Did any of you...?

[illuminateTHE...]

When doing your doing your module 2, did any of you decide to pick test centre miles away from you even after considering that you may not have riden on 99% of the roads you may travel on during your test. If you did, did you find it difficut .

I'm considering doing the above, as it would allow me to do my mod 2 this month instead of having to wait until december for the next free slot :S.

[U_W v2.0]

someone on here said,

doing the module 2 on unfamiliar roads can be an advantage because you dont know the roads, this will make you pay more attention to signage.

im doing my module 2 at a center 1.5-2 hours ride away from me for this reason.
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[bikertomm]

Yes, I'm doing mine in an area unknown to me.

And for the record, I'd rather not be...

I'd rather not have more time to pay attention to signs on a day where I need to get everything right!

It's just another thing on the bloody list


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[Englishman]

I did mine at the MPTC about 30 mins away, around which we had been riding relentlessly during the 3 days training. Then on the Mod 2, I was directed in a totally new direction, onto roads I had never seen before in my life. Passed with 6 minors.
I wouldn't worry about knowing the test routes - road signs and looking ahead will see you through.
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[Benno]

I did mine in an area that I had never in my life been to before. Passed first time
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[Elffie01]

same as, never driven where I took my test and passed.
They are all roads and sometimes it better not to know as it makes you more aware of your surroundings.

Roads that you know can well be a problem as you might be at ease and do something stupid as you are comfortable on that road.
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[thepuma]

I did mine on 100% familiar roads...knew them all like the back of my hand and i passed ok, so i dont really buy into the theory that doing the test somewhere unfamiliar makes you more alert.

If you do the test on local roads your more likely to know any pitfalls, any odd speed limit roads etc etc and are less likely to get caught out.
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[J.M.]

My closest test centre was one I'd never ridden anywhere near before other than getting to it once for my Mod 1.

The entire test was on unknown roads.

I passed first time with no lessons

With the news laws coming in soon... book it if it means getting a closer test!
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[cromwell]

I did mine about 40 minutes from where I lived, although I slightly knew the area, not knowing limits and roads was a slight advantage but my instructors took us on the routes before hand so a little knowledge of junctions etc doesn't hurt.
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[Magnet]

I did my MOD1 and 2 the same day in a different area to where I live. I think it did make the whole test easier as I wasn't premeditating things. Also the roads were a lot better which must have helped and traffic was busy so I didn't get too travel that far on my test
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[janner_10]

No - I just booked the fucker and got on with it.
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[Amnesty]

Did mine an hour away, and yes, I paid more attention.
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[anthony_r6]

Did mine in my own town. Knew pretty much all the roads like the back of my hand. Even the independent riding meant I didn't have to look for signs to know what I was doing.

If you need unfamiliar roads to 'pay more attention' then you're not riding properly and don't seem to care whether or not you pass your test.
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[Andy_Pagin]

If you're good enough to pass it won't matter where you take the test, just go for it and don't over think it.
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[Teflon-Mike]

I tested in Leamington Spa, which I wasn't familiar with, on a school bike, I wasn't familiar with, having trained in Birmingham, only school in the area at the time that rented bikes, when I lived in Stratford on Avon.

So, trained twenty five miles from where I lived, tested fifteen miles from where I lived, on a bike I had never ridden before....

But then, even if I had tested where I lived....... I was 17, and not been a motorised road-user before!

Think about this one.... you are a learner-rider..... you shouldn't need to be familiar with ANY roads in ANY location, really, should you?

Its a driving test, not a Taxi-Drivers 'Knowledge' exam!

I actually had three more attempts, one was aborted, as I had to use a borrowed bike and it stopped working! That was only one in my home town; they stopped doing the wobble round the block tests after that, and test queues were horrendous.... you think five WEEKS is bad for a test appointment while under threat of 3rd Directive changes? Back then it was five MONTHS at some test centers because they didn't have enough qualified bike riding examiners!

Next two attempts were in Coventry, because that was where I was at Uni..... totally muffed test 3.... putting on a 'show-ride'.... I'd been down in Devon when I got a cancellation that my mother 'helpfully' accepted on my behalf... I came back up two days before, but broke the journey back in Stratford and ended up on a bender with one of my mates and his hard boozing parents! Had mad dash drive up to Stafford to get the bike, and mad ride from there to Cov. Two days booze in my blood-stream, being burned off by adrenaline and red-mist ride, turned up some-what 'keyed up', and resultant ride, 'over compensated' trying to be 'calm' and was failed for 'not making progress' and told I needed a bit more 'confidence' and to not be so afraid to open the throttle!

Wasn't helped that I had no idea where the test centre was and wasted twenty minutes on the wrong industrial estate looking for it before hand!

Roads? I was a student, living in a strange town. I new the uni, I new where my digs were, I new the pavement between the two...... Could have taken me to Tamworth on that test for all I knew!

I just turned left when he said, right when he said and carried straight on when he said nothing.

THAT is what YOU do!

Last time was Coventry again, but the office moved in the FIVE frigging months it took to get another test date........ and route? Like I said, I knew the roads between digs & uni......

I passed...... using a test center out of by zone of geographic knowledge NOT really a factor in the matter.
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[Lord Percy]

I'm gonna have to use a further away test centre because the examiner at my mod1 seemed almost insistent that I have at least one lesson before the mod2 (he didn't say why, and I passed the mod1 faultlessly...), however I don't really want a lesson, so I need to find a different test centre now because if I have the same guy for the mod2, he could quite easily have a bit of a chip on his shoulder for me ignoring him, and could therefore mark me down very aggressively for any slight mistake that might normally be overlooked.

[jeddy11]

^^ How is he going to know if you have had a lesson or not ?
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[J.M.]

[Lord Percy]

Haha, dunno actually. I guess if he asks me, I can just be quite honest and say the only lessons were too expensive for my liking, so I just figured I'd sit the mod2 as a trial run/lesson, and learn from that if I fail, etc etc.

[i.p.phrealy]

Do you think driving a car for 17 years will be an advantage or a disadvantage? I've done a lot of driving and junctions I had never thought about in a car I see differently on a bike, there is an island near Kestrel Honda in Coventry that in a car is fine, but in the wet on a bike is lethal because it has 3 manhole covers in a line, from island to kerb, so you will hit one unless you can do a bunnyhop over them.
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[dextersaurus]

I live in Edinburgh and i travelled up to Kirkcaldy to do my test. Meant i had my licence within 2 weeks of calling them rather than having to wait a few months.

Had never been on the roads in my life. On an unfamiliar bike in an unfamiliar area, but i passed with 0 faults so must have done something right.

I'd say go for it if you're comfortable enough with the test.

Dunc

[Teflon-Mike]