Thanks again I sent a message to the email you gave me.

The last letter I got from the DVLA had a copy of all my emails and an explanation why they weren’t able to help.

To be fair I am so fed up of it now I’ve put it down as a lost cause.

Still maybe a miracle will happen who knows.

I’ll update you if anything occurs.

All the best

I honestly feel like giving up to be fair this has been going on now since September last year, the replies are always generally very slow and unfavorable.

I wouldn’t mind but I have a clean record with them I drive all week long over 2000 miles a week with work and have had a full UK licence since 95. Which they still don’t answer when I ask for a copy of my car test pass seeing as their records are impervious.

I’ve only really been back into biking since 2010, frankly the 125 was dangerously slow on main roads, they say its a safety thing perhaps they should try accelerating away from a lorry towering over you on a 125!!!

If I honestly felt I couldn’t control the bike safely I’ve bought I’d have no interest in being on it. The last thing I need is ending up hurting myself or anyone else.

If they want me to retrain and retest because its a larger bike and I haven’t been on a 250cc now since 99 then fair enough but I thought that was the point of me doing a training course again to update my skills.

Just because its a bigger bike the speed limit is still 70 in this country it just gets there quicker. I personally would have thought also a lot more stable than a pencil wheeled 2 stroke buzzing machine.

If they want it redone on the other hand because they can’t find it surely they should atleast help pay towards it?

Is it honestly fair we go through all this hassle doing things correctly when people ride about illegally and couldn’t care less and others go abroad on a UK car licence and ride any bike they want without even doing any training?

I think one of my friends grandparents has been riding over 50 odd years he says he can’t remember ever going through any of this, he bought a bike and off he went.

I honestly think it would be simpler to move abroad get a new job and an entirely new life than it would to get anywhere with the DVLA in this country. I think its all a very sad state of affairs and I’m fully tired of.

How can one person win against an entire industry who won’t listen to anyone but themselves…

answer…

they can’t because they bury you in legislation and proof which they know damn well is very unlikely you’ve ever taken copies of at that nieve age. My only hope is one day somebody shuts the idiots down and lets the smurfs run it, they might just do a better job.

I have copies of all letters and would be happy to forward them to anyone willing to fight the DVLA over this. They have beaten me into submission because although I now have code 01 removed from my license, it has taken a year, many letters, an opthalmologist appointment and a DSA eyesight test to do it. I still have not been told, despite numerous requests, how code 01 got there in the first place!