SolidFish

Hello aw members!

I've posted on here a few weeks ago about possibly moving to the bay area. Well the job offer went well and my family and I made the move from Colorado. We're near the Sunnyvale area.

I was hoping to ask a CA question. I wanted to go and get my motorcycle license while creating the driver's license. I only had a permit in Colorado. DMV is asking I take the motorcycle course. Does anyone know of a good (and affordable) place to take this near Sunnyvale? btw, DMV is horrible here, took us 5 hours to get registered...

Any members work near the Moffet field area here?

Thanks and look forward to meeting the members here.

John

stealthwagon

Hi John,

Depends how old you are. I believe the course is mandatory if you're under 21. I'm way over that and I just got my motorcycle license (because my wife decided to buy a bike ;-)

I was in and out in 15min taking the written test (25 questions) then I took an appointment for the driving test (very low speed slalom and circle test), spent almost 2 hours for a 5min test. And that was it.
No motorcycle course required.

However, my wife who never rode a bike before took the safety course from http://www.bikesmartmct.com/ and it waved her the riding test at DMV. She just took the written test and got a M1 license in exchange for her certificate from BikeSmart...

Good luck!
Rich
PS: BTW, we've all moved to dubdubdub dot quattroworld dot com