guy that rang me up today, said that I did pass but the DVLA don't like to share. So, now I am in the queue to do the driving assessment in Bristol. To do this assessment, that involves driving on a public road, the DVLA have to give me a provisional license and that means that I can drive on L-plates. Before all of this crap, I wasn't going to bother get a car - when I was in hospital, money was going out on my account with me earning nothing. I got very overdrawn and the Halifax stopped paying out standing orders and direct debits. I repaid the feckers by moving banks! My brother told me that as I have made more than so many payments (I can't remember the exact number) I could just give the car back and the hassle would stop as they would not pursue me for any more payments. So, the car went back to Mitsubishi and they stopped hassling me. The car was a Mirage and it was sh1t, anyway, and I don't miss it. Now that the DVLA are being evasive about restoring my motorcycle categories, I thought, "Feck it! I'll get a car!" If I pass the assessment (which I hope that I do) the DVLA can't stop me driving a car, whatever the tricks that they have planned after I do the assessment to stop me riding a bike. So my thinking is that I take some driving lesson to make sure I am up to speed with driving a car, do the assessment and then, if I pass, get a car because the DVLA will not be able to stop me driving. After the assessment, if I pass, then I'll wait to here what other tricks that he DVLA have planned but they will have restore my car license.
