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I believe the Highway Code says that you should always allow people to overtake regardless of their speed, although I am certain it was something in the theory test revision. Essentially it is that you are not the police, so what other people do is nothing to do with you. If the lane to the left is clear then by causing traffic to needlessly take evasive action by braking or changing lanes to undertake you then you are at fault. I assume you were heading towards Croydon on the A23 Purely Way? That is the only 40mph road in Purely with two lanes, as it is only a single lane heading into Purley. As the road there bends to the left, although not significantly to be an issue, I could see it being taken as a sign of poor awareness if you force people to have to move to the left and decreasing their visibility to pass you.

I assume the two left behind to practice manoeuvres would instead go out on the road when the instructor gets back. That is how it was when I first completed the CBT. There were two instructors in the morning for the stuff on the yard, but then only one went on the road whilst the other, I think, had an appointment with a DAS client. I have no idea what the other two did as I was in the first pair to go out, but when we got back we received our paperwork and went home whilst the other two then went off for their road training.

To add to the above, you will do better in a two-to-one environment with a good instructor than you will one-on-one with a bad one. Someone who does not inspire your confidence, or even gets impatient with you, will not help even if you have their undivided attention. And whatever you do in the mean time, you will end up having to retake the CBT anyway. So do not get too caught up on individual training as being most important, but make the quality of the instructor your priority. Look online for recommendations, try speaking to them first to see how you feel. Do you know anyone who rides that you could ask for recommendations? Hopefully not at the same school you used! Some schools offer a pre-CBT, which is just time doing exercises on the bike without the pressure of having to complete specific activities. That sounds like it would be better for you if you feel that, even with a better instructor, you will not be able to complete the CBT without the extra experience first.

What camera to get depends on your budget, where you want to mount it, and what features you want. Personally I have an SJCAM SJ4000 which I mount on my bars and record all my rides. But I only use it as a learning aid, which nowadays means to review specific incidents, if there are any, where I think I missed something or made a mistake. The only time I have ever shown any of my footage to anyone else has been following an accident to get advice on what I did wrong. So fantastic quality is not that important to me, although for a very cheap and now quite old camera it is still pretty good. And I carry a bag of batteries around with me, which depending on the brand last between 90 minutes and two hours at 720p30. And being a GoPro style block shape I would not want to mount it on a helmet, but you may not be bothered about that. But I do want to upgrade, mainly to get something with image stabilization and I am not sure what to get. I believe the new GoPro with stabilization only records at high bit rates even in the lowest modes, so will use a lot of disk space to store, and quickly fill a memory card. The SJ4000 is 100MB per minute at 720p30, it also offers 1080p30 but I have never needed that. The Sony cameras have a elongated shape which makes them better for helmet mounting, but offer fewer resolution and frame rate options than GoPros despite similar capabilities. They just offer a number of preset options rather than letting you pick any combination, and they also are regarded as having a truly awful interface, but they do have higher and lower bit rate mode options. The new Drift camera I automatically ruled out simply because it does not have a removable battery. Unless you are buying a dedicated bike mounted camera system, like the Innovv, they having it powered by the bike means losing waterproofing. Which is fine so long as it does not rain. Sadly, at least for me, they all seem to have one major deficiency that makes the choice difficult.

Do not try to push yourself too hard, take it easy and let your confidence build back up. And if you have the stock CST tyres then get them replaced. Two years ago I was going around a corner and thought I had avoided a patch of mud in the road but the bike just went over, with no time to react. I rode home, about 30 miles, which went okay but it turned out I had broken my elbow. After recovering from surgery I felt mentally okay about riding, yet I became very cautious approaching corners and my confidence just got worse every time I rode. So I just gradually rebuilt my confidence. Firstly by riding around the neighbouring local streets, the next time around my part of town, after that adding in neighbouring parts, and so on. An annoying and slow process, but it worked. I guess failure on one thing made simpler ones more difficult, whilst starting with success on the little things made greater ones seem easier. But late last year I had been riding in heavy rain, which had stopped, and was braking gently whilst going in a straight line to a red traffic light. Unfortunately the same thing happened again, the bike just went over with no time to respond. It happened when I crossed a very smooth section of road where the tarmac had been manually laid and smoothed around a manhole cover. I had read previously that the Yamaha's stock tyres are supposed to be really bad, especially in wet conditions, and so I am pretty sure they were the cause of that accident. And in hindsight, given how quickly I went over, may have been the main cause of the other accident too. Once I recovered I made sure to get the tyres replaced before I would even get back on the bike. Given what happened last year I also had doubts about my confidence, so went straight to riding around the block to build it up again. Thankfully this time it did not seem necessary, so that ride quickly extended out and a couple of days later I was back riding around the countryside. The wheels on the YBR125 Custom are an award size though, and not the same as a regular YBR125. The only alternative tubeless tyres I could find to fit them are the Michelin City Pro. Although the tyre person I used could only get a tubbed version for the front wheel, so maybe the tubeless one there has been discontinued? I cannot say I have noticed any difference, but they look better and have not been a problem, although I have only ridden in light rain. http://moto.michelin.co.uk/GB/en/tyres/products/city-pro.html

From Croydon, B275, Old Farleigh Road, Farleigh Road, Sunny Bank, B269, B2026, A22, A26, A259. Or from the B2026 take the B2028, B2112, B2116, B2117, A281, Saddlescombe Road, Devil's Dyke Road, Dyke Road. It depends where in London you are coming from, and how leisurely you want to get there. But in my opinion the two nicest ways to arrive in Brighton are the A259 along the coast from Newhaven or crossing the South Downs using Saddlescombe Road / Devil's Dyke Road. And the B269 is one of the nicest way to head due straight south out of London, going up and over the North Downs, as the other main routes out are the A22, A23, A217, or A24. I have my own tool to manually create GPX files, and then just use the Runtastic app to follow them on my phone. Not the greatest solution as it is not a proper GPS, but I cannot find a decent iPhone app which lets you use your own GPX files. They all seem to want to just use waypoints so they can adjust to the best route as you go along. Which is great if you just want to go from A to B but I wan to follow a specific route.

Mind, you could just wear summer gloves all year round if you instead attach muffs to the bike in winter.

The fourth time on the bike. I was both building confidence and teaching myself gears, so the first three times on the bike were just riding the local side streets next to mine. The fourth time was the first I went out of the the neighbouring areas, and was approaching a box junction when the traffic light for a crossing beyond it turned yellow. It was early on a Sunday morning and the road was empty, but I grabbed the brake not wanting to stop on the box junction and instantly went over. Having never driven, and not ever ridden a bicycle since a child, and that was in a town with cycle routes so never on a major road, it never occurred to me that they would never put traffic lights on the far edge of a box junction. So I just instinctively reacted before seeing that there was space on the other side of the box where I could have stopped safely. I did not ride much more that year as around the same time I became ill, but there were a few times I fell on junctions of local roads due to stalling, and then almost a repeat of that accident. I had only managed around 200 more miles since, and a lot of that practicing in a car park, when someone on a forum offered to ride with me to help build my confidence. On the way home a light turned yellow after he crossed a junction, and I felt too close to it stop safely so was going to continue through when he put his hand up in a stop gesture. So instinctively I did, with the same obvious result. At least since then all my accidents have just been bad luck rather than stupidity! And I can still say I have not hit anything.

Sportsbikeshop.co.uk They generally seem to have the cheapest prices, and have a great returns policy so that if something does not fit you can just return it, which includes helmets. Although that obviously only covers fitting in your own home, obviously things like wind noise you will only discover once it is too late regardless of how you buy.

Well if it was addressed to me, then thanks for the insight. Although even if you could not see through the really heavy sarcasm, or me saying that I know how bikes corner, whatever did you think I meant by "this is the era of fake news, and it is therefore my right to wilfully choose to believe something that I know is not true" ? Despite the lack of popularity of my anecdotes, I made another observation by following bikes yesterday. Although this time in town, so too slow for any large leaning observations. I was travelling between Park Lane and Vauxhall on the way home, and several other bikers seemed to be going the same way. More than I am used to seeing together as I do not commute. It was quite funny seeing them squeeze into every gap they could find. My filtering is likely quite rubbish, but it works for me. Mainly I only bother when stuck behind a big queue of traffic. And even then, usually just to sit behind the front car rather than ignoring stop lines. Anyway, no matter how often they ended up in front of me, my rubbish filtering still saw me keep catching them up, and at times even getting ahead of them. Glad I do not have to do that every day, but it kept me amused that there was so little difference between always trying to get to the front and my cautious and laid back approach.

I do, which is precisely why actually seeing it and realizing was disconcerting. But I enjoy myself plenty enough without wanting to get my knees down or care about the edge of my tyres. It is just like how people are happy to fly when they do not need to think about how something so heavy stays in the air. And the only motorsport I watch is speedway, so not as much leaning going on there. But whilst I have obviously seen bits of other bike racing, there is a huge difference an amateur idiot like me between trundling along a road at 60mph towards corners obscured with trees and a professional going over 100mph into a corner with visibility all the way around and no oncoming traffic trying to get out every bit of performance. The two are far too different into how the corners are taken. Like I said, I know how bikes have to corner, but there is a difference between knowing something academically and actually seeing and experiencing it. If you ride in a group then you will get to follow other bikes at the same speed and it all looks normal. But being on my own on a slow bike I never get to catch anyone else up, and when people overtake me they quickly disappear into the distance rather than then slow down to my speed. So it is not really that surprising I have not been in that position of seeing it before, even without having to have my eyes closed. But it was just a strange observation that after 14k miles over the past two years it is not something I have ever seen in person and so it had that "airplane falling from the sky" effect. Obviously in future I will keep such things to myself.

The point is that as much as I know you have to lean to turn, it happens automatically and is not something I want to think about. So it just freaked me out a little seeing how obviously you need to lean at those speeds, having never had opportunity to see it before. Because obviously I cannot see myself, and as I ride alone I have never had anyone on a bike in front of me.

This is mainly just random nonsense with no real point to it, but I refuse to believe that I lean over on corners. To be clear, I reluctantly accept that I too have to obey the laws of physics, and I know how bikes go around corners. I even have a camera mounted on my bars which inexplicably tilts the view a little when going around them too. But this is the era of fake news, and it is therefore my right to wilfully choose to believe something that I know is not true. So on Sunday I was crawling along on my little 125 along the A272 between Winchester and Petersfield when a bike when whizzing past. Which is not that unusual, and usually they are very quickly out of sight. But there were some cars several hundred yards ahead that they were stuck behind for a while. I have only ever ridden alone, so the only time I am behind other bikers is in town. Like just before getting back home on Sunday, when I made a lovely sound as I locked the rear wheel. A pizza scooterist had moved in front of me and suddenly slammed on the brakes as he was about to go past a big pot hole. Not over it. Not even having to swerve around it. Taking a line that was passing the side of it. But that is a separate, and more boring, anecdote from the day. In town things are slow enough to not need much leaning. Which is good, because it being something I never do. It was a bit different though when going at 60mph, the same as the not-too-distant cars, and seeing the bike stuck behind them having to lean. It made me slow down more than I needed to when I reached the same corner as I, someone who never leans, was most definitely not going to do that. Besides, I am not scheduled to fall off my bike until December — given accidents in October 2015 and November 2016 — so I need to stay upright for a few more months yet. But it was quite disconcerting to see someone leaned over so much doing the same speed as me rather than when zooming off at 100mph. Thankfully that biker were soon able to overtake the cars and were gone, leaving me to the comfort of my delusion. And the other bikers I saw, and there were loads, were either quickly out of sight or going the other way. As I say, there is no real point to this post. I guess though I just need to get used to seeing other bikes going around corners so all this leaning business becomes normal. Then instead of worrying about how scary it looks, I can just laugh at their unnecessary stupidity knowing they could have just stayed upright around them like me.

Why would you want to protect every part of your body except for your legs and crotch? I wear ordinary jeans in town, but would be hesitant even on a 40mph road with them, let alone anything faster. And unless you have muffs, for gloves I would recommend having separate summer and winter ones. The difference between ones right for the conditions and ones that are not is huge. Also, especially on a motorway, you will want to wear ear plugs. Your ears need protecting too, and they will suffer even if you do not have an accident.

I used to go to wide on corners, part of the problem was not looking in the right place. You will have been told to look where you want to go, so when turning into a side street I would look right down it, which would mean on a left turn going wide into the centre, or on a right turn crossing the oncoming lane to turn right into the centre of it. You have to be more specific with where you look, and so look into the centre of the lane you are going to use, not just the centre of the road. I do not know if that applies to you, but it was one of the things I wish i was told. Otherwise it just sounds like you need to practice your clutch control and balance. The former is probably causing the the latter. At slow speeds the throttle is just too crude to control them, a tiny movement will make too big a difference. And as you are using your hand for balance and steering it is too easy to make little movements inadvertently. So instead you keep the throttle open to keep the revs up, then hold it there and instead slip the clutch as everyone else has described to control the speed. Each bike it different to the exact position you need to hold the clutch to reach the biting point (which is also called the friction zone by Americans), so you just need to learn this by feel. But if you are gentle with your action this is not something you need to worry about too much yet, it just adds a tiny delay before setting off. Then when using clutch control you only pull the lever as much as needed to drop the speed. So to avoid shooting off to quickly from a start, just let the clutch out more slowly. (And that way if you mess up your gears changes so find yourself accidentally setting off in second you should still be able to do so without stalling.) It is better to stop too short of a line than beyond it, but if you feel that happening just come off the brake and use the clutch with a little throttle to keep the bike crawling forwards. Even speed up a little if you have to. But you will feel more confident about your balance if you have the engine revving away and using the clutch to control your speed than if it is struggling with low revs and you are worrying it will stall. On normal right-angled junctions in town though it is not unusual to need to slip the clutch a little, but at this stage you are probably going around corners pretty slowly that you definitely will need to. In second gear the throttle is even more crude at slow speeds than in first, so if you try to use it alone you will risk going too fast and wide or stalling.

Unless one of the springs is not holding the two halves of shoe together then they are both working! They keep the shoe away from the drum unless separated by the camshaft, which as says Bianco2564 says only happens at one end. I do not know about Honda, but Yamaha's parts catalogue call those rubber things "dampers". Although unless changing the sprocket you did not need to take those out. Once you have loosened the wheel just just roll it forwards to create enough slack to take the chain off the sprocket, and then the reverse when putting it all back together. It is easier just leaving all those bits and bobs in the wheel. I guess brake3.jpg and brake4.jpg must have been too exciting for us.

Yes, but no. As I said, it explains the law. And as you say, it gives a reference to the specific section of legislation when it does. But those parts of the Highway Code themselves are not the law, only a layman's interpretation of it, mainly condensing everything into bullet points. My point being that arguing over the semantics of it as though that has any legal relevance, as the discussion here did, is a waste of time. All that is meaningful is what it describes, when it refers to "overtaking" or "filtering" it is does not intend to give any special meaning to those terms or imply that as both are used in different places they must be mutually exclusive. I do not even think the sections of the Highway Code which mention filtering are ones referencing a particular item of law anyway.

The Highway Code is a set of guidelines, it is not the law. It is therefore written to be easily understood, not in legal language. Part of the Highway Code is obviously to explain the law, because those rules are absolutes, but other parts are just best practices for the safety of all road users. But it is not meant to have its language taken so literally as to define legal concepts or find loopholes. And even where it does give legal guidance it is only a layman's explanation, not the letter of the law. It comes with a, perhaps naïve, expectation of common sense being applied to it. Overtaking is pulling out of the regular flow of traffic to make progress past slower moving or stationary vehicles, how can anyone think that filtering is anything other than a particular type of overtake? You can overtake without filtering, but you cannot filter without overtaking.

I had this, and did that, and it was easy. Obviously I was in a constant panic that my wheel would fall off but it never did. Get a Haynes manual, always useful to have, but it will take you through all the steps. And once you know how to get the wheel on and off you pretty much know how to replace brake shows and change the sprockets too!

Why would you not count? For example, yesterday I did 228 miles and 1,009 yards. Obviously I do not count it in feet, that would be weird. I also still "colour in" my map when I go on a bit of an A or B road for the first time. Both started out just as little things I did when learning. Judging my progress by how much farther I went, and to choose new roads to make riding around town to practice more interesting. But the map is way more interesting now and still gets me going places I never would have otherwise, and the mileage is done by GPS anyway so why not still look at it?

In fairness, it is a valid point Bianco2564 raises. Especially as you say this has been ruled on in court. Paragraph (1)(f) does apply to vehicles of 49cc or less, there is no exemption given as there is for paragraph (1)(g). And it specifically regards the original tread pattern of the tyre, it has nothing to do with things like cuts or bulges so I am unsure why you even mentioned those. For a court to have ruled that that tyre was legal they would have had to either ignored paragraph (1)(f) or interpreted in a specific way. That this is the case is also shown in the Highway Code only say "should" and not "MUST" in respective of moped tread. So I do not think it unreasonable to ask why this paragraph, which seems to be still the current law, did not affect the legality of the tyre when it is the issue being discussed. The only amendment I can see to paragraph (1)(f) was the one the 1990 fourth amendment that exempted it for "passenger vehicles other than motor cycles" when adding the more stringent requirements for a 1.6mm tread depth in order to comply with European regulation 89/459/EEC. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1981/regulation/9/made No one is disagreeing with you that it is legal. We are just wondering why when the law seems to require "the base of any groove which showed in the original tread pattern of the tyre" to be "clearly visible" regardless of engine size. The only guess I could make from the picture is that the "base of any groove" has been taken to mean the start of the grooves on the outermost part of the tyre, as those are still visible on the right. But I think most of us would naturally assume the base to mean the bottom, which would require the tread to remain some depth, no matter how minute, in order for the shape of the whole grove to remain clearly visible.

A television receiver in the line of sight of the driver remains illegal Maybe so. But as Joeman says, those 1986 regulations specifically define a television receiver as a cathode ray tube. And doing a search over the amendments, none include the word "television" so presumably that definition is still the one currently in place. Although those original regulations do add "or other cinematographic apparatus" but without a specific definition. So that presumably will be used to legally cover modern LCD televisions and the like. But my point about the regulations online being the original version is more general than that. the online version only requires a 1mm tread depth on any vehicle, for a notable example. The change to requiring 1.6mm on many vehicle types is only found in the 4th amendment of 1990. So what I am saying is you cannot simply read the regulations on that page and assume they are correct, as anything could have changed since then. You have to read everything, or else probably can pay the TSO for a current consolidated version.

I still cannot do corners and am super slow on them. That said, I assume when you are going around them you are paying attention to where you are going rather than the speedo? One thing I have realized is I am often not quite as slow in real terms as I realize. There was one for me at the weekend where I felt like I almost came to a stop on it, but looking back on video* I only dropped to 25mph! But also in situations when coming off the throttle approaching a corner only to see it open up, it can feel like I have lost a lot of speed yet when I look down I have only lost one or two mph. As for frustrated car drivers, I think part of the problem is not necessarily the speed going into a corner but the lack of acceleration coming out on a 125. It takes no time to drop from 60 to 40 to go into a corner, but on a small bike you cannot get that speed back as quickly as you can in a car, so they get frustrated because as soon as it opens up they could have just put their foot down. Making sure you are in the right gear so you have some acceleration helps. Something I often fail to do, so will be still be in fourth gear when trying to accelerate out from 30, say. The worst for me though are long sweeping corners, which make me get choppy on the throttle the more time I spend leaned over, and downhill corners. The combination of lean and gravity just makes it feel like I have no control. * One thing I did early on was buy a cheap camera (an SJ4000) as a learning aid and mount it on the handlebars to include the speedo so I could then review things, such as mistakes and how I took corners. I do think it has helped me a lot.

That page only shows the original 1986 regulations, and I do not think there is a consolidated current version online. According to a search there have been 109 amendments since then! http://www.legislation.gov.uk/all?title=The%20Road%20Vehicles%20%28Construction%20and%20Use%29%20%28Amendment%29 Happy reading!

That is all defined by the The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 and many subsequent amendments.