Modern day bike tests..................

[everton]

Tough luck Brenda (my missus).

Took her test first thing this morning and failed on one point, which appears to be the most common, putting her foot down during a U turn. Apart from that 5 trivial minors. The examiner set she had excellent road sense and her control was generally spot on apart from the U turn which he sensed (correctly) was down to nerves.

Even apologised for failing her but said he has to stick within the guidlines laid down by HMG & foot down in U turn is an automatic 'serious' & therefore fail!!

What's that malarky all about then?? In my day we went round the block twice trying not to fall off in the emergency stop :lol::lol:

Is it just to test slow control?

I reckon I've done less than half a dozen U turns in 27 years of motorcycling. The last one I did was when Karl & I got lost looking for Ducati Central London and did a U turn in the Kings Road...........which granted is a very wide road :rolleye::rolleye:

Fair play to her.............she's booked for the next/first available in Reading, Swindon, Oxford or Basingstoke.............whichever comes first.

I can phone the TV Police now & say the roads are safe for a while longer (ouch.....she just whacked me :lol: )

So come on...........why's the U turn there in the test??

And who makes regular (necessary) U turns?

Answers please.............there must be a reason..........just interested :puzzled::puzzled:

[Edited on 27-5-2004 by everton]

[Mark]

Because when you took you're test Mal, i mean Dave jack the ripper was still at large................ :lol:

[Mark]

Oh, sorry to hear you failed Brenda, by all standards, you did really well. Did you take the test on the Prilla?

[Eamonn]

Why is there a U turn test ? And why should you keep your feet up ?

If I ever do a U turn (last one I think was 18mths ago), I definitely have feet down ready, it's just common sense isn't it ?

Perhaps you should take your test on a trials bike (feet up, slow speed - no problem) before getting on a normal road bike!

My test (so long ago now.....) consisted of 20 mins traversing a cross-road junction, an emergency stop whilst in 1st gear and arm signals (do they still do those now?). Guess I had it easy...... :D

[DJ Tera]

Why do you need U-turns? So you can turn round and do your favourite road again of course :P

[everton]

Know what you mean DJ........



Why do you need U-turns? So you can turn round and do your favourite road again of course



..............but I like going round in big loops (about 200 miles long) :D:D

[Mark]

What's wrong with doing a doughnut?? :puzzled:

[everton]

DIBBLE................. :puzzled::puzzled::puzzled:

[Mark]

:lol: Well done that man!

Now lies the question, does Dibble do doughnuts?? Makes you wonder where vanilla doughnuts come from................

[everton]

Mark..............ain't you got any work to do??

I'm off to console the missus :smug::smug:

[Mark]

If it ain't enough being sworn at here, then you go and say work!

[Jewell]

unlucky,i never failed on that.

i failed my first test because i didn't automatically move back into the left hand lane,even if i moved back into the right hand lane 100 metres down the lane.:mad::puzzled: