MOD 1, distance between cones on slalom and figure of eight?

[Ribenapigeon]

I was just looking at a PDF of the MOD1 course and it says the distance between cones for the slalom is 4.5 M, and between the cones for the figure of eight its 6 M. I just got a tape measure out and I can't believe it those measurements must be a mistake. i've been practicing my figure at at a car park (short end of spaces for slalom, long edge of space for Fof8. Is the PDF wrong. I would post a link but I can't remember which thread on BCF I got it from :-/

[Daytona Paul]

Those measurements are correct. The 6m for the fig 8 is immaterial as you can go as wide as you like
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[Ribenapigeon]

Good grief if that's right I really need to get my theory out of the way and knock the MOD1 on the head, a drunk blind chiken on a unicyle could do a slalom and figure eight on a course with those dimensions!

[gaffa]

If you are practicing, set the course up smaller than the dimensions so it will be easier for you on test day
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[WillOdling]

[thepuma]

[Ribenapigeon]

The distances seem huge because i've been practicing using carparking spaces which are a lot smaller. I actually feel more confident about the Mod 1 than the theory as I feel I have more control over what happens on the Mod1. After all on the theory you have no control what questions you're asked

[jeddy11]

Your thinking is slightly flawed id say Mod1 plenty of unknowns and things to go wrong specially with the old nerves etc

Theory is just questions you know what your going get and you can apply common sense if you don't know the answer..

So i would say you have more control over the theory
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[thepuma]

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[thepuma]

[Ribenapigeon]

There's a Poundland next to Sainsburys carpark i'll see if they have any large flourescent dildos.

Blow up sheep in deed! Ya bunch of plebs

[trikeschick]

I used google maps to look at the test site layout. It all looked so easy. I remember walking the mock test site and thinking that's easy. Saw it on paper - pah how difficult can it be. Got on the bike - a crappy, clumsy GS500 and all of a sudden it was my worst nightmare! Three failed tests, a bottle of bachs remedy, I nailed it the fourth time
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[Daytona Paul]

[wayne.p]

[Ribenapigeon]

Cheers I didn't realise you have to do Obs' while doing the Fof8.

[thepuma]

[Matt B]

[Ribenapigeon]

Ah, so you stop at the end of the slalom? I thought you just powered into it

[Mark 37]

I've been doing some practice for mod 1. One of my local industrial estates has a bakery and I've been using the bread crates for slalom and fig 8. So far so good. My main worry is the fast manuevers (swirve & E stop). Not for stopping or swerving (I practice swerving around speed bumps), it's the acceleration rate that worries me as I don't gun it very often and the acceleration is quite foreign for me. My only practice I'm getting to accelerate is from lights on the rare occasion there is nothing in front of me. I've. Even practising my "U" turn on the ground that I passed my CBT. I tried and failed miserably for two weeks so decided to measure the distance and found the CBT area to be 2.2metres narrower than test distance.

Mark
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[Ribenapigeon]

First thing i do every morning when i get on my bike is a curb to curb U-turn, i dont have to but its a good way to start the day, as long as my oposite neighbours have been good enough not to park over the road from me

[wayne.p]