MOD 1 speed trap. should a calibration run be allowed?

[Ribenapigeon]

I was raeding another topic where a rider was too slow going through the speed trap because his speedo was reading too fast. Varience in speedo accuracy seems to be quite common so should the testing authority allow a calibration run? Just a thought.

[yaigi]

[Shinigami]

simple solution, don't look at the speedo.

I found it much easier just pinning it and not looking down.
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[BravoCharlie]

if you do the manoeuvre correctly but dont hit the speed correctly they will probably give you another shot.

the marking slip has 2 boxes to record your speed a 1st and 2nd time.

i'd just keep it in 2nd, open the throttle, and if you're too slow, he'll tell you
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[thepuma]

To be honest, you really don't want to be looking at your Speedo as you're coming up to the trap. If you're on a 125 then just take the bend at around 20mph and floor it in 2nd gear.....you will go through it naturally at 30ish mph. I never looked at the Speedo once on mine and I did it at 31,31 and 30 on my mod1.

If you look at your Speedo then its distracting you from what you need to do and in doing so making you more likely to makea mistake.
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[Ribenapigeon]

As I said just a thought hehee.

The emergancy stop dousent phaze me anyway as I'm always doing them. Errrr that didn't sound good :-/

[cimbian]

Mod 1 done this week, wind blowing a hoolie!

Like has been said, don't look at your speedo; look where you want to be and just go for it.

If you look down and worry about the speed you'll take-out one of the avoidance cones, probably the first one and may still not be going fast enough but without a chance at another go.

Better a minor fault and second chance than a fail. All IMveryHO, of course.
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[Andy_Pagin]

[ScaredyCat]

[Gunhawk]

My MOD1 examiner never even looked at the speedo devices once over my 3 runs, guess he knew from experience i was going fast enough! either that or he was hungry for lunch! (it was a lunchtime test)
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[ScaredyCat]

[sidewinder]

[janner_10]

Don't get bogged down worrying about crap like this - just floor it post bend you will be fine.
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[Rogerborg]

[Andy_Pagin]

[Llama-Farmer]

Depends what bike you're on. I went through on a 650 after pinning it in 2nd and was "unnecessarily fast, slow it down, a lot, for the avoidance" was the response from the examiner

[ScaredyCat]

[Llama-Farmer]

[P.]

They usually write it in KM.

I did 56 and 57 on a CLR125, that never ever really did 57mph, so its definitely KM. Doing a swerve like that at 50+mph would be suicidal on their playground and you would probably fail for going too fast. I got a warning for doing nearly 40mph...

[ScaredyCat]

Yeah, this is all Km/h - not Mp/h

I might be mad but I'm not crazy

Andy
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[thepuma]