Hello,
My name is Eric. I am a student coming to study abroad in September until December and am most excited about seeing a lot of bikes in London. More than anything I want to have a chance to ride as well as meet some fellow enthusiasts while I am there. I will be living in South Kensington for the entire semester. Anyone looking for someone to ride one of their bikes with them? or how about just renting it out to me so I can get my license and be able to ride a bit. I love meeting new people and don’t want to do all of that BS tourist stuff that most Americans come to do. I would much rather get to know the culture and think it would be amazing to start in the biker community. I look forward to meeting some of you in the near future! I know I could use a bit of teaching about true motorbiking. It just isn’t the same in the U.S… I look forward to being lucky enough to meet some of you in the near future! If you don’t have a bike to share I really don’t care. You can never talk about your baby too much anyways.
We have a different system over here for insuring/taxing/owning a vehicle etc…
Seeing as you’re here for four months it might be worth buying a bike if you can afford it (http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/form/usedbikes)
There are loads of bikes for sale in London. When/if you buy one it will already be ‘plated’, you just need to fill in a form to transfer ownership.
Get a bike with tax and mot until jan 2012 and all you’ll have to worry about is insurance, you can get a month by month policy but insuring a bike in london is bloody pricey
I am actually studying through the federation for international education. I don’t believe it is a school that students from London would study at. I think they only teach students who are coming from other schools.