AlunJ

Passed my test with 2 minors this morning woohoo! 1st minor for undue hesitation, apparently I was a bit "lethargic" getting up to speed. Not like me at all lol. 2nd minor for awareness and planning. Very pleased and was great to finally get my new honda out for a spin this afternoon

I used to do the exact same thing. When I'm stopped, I turn the bars slightly to the right and once ready to pull away look straight down the road where you are heading. It's all too easy to look at what you're trying to avoid and that's exactly where the bike will go. Practice makes perfect and you'll get there

Thanks all. Mod2 is booked, unfortunately not til end of October as only time I could fit in with my work schedule and available dates, can't wait!

You'll be relieved to hear (well I am anyway) I passed. 1 rider fault which was 48kph on the hazard avoidance. I'll get over that. Thanks for all the help and advice ladies and gents.

Thank you! Fingers crossed!

Turned out to actually be on a hornet but equally it pulls itself along nicely.

Thanks for all your messages and advice. Just got back from my Mod1 training session and it couldn't have gone any better. The big bike is so much easier to handle than I could have expected and I only knocked a cone over once through my own overconfidence lol. Just to get it right on the day now but feeling much more positive than I was. I didn't like getting back on the 125 one bit haha. Off to get some rescue remedy I think

Thank you, hope you're right. Probably breeze that now and completely cock up something else haha.

The U turn is what's troubling me the most. I was shocking at the slalom on CBT but I think that boiled down to not having any experience on the bike, I've practiced that since and seem to be okay with that. Sometimes I can get the U turn spot on and other times I feel the bike dropping towards the ground and so find myself put my foot down. Hopefully I'll have it spot on tomorrow ready for the test. Looking forward to the big bike and will be learning on an sv650

Hello all! Having been driving for 11 years I did my CBT end of June and have been riding a 125 since on advice of the instructor. I've got a 1000 miles under my belt and decided I want to get the tests done and get on a big bike, and so I start my DAS training tomorrow and have a test booked Thursday. I've been trying to practice slow speed manouvres in quiet car parks etc on the 125 (a Yamaha MT-125) and have found it really difficult. I've mentioned this to friends who ride and they all seem to say that the bigger bike will be so much easier. Will I find that to be true? I've seen it recommended a few times to go straight from CBT to DAS and I do wonder how people can skip the whole pootling around on a 125