Brush Up for Motorcycle Test

UrbanFret · 30-09-2018 10:05pm

zubair wrote: »

Did mine on an SV650s so had clip ons too, never had a problem with the power, lots of back brake helps. Practice and it'll be easy. I just did figures of 8 in a car park until I was consistently doing my turns within 2 spaces.

You have the route now too, you'll ace it.

Fair play Zubair. I decided against using my SV650s .I felt more confident with the schools bike on the u turn and slow ride (The right steering stopper is broken on the 08 CBF600 ,rather conveniently

) . I can do them on the SV fine.That was just a call I made.Probably made no difference in reality.

zubair · 30-09-2018 10:19pm

Ah they're much easier on the cbf, a wise decision.

IrishGrimReaper · 01-10-2018 8:07am

That T-Junction at 20:05 is the spot I dropped the bike, because it's on a hill and had crash bars it nearly did a full roll

zubair · 01-10-2018 10:13am

Don't do that on the test

UrbanFret · 01-10-2018 10:44am

IrishGrimReaper wrote: »

That T-Junction at 20:05 is the spot I dropped the bike, because it's on a hill and had crash bars it nearly did a full roll

Did you stall? "If you stall you fall" you'll be grand, have a few goes at that junction. Give her a bit of throttle, the tester won't hear you unless you red line. Hold the back break until she bites and ease away.

IrishGrimReaper · 01-10-2018 10:59am

The tester is in a car with one other person isn't he?

I dropped it because while stopped I turned the wheel to go right and gave a bit of throttle... gave too much throttle and shat myself and used the front brake, this pushed all the weight to the front right of the bike and that was it, no stopping her then. The wheels ended up pointing to the sky :pac:

To be fair it was my first time riding anything different than a 125cc Varadero(which fate would have it got sold yesterday too).