I bought my 125 in March and took my CBT. I’m not a kid so have plenty of road experience. I don’t commute on a bike, I use it purely for pleasure, so when it’s dry and nice out. I’ve done 600 miles on it locally and four longer trips into city centres. Practiced with hill starts, emergency stops, silly mistakes, but thankfully hit nothing and not come off. But in that 600 miles I’ve wanted to progress for better journeys but I feel limited because I’m holding up traffic off from the lights and when on a dual carriageway I’m screaming the nuts off the bike so I don’t have cars up my arse, I worry I’ll wreck the engine or worse. So......erm....I guess this is how it goes, I bought another bike, a 650cc, I cannot ride it yet of course but I could not wait any longer, I’ve taken it out just on my private road which is 100 yds long, but I’ve felt the throb between my legs and I cannot wait to pass my test and go out and be up to 40 and still only be in 3rd gear, instead of working like mad through all 5 gears to get the 30...... Get a 500 -650 cc would be my input The only thing stopping me not getting the full licence currently is money, plain and simple, it’s a couple of rather expensive days, much more so if you fail and have to retake, it’s another £175 just to retake here, extortion but hey, nothing you can enjoy is cheap it seems today