What did you pass your test on? Where? Many tries? Stories..

[Sister Sledge]

Just to confirm - I got the 350 YPVS after passing my test.

[MarJay]

I did the 33bhp restricted test (pre-mod1 and 2, but post 2 part test... weird how things go in cycles!) in 1998 in Brighton Marina on an NS125R.

It was my third bike test, failed previously on being dangerous because I did not enter an area of chevrons on the road when stuck at a box junction (yeah I know, right?), and then on something else which I forget. On the test I passed I got two minors for hesitancy, because I'd just managed to spin up my rear tyre on the slip road out of the marina just a few minutes before the test...

Rode home afterwards after having unceremoniously ripped up my L plates.
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British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F
Remember kids, bikes aren't like lego. You can't easily take a part from one bike and then fit it to another.

[Baffler186]

Started training on a GS500, day 2 I moved on to the GSR600. Passed Mod1 with a fluke (stopped and put foot down by mistake during slow control, but examiner wasn't looking).

Next day did Mod2 on the GSR, got a couple minors and thought I'd failed but got back and I had passed.
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Current: 2009 SV650 S, 1990 Kawasaki GT550
Previous: 2009 CBF125, 1998 GSF600, 2004 FZ6 Fazer, 1978 CB400a Hondamatic

[Fizzer Thou]

Bought my Honda CB125s back in July 1975 and at the beginning of September applied for my test.I stupidly failed on insufficient rear observation.So I applied for a cancellation and two weeks later I passed.Best test that I have ever passed

The 125 was all that I could afford at the time.But in 1978 I bought my first big bike,a CB550F1 and have never looked back

https://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/WiNot_Rhencullen/Honda%20750/My%20bikes/BikesBikesBikes2007.jpg~original

The picture shows my younger brothers trying my bike for size
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Just talk bikes.What else is there?

Always have a 'Plan B'

[grr666]

Smashing flares man!
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[thx1138]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[Soggz]

I did my test on a Honda CG 125. Passed first time. 1996.
But learnt how to ride in 1980,in a field, on a Flandria 50 sp547,when I was 12 years old. I thought I’d better get legal in ‘96!
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[winz]

I learn on a 600 Divvy for Mmod and a CB650F for mod2 about 4 and a half years ago in Bristol,

Failed mod1 once for putting my foot down doing the u-turn.

Failed mod2 twice for not indicating going round a roundabout, second time for being too close to parked cars.

Was rather frustrating, but I got there in the end. The worse part was buying the Hornet before I passed, so it was just sitting there.
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Current Bikes: BMW K1200S
Previous: Honda CBR929RR, Honda CBR1100XX, Honda CB600F

[Suntan Sid]

[Bikeless]

[myvision]

I found out that I was getting moved onto a new job in central London and decided I wasn't doing the tube I'll do my bike test.

So in February 2016 I booked my CBT and did that but couldn't get my theory booked until April.
In between this I'd bought a PCX 125 so I could get to the office and teach myself to filter.
Passed the theory then booked lessons.
Three days of lessons then MOD 1 and MOD 2 on day four and passed this was on an ER6 in Scunthorpe.

Day after passing I bought my Hornet but went back to the PCX until I had more confidence filtering and was offered a bargain price on a Burgman 400 so took that and sold the PCX.
I took the Hornet home to North Lincolnshire so I could use it on a weekend then the bug bit at home also so I had to have more bikes!

I'd had bikes when I was younger DT50 (80) at 16 NSR 125 at 17 and various field and MX bikes as a kid but hadn't ridden in 23 years before I decided to do the test.
Should have done it when I was 17/18 really enjoying it and hope to head into Europe next year.
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VFR800FI, YZF600R Thundercat and FZS 1000

[evilzed]

Failed Mod 1 once because somehow I managed to overshoot the box the front wheel was supposed to stop in by about 1/2 a foot, which was like the easiest bit of the test

Passed it the second time, the rest passed first time all on an XJ6

[grr666]

[BLB_Rich]

Bandit 600 back in Aug 2015. Almost wheelied the thing. I'd never ridden more than 125 & the power was PHWOAR at the time. Now with a Yammy that has c.100hp & 3 yrs under my belt the Bandit wasn't that powerful in hindsight!

Did mine in Burgess Hill & passed both Mod 1 & Mod 2 at the first go
Got told off on Mod 2 for gunning it a lot to the speed limit but it was controlled & safe so he didn't mind!!

[ride_to_die]

Gs500 back in 2002. Had been riding for two years before that...Ts125 then a Nsr125. Went to do my cbt again and the bloke said I'd be better off doing the full test, so I did. Theory test a week later then practical. Examiner followed me in a Suzuki Baleno, in peak time traffic on a cold rainy November morning. I lost him almost straightaway, had to keep pulling over to let him catch up, 20 minutes later I'd passed.
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[Atomic Punk]

On my mates RD250 in Bridgend South Wales in 1978, as others have said mine was ride around two blocks, ride at a walking pace and a E stop. Nearly came off on wet leaves but that was out of the sight of the on foot examiner.
My training was to ask the guy who had just passed before me what he did, "just look behind you a lot"
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I may have lost my way but I'm way ahead of schedule.

[Lone-Wolf]

Wotcha.

Many years ago, I read in MCN that the cost of the bike test was to be increased to over three quid. I promptly sent off before the price increase and headed over to Bilston on my trusty BSA Bantam . . . .where I happily passed.

The rest, as they say, is history.
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[inline4]

After having ridden motorbikes for nearly a decade in India in tricky urban situations I was extremely cocky when I started my fast track rider training in rural Cambridgeshire back in 2011.

CBT was no problem as expected and I breezed through DAS 1 with zero errors. Onto DAS 2 which I failed because of passing too close to a lorry... old habits die hard I guess :-p !

Attempt number 2 and I was a bundle of nerves and failed again.

Few weeks later and it was time for attempt number 3 and this time I thought "Fuck it... I am just going to ride the bike to the conditions" and if I fail then riding a bike in the UK is not for me. But this time i passed !

Bought my first big bike shortly afterwards which was a Bandit 1250

[2Hondas]

CBT done in early 2007 having never ridden a motorbike before. I then bought a brand new YBR125 because it came with a years insurance, helmet, gloves and a jacket for £2k.
I rode around on that for the best part of a year and then did a 3 day DAS on a CB500.

I did my practical test in Weybridge where I was followed around by Hans-Moleman in his Nissan Micra talking to me via a one-way radio. The majority of the test was him asking me to pull over so he could catch up with me.
When it came to the emergency stop, we stopped in a quiet residential area and he asked me to go around the block.
Loop 1, I was being followed by a car, so he asked me to go round again.
Loop 2, I got back and I was followed by another car, so had to go around again.
Loop 3, another car! The examiner threw his hands up in the air in exhasperation as I rode by.
Loop 4, I gave it some beans around the block and made sure I wasn't followed. Did the emergency stop with no problems.

I then did the U-turn on probably the widest road in the local area, it was a very comfortable 5 car widths.

Got back to the test center and he told me i'd passed. He'd not noted any minors so just picked one at random to make it look like was doing his job. I think he chose 'hesitancy' or similar.

I then went and bought a Hornet, and thought it was utterly insane that I was legally able to ride such a beast.
Immediately after buying it I had to take it for an MOT, and took it to warp-factor 9 on the way there having had no experience on anything with such power.
Absolutely ridiculous.
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Current - 2010 Kawasaki ER-6n - Green
Previous - 2000 Honda CB600F Hornet - Yellow
Previous - 2007 Yamaha YBR125 -Blue

[LongJohn22]

My motorcycle test was the only one I did that wasn't taken through the Army. That was in 1964 whilst I was on leave in Paisley, where my parents were living at the time. It was on my trusty £4 Lambrettor LI150 and was fairly uneventful apart from the front brake not being up to much,, no great dramas and I came away with a pink slip.
A year later, I took my wheeled vehicle test around Carlisle in a Bedford RL 3 ton truck, in those days there was no HGV, it was possible to pass the test in your car and go out the next day and get a job driving the largest wagons on the road.
A further year on and I got my H licence for tracked vehicles, driving a Centurion tank around the driver training area on Bordon heath, that was the most difficult of them all due to the sheer physical strength involved, the vehicles used on these tank experience days are mostly armoured personnel carriers or self-propelled guns, fully automatic gearboxes and very little else to worry about, if it ain't a Centurion or a Chieftain, it ain't a tank.
I did take my HGV test, class 2, around the time that the compulsory HGV test came into being sometime around 1970 in Germany.