I didnt Fail my test today...

[dodsi]

...But i didnt pass it neither!

The storey begins at just 6:30am when our hero awakens from his nightly slumber and makes his way to the kettle for a pit stop.
Then the hour of 6:45 arrives and he is out of the door and away on his galliant (iron) horse to the land of the test centre. Where the evil wrath of the wind and examiner stop our hero from completing his quest for glory and 33hp.

Ok on a more serious note my test got cancelled because of wind today which got me thinking i ride in most weather (except snow/ice) and the wind wasnt THAT bad so why could my test not go ahead? isnt it down too us to deal with the weather conditions?
So I am a little cheesed off about this situation as i have to wait nearly a month for another test .

But the flip side of the coin is it means that if i got a serious fault i could use the wind as an excuse in a court of law against the examiner who could have made a "unfair decision)".

[Bendy]

Pah. Brave knights laugh in the face of wind!

Damn the examiner. Damn his eyes, damn his britches and damn his duckpond!

[Frost]

If i were the examiner i would havepulled you over explained that the wind was picking up and given you two choices:

Call the test off for the time being and retake it another time
Continue as normal, with you not allowed to use the wind as an excuse in the event of a fault Dangerous, serious or minor.

I can't really justify calling off a test part way through without consulting the other person. yes the conditions may be bad, and getting worse but i think ultimatly it is up to the person sitting the test to decide if the conditions are serious enough to effect the outcome of the test.

[dodsi]

No me and my instructer made our way too the test center where we met the examiner who said that the test was off BEFORE i began.

[pokie]

can u let me know what the cbt consist of , just got a new bike

[Wave2k]

i done my test when it was pissing down, the examinter got annoying cos we sat in traffic for 10mins
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[Peat]

They reckon that if a tree falls on you or you get blown into a ditch while you're on your test it's their fault for not judging the weather correctly for safety. I had exactly the same happen to me on one of my tests
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[Gazdaman]

there's no waiting list for a cbt virtually.

I didn't do anywhere near 2 hours on the road...

Gaz

[Ste]

I'd prefer the system where people have to be trained and up to a set standard before being allowed on the roads, and only allowed on a small bike until they've shown their riding ability by passing a test, to the system in the US where you have to do a simple written test and you're then allowed to ride any bike as long as you've over 16 and don't ride at night.

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[california_rookie]

[proximity]

[Ste]

Do people actually need statistics to show that letting a 16 year old out on the road on whatever bike they want after they've done a simple written test is more dangerous than letting a 16 year old out on a 50cc ped after they've done a days training?

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[stryker]

On the topic, dodsi. The examiner is RESPONSIBLE for the testee during the test. If he took you out and you were blown under a truck he would have some very interesting questions to answer, along the lines of why did he take a rider out while only sure he was a learner.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

In 2003 there were 3592 rider killed on the road in the USA. That is about 5 times the number killed in the UK, in a country with 4 times the population.

There were 43220 people killed on the roads in the USA, compared to about 3500 in the UK, so 12 times as many.

However I don't have any statistics for the number of miles covered by motorcycle in the USA compared to the UK, let alone anything useful about where those miles were travelled.

All the best

Keith
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[california_rookie]

According the the CIA, the US has roughly 4.861 times the population of Great Britain, as of July 2004.

US vs. UK

293,027,571 vs. 60,270,708

3592 vs. 718

Five times the crashes with 4.8 times the population. It appears the situation isn't quite as dire as one might think.
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[dodsi]

Out of interest how does the american motorcycle tests work?

[california_rookie]

There was a rather lengthy conversation on that very same subject way back when...

Complete with one-of-a-kind illustrations by yours truly.

Speaking of which, can you believe there were over a hundred views of my brilliant artwork and not one positive rating?
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[CBRPETER]

hmm, wind ha, i don't think thats a fair excuse for him to call it off. Oh well its probably for the best, the wind could've made you make a mistake, you can't blame the wind if you choose to go ahead with it anyway.
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