Tell use about your motorbike test

[Mrg]

hi

well i am not going to say the year,but hear goes

i took my bike test on a Yamaha DT 50   i no i no but we all start some were

so arrived at the test center booked in. a test guy come out calls my name and go up to him and he tells me to go outside,next to my bike.

he then asked me 5 highway code questions to witch i told him the right answer , so all good

he then informed me to start the bike and to ride the bike out of the center take a left then go straight over the mini roundabout 
round it not over it .....
straight on up to the lights turn left , to the next set of lights left turn , and he would be down the road were he would step out in front of me to conduct the emergency stop .... so off i went did all the above he stepped out 200 yrds from me .
so i geared down and stopped lol i know
he then said carry onto the center by turning left at the bottom of the hill and right into the test center ,, i did this and when he came back to the center ,he said well done you have passed your test     wot can i say 

how was your lads

     

[VladTepes]

You've read Mrs Vlad's I assume....

[Mrg]

ohhh yes she had a hell of a day

[KiwiCol]

Ya know what?   I can't even remember doing it!!   I know I have as I've got it on my license, but I just can't remember it at all.   No I'm not pissed either, hell, Can't remember taking my car test come to think of it. 


I can remember getting my first car on the same day though, a 2 year old Hillman Avenger, dark blue with white vinyl seats, and having to drive out of the car yard & immediately have to do a handbrake start at a railway crossing.


Any of you guys so old and f**ked (as I am) ya can't remember your test?


Hell, who are you?    What am I doing here?


Meds!!  More Meds!!

[VladTepes]

Yeah all I can remember about mine was that the first test seemed to go really well, and the guy failed me.
He said 'Motorcycles are dangerous so I fail everyone first time".
What a prick eh. Cost a poor student more $$$ to do a second test.... which I passed no worries.

[Ktmjunkie]

passed my test in the 70s same thing, examiner on foot while i do a figure of 8 around the block and he steps out into the road for you to do your emergency stop. mad really  :onya:but hey i passed.done my test on a 250cc honda then went out and got a Triumph Triton.who would have thought that 40 years later I would pass my IAM advanced which was a little bit more involved.

[Proteous]

Unlike some of you guys the dinosaurs were dead when i took my test si o can still remember it..
Mine is actually quite a long story but i wont go into all the details..

It was a pretty normal but very cold UK Febuary.. We set off (Examinar too as he had a bike also... ) we were riding along, me, doing as im told (to perfection of coarse) then all of a sudden my engine cuts out (it was a Kwak 500) i dip the clutch, indicate, and coast in the the kirb.. just past one of those stupid pedestrian chicane. Im sat there srying to figure out why in gods name this stupid thing has died.. Now, something you need to know about UK tests back then is IF the examiner has to get off his bike when he is not scheduled to do so, it was a fail.. So, the examiner is in my ear "are you OK?" "Do you need me to have a look?" "Want me to come help?" I am shaking my head frantically and gesturing him to stay there (one way radio).. Im shecking the kill switch, the side stand everything.. Then for no reason she decides to fire up again.. YES!! So off we go.. Then guess what the heavens opened, SNOW and not a small ammount, im talking the closest the UK has ever had to a blizzard.. So the examiner turns round and says "OK i think we need to head back, i have seen all i need to." And with that we head back to the test center.. Now with that comment im thinking i have f***ed it up and i have failed...
So we are in his office he asks me take a seat and he pulls out a chair puts his papers down and sits directly opposite me, but VERY close... (My instructor is in the room at this point) And this is where i heard the words that changed my life.. "Mr Glenn, i have been an examiner for 35 years this year and in all my years i have never seen such a perfectly executed test. And i mean perfect. When your bike cut out you were controled, calm and manouvered that bike with skill. You are a credit to your instructor and to yourself."

Well im telling you now.. when someone says that to you, your head grows!! in fact i dont think it fully shrunk since that day...

So i was forged in fire as har as riding in bad weather goes.

[grog]

september 1972. had just done 12 mths on learner plates. ariel 500 red hunter was my bike. amazing machine. had to go to cop shop, he just stood and watched me go up the road, turn around and drive past, turn again, back to copper and park. easy stuff. problem. ariel had no indicators. couldnt do test on it. my old man borrowed a suzuki 350 off a copper mate of his. id never ridden it. t350 rebel i think was its model. not used to 2 stroke lack of low rev grunt, stalled it 3 times. next attempt, lots more revs and off i go, other side of road, front wheel 2 foot off the ground. cop never said a word, got my licence. just how it happened. not long after bought a 250 hustler, still one of best ive owned.

[Cykik]

Failed #1 (speeding), failed #2 (best not go there). Passed #3 then got a Buell..

[froudy]

Passed my test first attempt in 1978. Simple really back then compared to nowadays.
The only thing I remember is the emergency stop..Examiner stepped out in front of me and smacked his pad..I stopped fine but stalled. I thought thats it..FAIL.
As I re started and moved off in the correct manner it was all good and I passed.

Passed on my RD250DX which I'd only had for a week

[Proteous]

Lol thats the year after i was born!!

[lawrie]

1963, test day, I was on a 250 Greeves twin, examiner tells me to go round the block & as I come back this way, he'll hide in the 'crowd' then step out in front of me  to test my emergency-stop, OKEYDOKEY, so off I trots, a couple of mins later, I turn the corner to find the street blocked with people & standing traffic, then as I filter through, I see the examiner laid out on the ground along side an identical bike to mine, the dipstick had jumped out into the path of another guy who'd not been expecting it.

I passed by the way!!

[Batkwaka]

1984, failed first time for bad hill start and not stopping for a pedestrian crossing (I was rather nervous).
I passed the second time but travelling down the Wharf road in Bunbury the Police Assessor stopped me and said "I'll go up ahead a bit, start coming up to speed and do an emergency stop". He rode up ahead and as he was stopping I took off, he must have caught his boot on something because the whole bike and rider fell over into the roadside gravel.
He didn't say a word and neither did I, we rode back to the licensing yard and he signed me off. A very happy day for me.

[Basil Brush]

March '82. Cold dismal day. Round the block like others...

Training getting bike? A year earlier. Off to car park across road. Once I'd mastered gears and the art of stopping. That was it.

Oh - it was on a Honda CB100N. Sorry.

[Kiwifruit]

Back in 1974 we had the Ministry of Transport and the Police. The MOT did the road policing. 
So I ring the MOT to do my bike license and they give me a time and date. I say I can't do it then because its two days before I'm 15. Then i get a time and date two days after my 15th birthday.
We had a paper of 25 multiple choice questions and five oral questions, which I passed so then its ride time.
The Traffic Cop was on a 650 Triumph and I was on a Kawasaki 250 F11 trail bike. Off we go around the block, couple of sets of traffic lights, I stalled at the second set. So I think bugger that's a fail. Anyway get back to station I have to do an emergency stop and then he says do some figure 8's for me. So I stand up on the foot pegs and do real slow figure 8's. (Dad was first privateer one year in the Scottish 6 Days Trial) so he'd taught me how to do slow figure 8's.
Traffic Cop says OK smart arse you pass. So at 15 years and two days I had my bike license and could take pillions.
Yahoo !!