I got my Motorcycle's drivers license at 16 years old.
I learned on a Honda CB 350. The exam took exactly 3 minutes tops.
A freezing January, temperatures below 32F, the inspector keen on testing candidates in heated cars. I was the sole aspiring motorcyclist that day.
He asked me to go up the street, changing gears, make a U turn without putting my foot on the ground, come back gear down and stop at his level.
That was it. I was legally entitled to purchase a Kawasaki H2, or a Honda CB 750! sorry; back then, the Moto Guzzi California was not on my list...
Since then,