BIKE TEST BEING MADE HARDER!?

[l33th3tr33]

apparently the bike test is being made ALOT harder to pass in october im not liking that so im gonna do mine next week
anyone know anything about this malarky?

[.....]

Really? How did you find this out?

Do you have contacts at the DSA?

[panrider_uk]

I doubt sarcasm encourages new members to stay.

Mark
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[iooi]

Well ain't that just dandy

Don't you realise you should have booked your test BEFORE telling everyone else
Now you going to struggle to get a free slot.




















News was only released about a year ago......
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[Skudd]

It is only little things like being able to take you bike off and on the stands, move the bike through a 180 by pushing it from one space to another but not having both hands on the bars, one on the bars the other on the frame or such place to manoeuvre the bike around. But we are all Gods on bikes once we have passed so it will be very easy for Gods to be.
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[bazza]

[Weedy]

[ms51ves3]

[panrider_uk]

[djrichieb]

Its not the offroad/on road part that people should be worrying about. Its the lack of centres that will be available when the new test is introduced I can imagine.
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[iooi]

[bazza]

[Catalyst]

When i done my A2 in march the instructor said they've got to do a bit where you have cones in the shape of a hairpin corner. Have to reach 50kph as you come out the other side (as if you have got round), apparently it shows your control if you enter a corner too fast and also accelerating around a corner as you start from standstill.

Problem being that a 125 like YBR's and CG's will only just be able to accelerate up to that speed just before you have to hit the speed. So people won't pass because the actual bike can't do what is being asked.
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[Silver]

[Pickle]

Thing is, even if the new test is the same difficulty as it is now, the fear that it will be harder prompted me to get off my arse and learn to ride. So maybe it will encourage a bunch more people... which is surely a good thing.

Still - I'm hoping I pass before October!

[Silver]

[Pickle]

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[panrider_uk]

I've given up on seeing correct grammar and spelling

Mark
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[Tonka]

I've just trained and passed test - been talking about it for a while but the new test format certainly made me work hard to pass. I'd have had to get down to Exeter from Bournemouth this autumn otherwise. Defintely, worth getting on with it asap if you ask me....did you?
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[uniuk2000]

I'm really glad I passed my test 38 years ago lol...

[Skudd]

Fothose of us who did our tests 25 years ago it is almost the same as in an off road bit ( used to be called part 1) then do the part two road bit ( but that wasn't followed like it is now)
It should make riders safer to some extent, but I think they should do some more high speed routes and corners as it would be more real world. If you are good enough then the test shouldn't be a problem. You only need to worry if you are not good enough.
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Petty Anarchists look at "1984".............. The Visionary looks at "Animal Farm".

[Weedy]

One of the best examiners in the country came off attempting the 50kph hairpin/corner and broke his leg.

Doesn't bode well for the rest of us!
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[MinhDinh]

[ms51ves3]