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Riding a bike and the ability to pass tests will still be waiting for you when you have less pressures than at present.
Cut your losses.
Bye loser.
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Yeah...you're getting failed on whims.
I made some goofs on my test but I passed because I 'looked' like I was confident.
Next time spit on the floor and ride it like you stole it (within the law etc etc).
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Boredom and fatigue of a particular activity always happens. It's a very human thing to happen.
Eventually the thrill vanishes and you have to do something to get it back either changing it or trying something different.
Way back a lot of us got bored of carving Snake pass. So we carved the A675. We got bored of that so went street racing. We got bored of that so we race in heavy traffic ____________________ Spain 2008France 2007Big one 2009 We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. In the end, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching. |
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Your examiner is quite possibly being a dick, or doesn't like the cut of your jib. No offence (no more than usual) but are you obviously a spacker of some sort?
Throwing up in your lid isn't right though. Why are you even riding if that's a likelihood? Are DVLA aware of your condition?
If you're not enjoying it, sack it off. It's a pleasure activity. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Give it up as you don't need a bike, and having one and a licence doesn't sound like it's going to help you financially or save money, which you need to be doing.
Work on the business and get it back to very healthy again instead. That way next time you decide to get your bike licence, you might be turning up at bike meets on an MV Augusta soon after.
I think your reasons were possibly wrong for getting into bikes in the first place. Saying you needed a shot of something exciting and a new challenge in your life ain't an amazing reason to start riding a bike, and it says more about you and your life, than it does about trying out a new form of transport for a laugh.
If I were coming into bikes today from ground zero, as a mature never sat on a bike in my life person, then I'd need a bloody good reason as to why I wanted or needed a bike on today's roads.
If I couldn't justify or convince myself it was for cost or time saving on my commute, or because I had friends all going on interesting continental adventures, and felt like I was missing out etc, then I'd not bother to get a licence to use any road transport on the fucked road and traffic infrastructure we have today. |
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stevo as b4 wrote: | Give it up as you don't need a bike, and having one and a licence doesn't sound like it's going to help you financially or save money, which you need to be doing.
Work on the business and get it back to very healthy again instead. That way next time you decide to get your bike licence, you might be turning up at bike meets on an MV Augusta soon after.
I think your reasons were possibly wrong for getting into bikes in the first place. Saying you needed a shot of something exciting and a new challenge in your life ain't an amazing reason to start riding a bike, and it says more about you and your life, than it does about trying out a new form of transport for a laugh.
If I were coming into bikes today from ground zero, as a mature never sat on a bike in my life person, then I'd need a bloody good reason as to why I wanted or needed a bike on today's roads.
If I couldn't justify or convince myself it was for cost or time saving on my commute, or because I had friends all going on interesting continental adventures, and felt like I was missing out etc, then I'd not bother to get a licence to use any road transport on the fucked road and traffic infrastructure we have today. |
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The most concerning thing about this thread is that Tef hasn't responded yet.
He's.
Still.
Typing.
____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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OP : I’d say to you “man the f*ck up and get on with it”
Woe is me and boo hoo won’t get you passed you test/mod2.
Determination, practice, and a big gulp of “man the f*ck up” is more likely to get you through.
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Do you actually want to ride a motorcycle? Serious question. It's not mandatory, you know.
Also Sunk Costs
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AshWebster wrote: | no-one gets a thrill from a 125.. |
Yes they do......
16 year-olds get a thrill from riding mopeds for gawds sake & 17 year olds think a 125 is awesome after that, and a warped cognoscenti have discovered that the oft ridiculed tiddler derided and not taken seriously by so many doesn't have to be taken seriously, and a little bike, of limited performance, you not only can, but are almost compelled to ride to the ragged edge of its capabilities, just to make adequate progress, rather than sat on something with a shear excess of performance, you can rarely even use, let alone exploit very often, is actually very demanding, very engaging, incredibly rewarding, and ultimately a heck of a lot more fun, than sat little more than a passenger with influence, on something that could go very very fast, without any real effort required to do so.
125's can be and often are as fast as any other motorcycle is legally allowed to go in this country, can break just as many speed limits and other road laws, and face the exact same dangers faced by any other bike of any capacity along the way. They just have a smaller hole in the engine where fire happens!
LIB3RTY wrote: | I've never rode on my own, always with my instructor |
To-Be-Honest, the list of test travesties, suggest to me, a rider that the examiner has failed because it obviously hasn't 'clicked' with him, and a bit of time on a tiddler, biting back the ego and expectation and aspiration, and doing a little learning actually may be no bad thing.
OP's commentary and ire at not being granted the pass he is convinced he deserves, suggestions that his attitude and aspirations are askew as much as anything, and the examiner has picked up that as well.
LIB3RTY wrote: | 1st - Road positioning. I gave enough room for an arsehole in a BMW to undertake me on a right hand turn. |
If you have left eough room for some-one to stuff a car up the inside on a bend?!?!?! Yeah... that sounds like pretty poor road positioning!
What is the relevence of the bloke that pased driving a BMW, and what is it that suggests they are an arsehole? Passing you, or driving a BMW or both?
LIB3RTY wrote: | 2nd - Lost control of the vehicle. Did an emergency stop at a mini round about when an old biddy pulled out on my right without looking, put my left foot down on wet leaves and nearly dropped the bike. |
Err.. lost control.. yeah..... you did the e-stop on mod 1, right? So, on Mod 2, on the road, you binned it! Not Good!
And again, what is the pertinance of what caused you to perform an e-stop? And how does that suddenly warrant a derogatory description of her as a blind old biddy? Most car drivers dont pay that much attension to anything on the roads and even fewer pay much attenson to bikes, how was this one any different?
It's a pretty typical every day senario, you are expected to have the ablity to contend with 'safely' every day, as a qualifed regular rider!
But, oh, boo-hoo, you paid for an expensive DAS Mod-2and dd't get what you hoped for your money, so, blame the other driver, blame the boot, blame the weather, blame the leaves... and argue with the examiner!
LIB3RTY wrote: | 3rd - Too close to a Bus on dual carriageway (I disputed this). |
So, in your vast experience of failng tests, some-how you believe that your opinion of what is requred to pass a motorcycle test, is more authoratitive than the bloke who'se not just a qualified rider, but qualified examiner?
LIB3RTY wrote: | 4th - Vomited in my helmet and had to stop (Health problems rearing their ugly head again).
5th - Called an end to it myself due to terrible nausea, feared vomiting in my helmet again and was having difficulty concentrating on road signs etc. |
Err, yeah... you wren't in fit state to ride, what's the problem? Do you thik the examer should have accepted a note from mummy you were ill that day, ad gven you a pass cert out of pitty?
LIB3RTY wrote: | 6th - Overtook slow moving car on dual carriageway then was asked perhaps a few hundred yards from a round about that we were turning left. The left lane was full of traffic so I deemed it safer to remain in the Right lane and go around the round about, coming off at the exit I would have taken if I were in the left lane. I disputed this one too but the examiner said I was wrong to do so. |
Suggestion that you shouldn't have undertaken alterative manouver by the examiner, implies that at source, your judgement was in error, and you either shouldn't have passed the car to start with, or you actually did have the time to safely complete that manouver before tackling the roud-about.
But again, as learner you consider your opinion of higer merit than the examiner.
IF you performed your 'alternatve' manouver without causing hazard, it should't have been automatc fail, so either you did cause hazard, and made another road-user change speed or direction, or the way you undertook your alternative manouver, contained enough instances of inconsstency or slack practice to rank up and add to minors on the ticket.
There's a lot more not beng told in ths list than there is, and what there is, is a lot of ire at the examier, who didn't give you the ticket you'd hoped for, rather than any sense that you have learned from his comments
Back to tiddlers... in this instance, if OP doesn't just give up, then a little humility and time on a tiddler, getting some real road experience, learning just how often we have to contend with arsehole BMW drivers and blind old biddies, necrotic on a schedule bus-drivers, rubble scattering tipper trucks, random kiddie carriers and the terror-taxis, could be a pretty useful bit of learning experience, learning to actually anticipate these regular and frequent hazards, and contend with them, rather than look for 'Thrills' and excuses, could be well worth-while.
Public roads are not a race track or theme park; if thrills or exiting life-style activities are sought, then, there are plenty, from jet-skis, to hang-gliders, to roller-coasters, or casinos, or amusement arcades, or massage parlors, or or or ad-infinitum.
If that 'excitement' s what the OP craves, then maybe, yeah, he should give up, he's looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place, with the wrong attitudes and the wrong expectations, before he even starts...
Otherwise, There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.. [/i] ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 95 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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