Ok, so I passed my test on an automatic, which means I have an auto-only license, limited to 33bhp for two years. I can also ride a manual 125 with L plates without ever needing to do a CBT again.
If say three years from now I do a manual test on a 125, will I be limited to 33bhp for another two years for manual bikes? Or will I be able to do the manual test on a 125 and then ride any bike straight away (since I’ve done my two year wait, albeit with the auto license)?
-simon
As soon as you can, do your DAS and be done with it… HTH 
hmmm thats a tough one!
i’d like to say na you’d be able to ride anything but knowing the barmy law over here i bet they would restrict you again.
When I did the DAS the other guy doing his Mod1 turned up on an Aprilla Mana 850 Automatic.
Even though he’d had his automatic license for 20 years he would have had to wait the two years again if he did the test on the 125. So he was doing the DAS.
My advice would be to do the DAS as soon as you can.
OK, that’s quite clear then. I will do the DAS…as soon as I want to ride a manual bike ;-). No point doing it before, since it gives instant access!
Many thanks,
-simon
True, sometimes I think I’d be better off on a manual bike especially in london.
Why the hell would you do an auto licence anyway? Surely common sense would be to do a manual licence and if you want an automatic motorcycle get one. Then you’d have the freedom to ride whatever you want.
Because I already own an auto bike, and it only cost me £90 to do it? If I wanted to do it on a manual bike, I’d have had to either buy a second bike or hire one to practise one and then do the test, or go to a school and pay for a course. That would be significantly more expensive.
Actually there’s a benefit for manual bikes too - I can now ride a manual 125 with L plates for the rest of my life without ever having to do a CBT again 
-simon
Sounds like the best thing you could do.
