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spongefinger Renault 5 Driver
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Posted: 22:17 - 14 Apr 2021 Post subject: Good luck. |
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I passed mine on Tuesday. I failed my first one on the u turn. I practiced on a pushbike over lockdown and as silly as it sounds it made me understand and get over my mental block that the bike won't fall over if it's going fast enough. I hired a 125 for a couple of hours from my school last week when it was possible again and went to a empty carpark and practiced u turns and figure 8 for two hours solid. I was knackered but when I went back to lessons on the 650 u-turns seemed the most natural thing my instructor was amazed at the difference since last time he saw me. The high speed stuff is ok I actually did emergency stop at 61kph and tester told me to dial it back for avoidance to make it easier and I actually got a minor for going through at 49 kph but I can live with that. The thing that amazed me the most was how quick it went, it felt like one minute I was sitting waiting for the gates to be opened to go in going through everything in my head next minute he was telling me to go back to gates and get ready go leave paddock ! I can't even recall doing the u turn or avoidance it's just a blur |
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Posted: 13:23 - 15 Apr 2021 Post subject: Re: Good luck. |
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spongefinger wrote: | I passed mine on Tuesday. I failed my first one on the u turn. I practiced on a pushbike over lockdown and as silly as it sounds it made me understand and get over my mental block that the bike won't fall over if it's going fast enough. I hired a 125 for a couple of hours from my school last week when it was possible again and went to a empty carpark and practiced u turns and figure 8 for two hours solid. I was knackered but when I went back to lessons on the 650 u-turns seemed the most natural thing my instructor was amazed at the difference since last time he saw me. The high speed stuff is ok I actually did emergency stop at 61kph and tester told me to dial it back for avoidance to make it easier and I actually got a minor for going through at 49 kph but I can live with that. The thing that amazed me the most was how quick it went, it felt like one minute I was sitting waiting for the gates to be opened to go in going through everything in my head next minute he was telling me to go back to gates and get ready go leave paddock ! I can't even recall doing the u turn or avoidance it's just a blur |
Congratulations mate, I am happy to hear you passed! I am practising U-turns in the local Tesco car park while I wait on mine too. ____________________ PRESENT: 2018 BMW S1000XR SE Sport.
PAST: 2009 Kawasaki ER-6F. 2021 Zontes ZT-125U. |
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Posted: 13:50 - 15 Apr 2021 Post subject: |
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Congratulation to spongefinger and good luck to Fat Angry Scotsman |
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spongefinger Renault 5 Driver
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Posted: 22:11 - 15 Apr 2021 Post subject: Re: Good luck. |
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Fat Angry Scotsman wrote: | spongefinger wrote: | I passed mine on Tuesday. I failed my first one on the u turn. I practiced on a pushbike over lockdown and as silly as it sounds it made me understand and get over my mental block that the bike won't fall over if it's going fast enough. I hired a 125 for a couple of hours from my school last week when it was possible again and went to a empty carpark and practiced u turns and figure 8 for two hours solid. I was knackered but when I went back to lessons on the 650 u-turns seemed the most natural thing my instructor was amazed at the difference since last time he saw me. The high speed stuff is ok I actually did emergency stop at 61kph and tester told me to dial it back for avoidance to make it easier and I actually got a minor for going through at 49 kph but I can live with that. The thing that amazed me the most was how quick it went, it felt like one minute I was sitting waiting for the gates to be opened to go in going through everything in my head next minute he was telling me to go back to gates and get ready go leave paddock ! I can't even recall doing the u turn or avoidance it's just a blur |
Congratulations mate, I am happy to hear you passed! I am practising U-turns in the local Tesco car park while I wait on mine too. |
Cheers, If you are able to practice already you will ace it on test. |
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Posted: 13:09 - 06 May 2021 Post subject: |
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RIP
Failed on the figure of eight exercise as I took too heavy a turn-in and put the foot down. Fucking gutted as I did really well on everything else including the U-turn (which I was dreading before doing the test).
Looking back on it, I think it was because after the slalom I came in tight to the blue cone and I am kicking myself because Fraser the instructor literally told me before I went in that I should go wide and give myself room after the slalom. Anyway, came in tight and leaned in - put the foot down to stabilise and that was it: goodnight Vienna.
I continued with the rest of the course anyway, the examiner told me at the then I failed because of the foot down but did well on all the other exercises.
I go again on Monday 14th June. ____________________ PRESENT: 2018 BMW S1000XR SE Sport.
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Posted: 15:20 - 06 May 2021 Post subject: |
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similar to me, recently failed mine on the figure of 8, i honestly cant recall what i did wrong exactly, i felt fine in the morning, got there, felt fine, rode to the test site, waited around, still felt ok, started the slalom, still not nervous, then bang as soon as i started the figure of 8 i had kind a panic attack lol, a big rush of nerves from nowhere, no idea why as id practiced it all 2 days before and did every test fine 5-10 times each and i wasnt feeling nervous, never felt anything like it before in my life, i could feel my own heart beating hard in my chest, totally freaked me out
i think, i just took the wrong line and then couldnt correct it, but im not sure tbh my mind is still a bit blank
carried on the test and passed everything else ok |
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BRUN wrote: | similar to me, recently failed mine on the figure of 8, i honestly cant recall what i did wrong exactly, i felt fine in the morning, got there, felt fine, rode to the test site, waited around, still felt ok, started the slalom, still not nervous, then bang as soon as i started the figure of 8 i had kind a panic attack lol, a big rush of nerves from nowhere, no idea why as id practiced it all 2 days before and did every test fine 5-10 times each and i wasnt feeling nervous, never felt anything like it before in my life, i could feel my own heart beating hard in my chest, totally freaked me out
i think, i just took the wrong line and then couldnt correct it, but im not sure tbh my mind is still a bit blank
carried on the test and passed everything else ok |
You passed it since or waiting your retest mate? ____________________ PRESENT: 2018 BMW S1000XR SE Sport.
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BRUN wrote: | i hope so too mate
you can be as prepared as you like for this test, be the best rider ever, but a lot of it depends on nerves on the day and just how it goes
i was far more nervous today than last time, when i started the slalom i had a big wave of nerves come over me, and my slalom started poorly so i thought i was going to fail right there, but managed it, onto the figure of 8 which i was better prepared for mentally/technique/concentration this time, once i got through that, i thought id then mess up on the u-turn, the high speed stuff didnt bother me
went through the trap at 64kp/h for the emergency stop lol |
Nice mate, when I went through it I got 54 km/h every time. The one thing I liked about the test centre itself was how grippy the surface was. When I done my MOD 1 last week it was absolutely pissing down but the surface felt fantastic. ____________________ PRESENT: 2018 BMW S1000XR SE Sport.
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MOD 1 passed today with no minors.
Booking MOD 2 for Hamilton.
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