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Old 18 Apr 07, 09:25 PM   #18 (permalink)
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David,
My better half did here CBT and Direct Access in Taunton only with TSM (I did mine there as well but a few years earlier). Just a word of advice though mate, dont be tempted to buy a bike before she's passed and if she does do her test on a 125 and gets a restricted licence then its not the end of the world (my mates missus did that got a restricted 600 monster and came to Le Mans with us for the GP). Oh by the way if she does get a restricted licence there is no other test, its just a two year limit on the licence after two years she can ride whatever she likes. However if she want to take the restictors off before the two years are up she wil have to take another test.
What Tracy (the owner of TSM) recommemded after Kersty failed twice was that although Kersty had her own Hornet 600 she should do the 125 (restricted) test and bugger me she passed straight away, not because she was any better but that male examiners have a preconception that small women on big bikes are dangerous and tend to fail more than they pass.......
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