in this video i'm going to be talking about yet another problem for young motorcyclists in the
uk now we get a lot of questions on the channel as to why you don't see me riding motorcycles
in the videos and there's a few reasons for that one because i can't do my license because
in the uk you have to be 60 years old before you can do a motorcycle license and the other reason
is once you do do that motorcycle license you can't actually test ride a motorcycle in the uk
until you're pretty much over 25 so yet again nanny state britain is telling us what to do
now shortly i'm going to be doing my cbt for the second time because it runs out after two
years so i'll be doing that next month and then after that i'm going to be doing my a2
license so that will allow me to ride any bike under that restriction so i thought right let's
inquire to some dealers and find out whether i can do some test rides and then make
reviews from my point of view on those a2 bikes but it turns out you have to be 25 years old to be
able to be insured at any of these dealers or if you're between 21 and 24 they can make an enquiry
and you might be able to get a special insurance to be able to do that but what a ridiculous thing
and now this is not just a problem for someone like me who wants to make videos it's a problem
for anyone under the age of 25 who wants to ride a motorcycle you can't go out to the dealer
and ride it and get a feel for it and think see what you think of it you have to watch videos
like the ones we make to find out what it's like to ride and that's not ideal i mean it's great
we can give you a good idea but it's nice to feel it for yourself and that's something you can't do
in this country now this time last year we did a video discussing the licensing laws in the uk
and we've had hundreds of comments on that video people saying how they think it should be some
very few people agree with how it is now but it is a system that's designed to stop young people from
riding motorcycles they've taken away that freedom from young people so even if you had a dream of
riding a motorcycle you can't do it you have to wait until you're 24 or if you want to go through
the system if you've got enough money because it costs 600 pounds to do your tests each three times
you'll have to do it and obviously not everyone's got 600 pounds lying around to just do their test
and if you fail that test you're going to have to pay another 600 pounds to do it again
if you do your car license at 17 it costs about 45 pounds to do the actual test and obviously your
learning is like 200 quid it depends how many lessons you want
so what a joke that it costs that much to do your license it's just purely to stop young people
riding
so we've had some big ideas for the future of our channel
and some great ideas that we can incorporate into the channel and we don't want to get rid
of our traditional um review style of me and the old man we'll still be doing those
but we have some ideas i can't go into yet as to what we will be doing but one of those ideas was
of course for me to test ride everything under the a2 license and do videos on that myself
but obviously we can't do that because of the insurance and whatever that i've just talked about
but i can obviously get a motorcycle myself if i buy one that's under the a2 restriction
i was thinking about harley davidson iron and then i thought well actually you can get a street bob
and do that as well so that would be an option of course and i did have think about enduro bikes
honda 250 rx i really like but i found out that although it's under the horsepower restriction
the power to weight ratio is far too high to be on the a2 license so that's out of the question
but let me know in the comments below what you think what bike should i get and what would you
like to see on the channel now i think my mind's swaying more towards a street bob or a soft tail
standard with an a2 kit of course and i could do plenty of videos with that bike customizing it
going for cool rides going to different places more vloggy type videos um so let me know if
that's something you'd want to see on the channel now there is a change coming soon hopefully to the
a2 license rules that you'll be able to do it on a 250cc motorcycle and that's great
for someone who only wants to ride something that is a 250cc like a bullet v bob or whatever
something that's a little bit less powerful it doesn't mean you have to do your tests on
something a little bit more powerful maybe a little bit more out of your comfort zone
so that would definitely be good for some people but i don't think we'll ever see a
change back to how it used to be where you could just do one test and then you could
ride any bike that you like obviously insurance and money depending but that's a good enough
restriction in my eyes when you buy a car if you're 17 you've passed your test technically
if you want you can go and buy a lamborghini but no one's got the money to do that and if they did
they'd have to spend a hundred thousand pounds on insurance so that stops people from doing that
but in this world you you can't do the same on a bike you have to wait and go through all the
stupid system and uh i will apologize for how ranty this video is i'm very upset about this
so the earliest you could ride a bike like this the heritage classic something of a big capacity
lots of torque lots of power would be 21 years old that's ensuring that you've done your a2 license
at 19 and then two years later you can do your a license at 21 and then that would allow you
to ride something like this but vast majority of people can't be bothered because they don't want
to spend in total one and a half thousand pounds doing all their tests and then waste their money
on bikes that they don't really want because they want something bigger so they just wait until
they're 24 years old and then they do their full license and now what this means is that people who
haven't really got any riding experience are going out there doing their tests and getting straight
on something that's quite big quite powerful and in my eyes that's more dangerous than a gradual
progression which is what they really want supposedly i think they just want to stop you
from riding all together and it kind of defeats the object so i just don't think the system is
right
enough with the rants today i will apologize if this video is too negative for you but on the side
of reviews we've got some new bikes coming soon um there's been a little bit of a delay
in getting press spikes um just the manufacturers haven't got them in yet and the dealerships
aren't getting um demo bikes until sort of april when they can open to the public
which makes sense what's the point in them having a fleet of bikes that aren't going to get ridden
because of the covered restrictions so soon enough we will have some new reviews for you
so make sure you stay tuned for that thanks very much for watching this video and listening to me
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