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Those taking motorbike lessons in London will need to do so without the prospect of being able to use bus lanes, following a Department of Transport U-turn.

Whilst there are a lot of differences between motorbikes and cars, many engineering designs that work with four wheels get quite unusual when applied to two.

Typically, the best way to make a bike-friendly to newcomers is to make it consistent enough that riders can be easily taught on it. Honda thought differently.

Visitors to a festival of vintage cars and motorbikes might be inspired to take a motorcycle course in London as they discover Britain’s rich biking heritage.

Autumn can be a picturesque season, but those seeking Thurrock motorcycle training courses, should be aware of the perils of being on the road in this season.

There are already some very good reasons to take motorbike lessons in London, not least when it comes to costs - and another one may be about to arise.

At one point considered the motorcycle of the future the Suzuki B-King was a fascinating head-turning concept which ultimately lived up to none of its promises.

There is an assumption that anyone who is learning at a motorcycle driving school will be riding a bike with a manual gearbox. This means that as part of their learning and development, they will not only have to learn the basic mechanics of riding and the rules of the road but also how to manage the unintuitive mechanics of a clutch and sequential gearbox . This is also true with cars, but whilst a growing proportion of four-wheeled vehicles are either automatics or have no gearboxes at all due to the rise in electric vehicles, very few motorcycles are the same, which might be the result of one of the most ambitious failures in recent motorbike history. In the late 2000s, the biggest motorcycle manufacturer in the world had a bold new idea to change the industry forever; Honda wanted to bring automatic gearboxes to two wheels. Whilst Yamaha and Aprilla had automatic bikes as well, Honda had an ambitious plan. Known as the Human Friendly Transmission , Honda had developed a continuous variable transmission (CVT) system that used a novel hydrostatic drive rather than the belt-driven systems commonly associated with scooters. This meant that they could develop a CVT system that could act like a manual gearbox, and to showcase the system in the best possible light Honda developed the DN-01 , which was a mix between a scooter, a cruiser and a sportbike. It was positioned as a jack-of-all-trades, and like most bikes that try to do too much at once, it ended up being a master of none of them It was too heavy to be a sportbike, too uncomfortable for long rides to be a cruiser, and lacked the storage to be truly effective as a scooter, with a load capacity of just 147kg. Whilst it could have potentially found a market in between the extremes, the asking price of over £10,000 was far too much to convince too many buyers and it was discontinued within two years.

The summer is a great time to head out on the road after finishing your motorcycle training so here are tips on what gear to wear to be comfortable in the heat.