Lara Platman takes a humorous look at the benefits of acquiring a motorbike licence It has been a while since I have been on a date and wondered what ingenious ways I could conjure up to acquire one. I remembered when I was riding a twist and go Vespa Scooter in London years ago I would quite easily meet people at traffic lights, so with this in mind I set to gaining my full motorbike licence and decided this might be a jolly good idea indeed – not to mention travelling by motorbike has a plethora of benefits which I will go into more detail in a minute. My new adventure would be with the Honda School of Motorcycling in collaboration with the Get On scheme on a geared motorbike firstly with a CB125F then after passing the CBT I would move on to an NC750S, which although this does sound fast it actually is sort of equivalent to a 500cc. (for info on the Irish Motorcycle test). So after indeed passing the CBT, with well, with ease, and passing the theory exam, with, well with ease, I moved onto the NC750S, which at first was daunting, it seemed so much bigger and how would it move off from parking? I suppose I find an aeroplane taking off daunting and never wish to sit at the back in case I get dragged along the floor without the pilot noticing, alas, it did move off with me on it and my car park practice proved quite a breeze. I did perhaps stop without my rear brake once or twice and the bike did start to tipple however, on the whole, my figures of eight were quite a delight once I had to learnt to lean to the right – one of those aeroplane dilemmas again – surely I would just tip like a cow? Whilst gravity still plays havoc in my mind, I passed the Mod One exam in a large car park (completing an exercise of 6 components – emergency stop, avoidance, slalom, figure of eight, parking, U-turn), the only thing to do next would be my Mod Two: riding on the roads section of the exam and put all this bike control to test with the highway code and living things… and fast things moving around you. All...