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How much driving did you do when 16/17? I found the transition really easy but I drove a lot beforehand and only needed a couple of hours 1:1 to pass the test.
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As a current old age learner (37) I'd just like to back up what everyone's saying about cycling helping with learning. As you know everyone drives like a cunt in town and my instructor was surprised by how unfazed i was by it but when you have 800 daily near death experiences on your bike being in a car feels like a pensioners cruise by comparison.
As for the amount of time you'll need, I had about 20 hours before my test was booked and I'd never driven before in my life but my test was cancelled due to the lockdown and I'm still waiting to have it rebooked (they only started rebooking from the 15th of this month). Just bear that in mind when you're taking your lessons, you might have to wait a long time to even book your test as the backlog is apparently massive, even more pressure to pass first time!
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Aroogah
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As an ex instructor I'd say they're generally pretty good. Doing an hour or so at a time wastes a lot of lesson time getting back into the swing of things. A full week of stuff can be quite intense though, if you've got the time then I reckon do it kinda semi intensive, about 4 hours a day, stop in the middle of that and have a ten or fifteen minute chill out, maybe a couple of 5 minute breaks around the other hour marks as there's a lot of concentration needed and you'll make better progress after a few minutes out of the car. Knowing how to ride a bike around gives you a big advantage in regards to knowing how roads works and predicting traffic, main bits to learn are how a car works and making your observations and checking mirrors at the right time, can practice that on the bike too for free, ride around, pretend you're in your sick whip, and think about which mirrors you'll be checking approaching lights and junctions and when, and do a little look towards them, mainly up and left often, with a look left or right thrown in when turning or changing lane, normal turning your head to look around fits in with that pretty well. You'll probably be looking at about 30 hours of in car instruction as an average minimum.