CBT test for a 16 year old

I know it is a long time since most of us have done the CBT and some will have never had the need to do it but i have a question.
My 16 year old who has never ridden a bike before did his CBT today and the whole thing lasted 3.5 hrs from start to finish. I thought it was supposed to be a full day (it was when i did it) so how can someone who has never ridden a bike before be safe to go on public roads after such a short amount of time?
What are your thoughts and experiences? Should i be complaining?

I used to live in France and I took the BSR (similar to the CBT, allows you to ride a 50cc bike on the road but over there you can do so at 14) and that consisted of a short classroom session on road safety then an hour (or 2, I can't remember it that well) on the road and that was it, we were unleashed on public roads. I obviously wasn't complaining but I do agree that it doesn't seem like a good idea letting someone go on the road alone after such a short amount of time under instruction.
That must just be how it is though

[timwilky]

My daughter did a cbt go see if she would like the idea of riding a bike. I approved. Any training is better than none. My twin brother fell off on his 2 laps of the block but still passed.

Things did improve. Until they changed the rules again and again. One day there will be no new bikers

[Littlepeahead]

Out of interest, were most of the other people on the course refreshing theirs after 3 years rather than first time riders? Or car drivers?

When I did mine as part of my DAS I was done in a couple of hours. Although I hadn't ridden a bike for 10 years clearly I hadn't forgotten how to, and I'm a car driver.

A couple of youngsters on the course had never driven a car or ridden a bike before, they got a whole day.

Maybe if everyone else on the course had a lot of on the road experience and your son is road savvy they felt he didn't need more.

There was only one other person on the course I don't know about their experience though. Maybe it is just my fatherly concern and I'm just being daft.

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My son is quite road savvy though.

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I share your concerns, I only did my CBT 4 years ago, I was there from 9am till 3:30 ish, only cos the other lad fell off his bike so we came back early. I passed but didn't feel it was adequate training.

My sister is talking about doing hers and I know I wouldnt let her out alone until I had done some accompanying rides with her, with radios etc.

[ophic]

Many teenagers "graduate" from pushbike to motorbike. How much training do you need for a pushbike? none at all.

[Bibio]

its Compulsory Basic Training. they are not teaching you to ride a bike they are teaching you how to control a bike to a point they consider you to be safe on the road without further instruction.

your lad must have show that he was competent to be let loose out on the public roads. yes the training says a day and some people take the whole day and more to get to a point where the instructors deem them fit to be out on public roads. be glad they decided that he never needed more training, i know i would but i would also be taking him out for a day and seeing for myself.

i personally think that the mod1 should be part of the cbt. i dont know if it still applies but years ago if you never passed your test within the 3 years you were banned for a year.

i still think its unfair that bike riders have to go through such stringent and multi tests when car drivers have no such restrictions. make the car learners do a mod1 and such as well. if you had the money a 17 year old car driver just passed their test could jump straight into a high powered sports car with only a basic level of driving skill.

I agree with what your saying bibio but I won't be able to hack a full day at 29mph, I will be accompanying him though on some shorter rides and keeping a very close eye on him.

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