My friend is Greek. I have been nagging him to get his CBT and DAS course done before September.
Anyway he tells me he is looking to get his license on a small island in Greece that his mum lives on.
He says he needs to do a small test to identify parts of the bike. Then 5 x 1.5hrs instruction and that’s it.
Can this be true?
I thought we were getting these super test centres as part of a European wide “thing”.
Pfft… I exchanged my Cypriot licence for a British one (my car licence, that is). My original test consisted of driving in a straight line for quite a while, followed by going all the way round a roundabout and back to the test centre, then parking nose in, in a straight in parking space.
Bike licences used to consist of passing if you got there on your own manual bike in one piece. I think things may have changed a bit now, but not much 
The one big difference is that you have to be ordinarily domiciled in Cyprus to be able to take the test there… done to keep the riff raff out
To be fair the British test used to be a little like that. You rode round the block and at some point the tester would jump out and wave at you to do an emergency stop. Presumably so long as you, the tester and the bike were still standing at the end of it you passed:)
My father took his bike test in 1959 in the wilds of North Yorkshire…on the day of the test it snowed heavily, so he phoned the test centre to ask if his test was on…the examiner said “If you get your bike here, I’ll test you” - My Dad wobbled off through the lanes, blizzard blowing, and arrived at the test centre looking like a snowman… The examiner asked him for his docs, my Dad handed them over, the tester signed a bit of paper and said “Congratulations, You’ve passed… now be gone it’s cold out here :D”
I didn`t know the greeks had a test for a licence seeing the way they drive or ride there bikes.
This is the greek way of riding
This is the greek way of riding
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dHiSaSm4_Y0[/quote] wow you even had a video camera setup for that poor guy! you must plan these biker down threads right?
in Greece there are two types of licences up to 125cc (CBT?) and all above.
one you have the 125cc license for two years you can then ride anything you want.
unlike here there is no DAS so you are restricted to 125cc for the whole two years.
now to pass the test you:
ride in a straight line, slow and fast, and with a pillion.
do a slalom and a figure 8 and a quick drive outside (much like the CBT again)
ps Greek people drive like the tourists on the Greek islands, but all year round! :w00t:
Hmm… it won’t link me to the vid. It says it links to a malformed video or something :hehe:
Do you need to be resident though to take the test, or could he book, go on holiday and take the test?
he can just go on holiday and pass the test.
they cant prove if he is a resident or not as he could be still living with his mum!! :w00t:
btw which island is he from? must not be a v small one to have a driving school
I did my test in Trinidad which consisted of doing my test on a C90 going around a square giving hand signals :w00t:
then doing two figure of 8’s within cones and errrrrr …that was it
that allowed me to go go and ride a GSXR 1000 :w00t:
I looked at some other other videos of Greek bike crashes, you wont get me driving a bike out there!
