Hurlabrick

Yep - been there got the T-shirt! I think you are looking on the dark side a bit. All you need to do is the theory test (but DO study first), then a weekend course for $600-ish playing around with cones and you have a licence good for 5 years. I have done this and it is no big deal.

Yes. If you went back to the UK, you would not be 'converting' your Ontario licence, you would be reinstating your UK licence, so all your UK ratings come back into play.

Aviator

If you did all of these to be able to ride a MC in Ontario, it was a waste of time. Why would Ontario care about what you spent or did in the UK?

When we came over, we had to do road tests for all licenses. It was no big deal. The riding in here is spectacular. Fly over it and ride through it (not at the same time), there are no better ways to see the provinces.

Former Lancastrian

On the other hand someone who passed their driving test say in Manitoba in an automatic and spent all the expense on lessons, practice, theory and tests and has held a full licence for years now moves to the UK and can only drive an automatic as they have not passed the manual test.

2 x different countries 2 x sets of rules learn to live with it.

From the DVLA website
You can only drive manual vehicles if you can prove you passed a manual vehicle test - otherwise, you must drive an automatic.

https://www.gov.uk/exchange-foreign-...britain/canada

Siouxie

Don't forget also that you can get 'credited' for previous experience if you can't do a direct exchange (as in Ontario, motorbike) - which reduces the length of time you have to go through the graduated licensing process.

Pizzawheel

Just for the record, if you were to phone up DVLA to try and get a replacement UK license because you lost it (maybe you left it on the counter at a Service Ontario), they would probably say that they know you've exchanged your license for an Ontario one so you no longer qualify....

Hurlabrick

....aside from being illegal in both Canada and the UK to have two current drivers licences for different countries.....

Pizzawheel

Hypothetically it would be illegal yes...

Whilst passing your Ontario test is the obvious answer, I'm not sure you could rent a bike in a third country on a learner/ restricted license. This is what I wanted to do- rent a harley in SF for a small trip inland. I took Amtrac in the end which was great.

But yes, there is a limbo period when you won't have a full license.

​​​​​​(There's also some fun in that I've had my ON bike license for 7 years, to ride a bike I've owned for 29...wut?)

discoviking

No, Quebec doesn't exchange bike licenses either. Only class 5, regular car license. But it's not that difficult to get a bike license in Quebec. It's 3 steps, Knowledge test (written test) first, that give you a permit do drive with a driving school. Then a mandatory 16hour class with a driving school, followed by a closed course test at the SAAQ where you drive around cones etc. That give you a 6A learners license (as long as you take the test on a bike bigger than 400cc), which let you drive any size bike. Only restriction is no driving between midnigt and 5am, no passengers, and zero alcohol. After 11 months you can take the road test and get an unrestricted class 6A. I just got mine last year.