Congratulations! And now please say after me: "All the gear, all the time!"
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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Oh don't worry! I will never go ride without my gear.
And thank you!
It's a Kawasaki ER-6n from 2015. I'm quite enjoying it so far, for as long as the good weather lasts.
SWEET!
Cheers! I'm quite happy with it.
Jesus that's quite a first motorcycle. In the UK you have to ride a 125 until you pass an extra test. Although I suppose there are certain "intensive training programmes" where you can ride the school's bike until you get your A-license and then buy your own afterwards.
Ah, I see. I did take classes though. Those are mandatory in Belgium.
We're only limited by your age. I'm 35, so I was allowed to go for my full A licence from the get-go.
I learnt to ride on the school's Z650.
Haha I always love Europeans take on Americans first motorcycle!
I'm not American though. I'm from Belgium, but I'm 35 so I immediately went for my full A licence which allows me to ride any motorcycle.
The way I got my full A was.. interesting.
So, in Italy (where I'm from) they changed the law two months before I got my B licence, in 1991.
Before then, a B would allow you to drive any bike, whereas after the change you had to take a written and driving test for the first A (125cc I believe?) then another for 600cc etc.
Long story short, I couldn't drive bikes above 50cc with my B.
Fast forward many years, I moved to the UK, converted my B to its British version, stayed there 12 years, then moved back to Italy and made the conversion again.
I didn't pay any attention to it, until a couple of years later when I walked to a shop to buy a scooter.
They needed a copy of my licence, so I picked it up, turned it around and noticed that it included the A as well.
"Hold on a second, what can I drive with this?"
"The guy has and look and went "EVERYTHING", so I said to forget about the scooter and bought my first bike instead:)
Basically someone at the licence office fucked up when they converted from British to Italian, I never took any test. Oh well.
Oh damn. What a rollercoaster that was. :D
Oh damn nice! I didn't even know that was an option!
Yeah, the way it works around here is that every licence is age-limited. So you can get an A1 at 18, which allows you to ride a 125. A2 at 20, which allows you to ride up to 35kw I believe, and full A at 24 (or 22, and owner of an A2 licence for 2 years).
Is this just for Belgium or all of Europe?
How new is this? Was this reformed after brexit?
35kw is a very strange limitation I wonder how they came to that number.
It is generally standardised across Europe as far as I know, although the age limits can differ across countries.
No idea when this was introduced as I never really looked into it. And I don't really know why they chose 35kw either, but they had to draw the line somewhere, I suppose. :)
Very nice congratulations
Thank you!
Congrats! May you ride forever!
Thank you!
Great first bike! Have fun and stay safe. Take your MSF course!
Thank you!
And I'm not from the US, so I had mandatory classes. :)
As makes sense