I think sawtel had a thread a little while ago ?
yup!
not really knowing what you know, but its all out there on the net.. but heres a quick run down.
LEARNERS
you get your "learners" now, this is possible to be done as just a test, the learners test involves a practical riding test, which is riding between two lines, around a corner and maybe a stop, cant really remember, but its pretty damn easy! and there is a written/multi choice question test, its not so much road rules, its more hazard prevention, from memory, questions like, "here is a car, its in the left lane, you are riding right next to them, should you be here?"
all VERY easy, but pretty confusing.. you pretty much wont fail.
you may have noticed i said it was a "test" only, technicaly this is true (ask vic roads), but try to find someone, or a company that will let you just do the test, ... you cant i tried! they all want you to do atleast the days course, which varies place to place, but roughly 170-200 for a weekday, and 250-280 for a weekend.
i did mine at stay upright.
once you have got that, you must keep that for 3 months, then you can go and do your full liscence. which is technicaly your P's.
FULL LISCENCE
this is a full prac test, and easy as piss, you literaly cant fail, unless you have never riden a bike before, and even then it would be hard, unless you dropped the bike 4 times going around 2 corners and stopping a couple times!!
it involves a "light box" which has a stop light, and an indicator either side, you ride at it, at about 20kms/h, a light flashes and you do that as well as you can (swerve left, right, stop).. there is markings on the road, and depending on your speed it says how wide/quick you should have swerved/stopped, and what you did, minus one from the other and thats your points. impossible to fail.
The other is ride around a corner as fast as you can within the lines.. you get points for how long it takes, with a max of 8 points (a stack). your allowed to get 40 points for the test!
once again, according to vic roads its only a "test", but in real life, no one will let you just do the test.
i did mine at HART.. would have done it at stay upright, but i almost got done by the stupid rule of, once your learners expire, you have to re do your learners, and that is 13-14 months, and they dont send you a warning its a fuckin stupid system!!! i didnt want, or need my P's/fulls, but i only had 5 days left before i lost my learners! and hart was the only place that had a spot left..
in regards to your fulls, it gets a bit weird when your on your car P's,...
i know your on red P's, so ill explain best i can.
you get your learners, after 3 months,.
do your fulls, you then have to ride with a red p plate if you are on your red P liscence (if your on full liscence no plate), for 12 months.
then you can ride what ever bike you want, but if your on your car p's, its still called your moto P's and have to display a plate (even through your not restricted)..
as you can tell, im really fuckin bored!
