Mod 1 practice - stage fright?!

[BravoCharlie]

i have no idea wtf happened to me today!

i'd been taking a lesson or 2 just to make sure i had no bad habits for my up coming tests...previous feedback was that i was 'excellent and coming along nicely, no doubt about it' today i went for a mod 1 practice, and my drive there and back was attrocious! instructor said everyone has an off lesson and it was definitely out of character for me to be driving that way.

anyone else had the pre-test nerves or the off lesson? it was a horrid experience, and as soon as i left the training centre on my own bike, i felt more than fine? with mod 1 looming i can't afford to cock it up, i'm eager for this license!
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[SnowTigeress]

Yeah me .............. took me 4 attempts at mod 1 on just the speed traps............and 4 attempts on mod 2,for something totally different on each test that failed me

Got there in the end though
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[thepuma]

I think sometimes you can overpractice...to the point where you're making mistakes you wouldn't normally make.

I practiced LOTS for my Mod1 and there was times where I'd done the u-turn perfectly time after time after time, then bizarrely out the blue I'd fluff it up and think "wtf? I've done this perfect a hundred times, how can I possible all of a sudden fluff it like that"...but it happens.

Even though I'd never hit a cone on a single slalom/figure of 8 in the hundred or so times I'd practised it, I was still paranoid that on the mod1 day I would clip one.

Everyone has a bad day from time to time, so its best to get it out the way BEFORE your test rather than on it.
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[Alex_B]

Haha, I dropped my bike at 6:30 a.m. on the morning of my mod 1.

I was first in on MoD1 and 2 as it happens at 8:15 a.m.

I was practicing on the way to the test center and it just went down, I caught it but couldn't keep it upright and laid it down as gently as I could.

Hey, Varadero's are fecking top heavy

Flew through both tests 1st time so don't worry, it's all good stuff!

You really cannot want it more than I did, It was 6:30 a.m. in a car park in winter ffs

You'll do great, you want it that bad, you'll pass, good luck
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[BravoCharlie]

glad to see i aint the only one then!


i had my instructor lose it with me in the courtyard for locking my back wheel up a few times. problem is, i kept grabbing for the clutch! i've decided to just take the minor, and stall the fucking bike!


out on the road though, my roundabouts were atrocious! a couple of times my road positioning was bad too. I just kept negging myself out! it wasn't a good experience today!

by the end of the mod 1 practice he had me up to scratch and focused, i feel i could do well on thursday

mod 2 however, i need to be careful on roundabouts (even though i know wtf i'm doing) and with my positioning (i can be sloppy as i dont know that area and some points were very poorly posted!)
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[ScaredyCat]

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you know, in my mod 1 retake, i got the e-stop pretty good.

although i did use the rear brake, zoned out for some bazaar reason (brain just went clear and everything around me kind of "vanished" was like a black out without blacking out) anyway, realised i was coming down to the 10mph mark and figured, "nuts to it" yanked on cluch, tweeked both brakes and kaboom i was at a stand still realising i should probably put a foot on the floor about now (this is as the bikes beginning to lean lol)
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