New bike test

Drew · Banned Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Karma :

Hi,

Was talking to the people at the training school I passed test at today, and they were telling me about the new test.
(This could well have been posted before)

Apparently there is a part in the offroad section, where you have to ride at exactly 50KPH, and then swerve, as if a car had reversed off a drive towards you.

She said they have spent thousands on speed camera things, to make sure you are doing exactly 50KPH.

Also told me one of the very experienced riders there was demonstrating the new test, and failed this part 6 times in a row for not doing the exact speed.

How are you meant to do this exact speed when everyone knows speedos are usually slightly out?

Why is the speed 50kph, when that is over our 30mph speed limit?

As said, only going on what I have been told, so dont shoot me Laughing

Your thoughts?

Itchy · Super Spammer Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Karma :

As I cynically expect the new test is nothing to do with safety but to reduce the numbers of bikes on the road by making impossible and pointless tasks in the tests.

As bikes provide technical difficulties for road pricing plans that are going to be rolled out add 5-10 years and there will be far fewer bikes on the road.

This puts us into cars which = more fuel = more tax + road pricing victims
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AppleJoe · Brolly Dolly Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Karma :

To be honest I think the people at the school may have been exagerating a little, or just completely talking out their Shocked

. There would be no need for anyone to ride at an exact speed; there is no real life situation in which you need to do so. Also I doubt they would make the test that dangerous (the swerve part), the bike schools would sure get through some bikes with all those crashes Confused

I've heard (again from a school instructor) that it is some offroad training, with things like more complex cornering/handling, but I couldn't back that up either.

What I do know is that the price of the test will go uppppp!

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Seb · World Chat Champion Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Karma :

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Catalyst · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Karma :

These won't come in until october so luckily i just avoid it by one year Very Happy

Bit stupid if you ask me, how is doing a swerve on the test going to help at all. When someone pulls out you have no time to think you just react....which is swerving away. So they are just making you do a basic instinct not a skill Confused

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wristjob · World Chat Champion Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Karma :

its not off road as in up the fields on a c90.
its off road as in a controled area,tarmac and cones with no traffic.
also the swerve test speed (from what i have read) is an average between 2 points.50kph(31mph) isnt out of the ordinary.
its to see if you can actually control the bike(change line mid bend)and not just tip it in and hope.
the slalom and figure 8 willl be the hardest for most people.
and while i do feel that making the test harder for bikes only is a little unfair.
all driving tests need to be made much harder and you should have to pass one at least every 10 years.

AppleJoe · Brolly Dolly Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Karma :

You do low speed slalom and figure of 8 in your CBT Confused

or at least I did Rolling Eyes

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Nixon · Brolly Dolly Joined: 23 Jun 2007 Karma :

yep that is exactly what i ws told by my intructor too! he showed me a map of the curcuit and you have to be going round a bend to be building up the speed before they use a hand held speed gun to make sure you hit the target aparently the local guy that was explaining the test fell off and has his arm in sling as we speak Shocked

so if even the top dsa bods cant do it then new riders have no hope!

Will try blag a copy of the route and put it up

needless to say there shall be and has been many objections to it from the trainers!

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lurker · Trackday Trickster Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Karma :

more fuel=more tax doesn't wuite add up.
i'm lucky if i get 35 mpg on either of my bikes.