Motorbike Test!

[apprentice87]

Hi All,

Got my module one bike test tomorrow!!!! Just going to try my best.. Have not been on one of them training courses either, so it is a bit like someone that can ride a horse, but has never jumped over anything on one, entering for showjumping and trying to do a clear round first time out. There is a word for it..... let me see..... errr.... Pillock!!! that is the word i was looking for!!!

Going to do it on my GSF600 Suzuki Bandit "S"

I will post a message as to how i get on tomorrow!!! I was hoping that the power of positive energy radiating from loads of electricians might help me, but perhaps not  .[but you never know!!]

Eeeekkkk!!!!!

john...

 

[Sharpend]

Don't forget the pics!!

All the best John.

 

[apprentice87]

I am going to see if i can get my friend to make a video!! Not sure if this is possible though!!

john..

 

[kerching]

Cannyou not just ride the bike with one hand and use the video with the other?

Just radiating positiveness in you general direction

Good luck

.....it would be a different story if it was for a caravn towing course

 

[sprocketflup]

Passed mine first time and I ride like a drunken pig. youll p*ss this john, no worries.

And apparently I like towing pink caravans too

 

[Blue Duck]

Good luck

 

[Apache]

I have my trailer test booked in a month.

Good luck

 

[Sidewinder]

Trailer test?

WTF?

 

[Apache]

Passed my driving test in 2000 so need to sit the B+E to tow a trailer of any reasonable size (legally )

 

[Sharpend]

Passed my driving test in 2000 so need to sit the B+E to tow a trailer of any reasonable size (legally )

I'll bet you've had more than your fair share of practice!

 

[kerching]

I think he has 50% of the practice

His wife has the other half

Just.....cannot think of the correct word

 

[sprocketflup]

Aardvark ^^

 

[NozSpark]

Trailer test?

WTF?

Itb is quite scary, when you look at your license as to what you are allowed to drive after an hour test in a car when you were 17

I too, like many of the older drivers, can tow a trailer with a 7.5ton box van/rigid lorry... But then again I do tow nearly very weekend, our trailer is a 6x4 box with an extended draw bar making it 4.5m long,,, our daughters boat then overhangs the rear by nearly a mater... Other club trailers that I tow, regularly, must be 25 to 30 foot long

 

[apprentice87]

Here are my two bikes;

http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x373/resistance87/MNB40Twobeautifulbikes.jpg

http://i1178.photobucket.com/albums/x373/resistance87/MNB39MyLittleYamahawithmySuzukiBandit.jpg

I am doing my test on the suzuki so i do not have to do it twice, i will end up with an unlimited licence straight away.

I already got a trailer licence, cos i got a class one HGV, well, i did have until i let it run out. Apparently though, all i got to do is have a medical and the DVLA will renew it for me!

john...

 

[Apache]

I'll bet you've had more than your fair share of practice!

I can tow a trailer, there is no issue there. The reversing exercise is quite precise, but I'm not that worried.

I spent a lot of my youth working on farms and so spent many times driving combinations over 10 tonnes. I could back a trailer with a turntable at one point, but I expect I'd be quite rusty.

My incentive for doing it is I may need to tow for work so I should be above board. Will be more fun getting my wife through the course. I'll see how I get on first!

 

[apprentice87]

Hi Apache,

Not sure what is in the trailer test!! I know when i did my HGV you had to reverse round a funny course. It was next to impossible, until you had been shown the way to do it that is, and i do not mean how to drive the thing, you could have been the best lorry driver in the world, you would still have had no chance, it was just tricks to the course if you understand. Once you got it though, we were having reversing races!!

One of the things you had to do was, you had to stop with the back of the trailer in a 3 foot box marked on the ground. Now, how you going to judge this in an artic?? impossible.. They told us; "look in your mirror, look in a straight line past the bulge at the bottom of the rearmost tyre, use this as "sights" When the bulge is aiming at either the front or the back of the box, [cannot remember which now] stop. Lorry is now in right place!!!!!!!

It was just things like that. Was not like learning to reverse the thing, it was tricks like that. If the trailer test has a similar "off road" thing in it, you should try to find out exactly what you have to do, and go and make your own course in some farmers field and have a practice!!!

The lorry broke down on my test and i had to do it all twice!!!

john...

 

[NozSpark]

From what I've heard one of the tests is hitching up... you have to get the ball directly underneath the hitch and then just lower the hitch into place, you fail if you move the trailer to line it up.. even that last 1/2 inch

 

[apprentice87]

Bloody hell!! How you meant to do that?????

john..

 

[apprentice87]

Ok, here we go!!!! tell you what happens soon!!!!!!

john...

 

[roys]

Well John how did it go?  Hope it went well.  I used to ride a Bandit 600 not a bad bike.