Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Stupid examiners!!!

[kwikbitch]

Thought this was funny.....

A young lad who was taking his motorcycle driving test for the first time. He had gone through all the various sections of the test and was left with just the emergency stop to do.

The examiner asked him to drive round the block several times and said that he would step out into the road at one point and the boy would have to stop sharply -- the expectation was that the would have to keep the motorcycle in a straight line and upright.

Well, off round the block went the boy. However, he was delayed for a while as a delivery lorry was blocking the road. As he turned the final corner to drive down to where the driving examiner had been, he was surprised to see an ambulance and the examiner being placed on a stretcher. What had happened was the examiner had made rather an error. He had stepped out in front of the wrong motorcycle and the driver, not expecting this, had been knocked down.

[Felix]

What a tw@t!

[Phil Butler]

I don't know when that happened but exactly the same thing took place years ago when we had our first bikes. One of our mates nicknamed "Beatnik" was taking his test on a Vespa 125, as he came round the block we were we cheering him on, he waved to us as he was making the turn and promptly dropped it. we put him back on the scoot and walked round the rest of the block to see how he got on. that's when we saw the examiner on the deck and a big bloke about to leather him for knocking him off his scooter which was pale blue the same as Beatniks, as you guessed that was back in the mid 60s I'm still riding but Beatnik knocked his girlfriend up and sold his scoot to pay for the ring......he's probably still paying.....poor old git

[Jonathan Novice]

Did he pass ??

[Monty]

I well remember that, took my test in 1965 on a Francis Barnet 250 twin which had excellent brakes. Guy stepped out in front of me for the emergency stop and I stopped. I got it back into 3rd gear by the time I got to him-methinks he had had one or two close shaves with bikes with crappy brakes.

John

[Phil Butler]

Yeah Beatnik (Graham) passed, but the examiners signature was all but illegible on the pink slip.... I wonder why?.
I don't think the examiner dared fail him after making a pillock of himself, mind you we were all chuffed cos' he failed one of my mates the previous Thursday so we reckoned there was a god after all!!!

[Road Runner]

Is that a true story

[kwikbitch]

Allegedly!