Raccoon

Thanks for the insight, I just needed that bit of reassurance that my progression path of choice wasn't completely pointless, appreciate ya.

I believe I'm posting this in the correct place, if not I apologise in advance. I've been learning the process of getting a motorcycle license and find that CBT and the way it works to be quite confusing, something about it doesnt sit right with me. The idea that I can safely ride by myself after reading the highway code and doing 6-8 hours of basic training with only 2 hours of that being on road practice fills me with anxiety. A bit of background, I've never driven a car or rode a motorbike and roads intimidate me greatly, I'm a slow learner and quite honestly think I must have some form of learning difficulty. My reason for this post is I would like some opinions on how I'd like to go about eventually taking my CBT and whether or not it seems like a good route to take. Since I don't feel I'd be able to confidently ride by myself or understand how roads work with such little training I'm thinking about getting actual driving lessons beforehand simply so I can get sufficient practice on the roads and so I can go into the CBT as a confident road user. Maybe it's dumb since I'm learning to drive a car and I have no interest in getting a car, but the time on the road and the hours of hands on practice with an instructor seems beneficial. Has anyone heard of someone who has done this before ? Am I being stupid ? Or does this seem logical perhaps in some weird way ?

Thanks for the advice you guys. It's nice being welcomed by a friendly community, I appreciate it. I'll take what you said to heart, whilst I don't currently have a functional push bike I feel that if I continue the research I'm doing and keep reading the books I bought things will start to make sense. My issue is that I overthink and try to understand everything at once then I get brain fog, I guess I just need to slow down. Downloading a theory test app sounds like a good idea, ill finish reading my books first I will watch a few videos on how to use roads aswell. I suppose I won't really know if I've learnt enough until I get to that stage in compulsory basic training where I have the 2 hour road ride, reading and researching is all well and good but until I actually put it into practice I won't actually know how much of that information I've retained. I hope to learn on a geared bike I agree based of what I've heard that's it's best to go geared from the get go, but since I've never been on anything other than a push bike I don't know how I will take to it, we shall see. So to recap I'll continue my research, books, videos and apps then I'll book a try ride and after a pre-cbt then I'll tackle the cbt if I don't get my certificate I'll just keep applying until I do and after that building my skills on the road is up to me just buy a 125 and start practicing until I feel confident enough to take my tests, does that sound like a sensible progression path ? Once again thanks to all of you for taking time out of your day to give me some advice.

Hi, I hope I'm posting this in the correct place I apologise in advance for the way this is composed. I really want to take my CBT but am unsure if I will be able to since I know nothing about how to use roads, is it even possible for someone to ride a motorcycle on uk roads by just reading the highway code and passing a CBT ? I'm researching so much to do with bikes and appropriate apparel along with the highway code etc and it's making my head spin it seems quite complicated, maybe I'm just stupid lol that is most likely the case. What I'm trying to ask is can I become a road user just through learning the highway code and passing a CBT do you get taught how to ride on the road during the training ? I've never had driving lessons or a car so yeah.. I'm completely clueless. If the above mentioned is not enough to learn how to ride on roads then what else do I need ? Or is it just a case of highway code + Cbt then hope for the best, get a 125 and practice ?