At the moment, getting a full motorcycle licence is a complex procedure, varying depending on age and potentially requiring multiple practical tests.

**This petition is for people that have restricted licences and want to upgrade to DAS** Instead of doing mod1 and mod2 again, riders could take more training – at least seven hours of it – after which they’d be upgraded to a full licence without further testing.

If you’re over 24, it’s simple enough – you can do a direct-access course and test to be able to ride unrestricted powerful bikes. But for younger riders (the ones that are surely key to the future of motorcycling) there are more hoops to jump through and expenses to bear. To get an unrestricted licence they need to first get an A2 licence (via training and a test) limiting them to a sub-47hp bike. They then need to wait two years before taking anotherpractical test to gain a full ‘category A’ licence.

The planned change would be the introduction of second ‘Progressive Access’ training course as an alternative to this second practical test. European legislation, which imposes the ‘A2’ licence category, already allows for this route.

- bennetts