{"id":3610,"date":"2019-04-22T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2019-02-05T11:20:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T11:20:05","slug":"can-you-use-an-electric-bike-for-your-motorcycle-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/can-you-use-an-electric-bike-for-your-motorcycle-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you use an electric bike for your motorcycle test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Electric scooters and motorbikes<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Electric motorcycles and mopeds must have the same engine power as the petrol version and must be able to maintain that power for at least 30 minutes. You will fail your test if your electric motorbike runs out of power during the test.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>These bikes must be approved for use in the UK and have a current WoF.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3730\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3730\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3730\" src=\"http:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-scooter-600x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-scooter-600x536.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-scooter-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-scooter-768x686.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-scooter.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Electric scooter<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><b>Electric bikes<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/electric-bikes-an-alternative-to-a-motorbike-before-you-are-16\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">electric mountain bikes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have a similar power rating to scooters (i.e. around 4kW) and can even look a bit like motorbikes but as they are not road registered and cannot be legally ridden on the road, you are not permitted to use them when taking your motorbike test.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3731\" src=\"http:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-pushbike-600x405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-pushbike-600x405.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-pushbike-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-pushbike-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/electric-pushbike.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/highway-code\/motorbike\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">motorbike theory test<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the same, regardless of whether you ride a petrol-powered motorbike or an electric motorbike.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric scooters and motorbikes Electric motorcycles and mopeds must have the same engine power as the petrol version and must be able to maintain that power for at least 30 minutes. You will fail your test if your electric motorbike<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/can-you-use-an-electric-bike-for-your-motorcycle-test\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[328,10],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-motorbike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}