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E-bikes that are legal can hit roughly 20mph without assistance on a flat surface. Just a little nudge puts them over that limit. And a lot of effort thrown in will push an e-bike well above the 20mph limit.

Would a reasonable cyclist go any faster than this on a narrow street with numerous obstacles? Probably not.

Would a reasonable cyclist go as fast as he/she would like to on a wide road with next to no obstacles? Absolutely.

Local councils should be doing their due diligence in setting these 20mph limits rather than having the whole area as a blanket 20 mph zone. More people would respect it if this were the case.

OP: Just learn where they place speed cameras / what the vans look like and problem solved.

Welcome to the "second attempt" club

Nice feeling knowing that the stressful part is over.

That being said, the quality of drivers and riders here are much better.

 

Holy shit how bad are they back home!?!?

Very few drivers over there have situational awareness. Even the ones who obey the law right down to the letter can be oblivious of their surroundings. Over here, people are a lot more aware of their surroundings.

Even sitting here typing this makes me glad I am riding over here as opposed to playing in the minefield back at home.

Over here, drivers and riders are taught much better habits (use of mirrors) and to add, there are more considerations with respect to motorcycles (filtering legal), so I think the drivers here are being held to a higher standard.

Different countries and regions have different testing procedures and different passing thresholds.

If you tested in say central London, the pass rates are much lower than if you were up far north. This could extend to "if you tested in the UK, pass rates are much lower than in eastern Europe."

I have to admit that after having gone through the mod 1 and 2 tests recently that the tests here are significantly harder versions of the tests back in my home country. That being said, the quality of drivers and riders here are much better.

I recently tried to hire a bike out for the same kind of thing. No such luck. Bit the bullet and shelled out money for a full DAS.

Only way around it is if you have good connections, then you can borrow a bike.

oh it has that weird one now where you can drive through the middle doesn't it! tis a silly place

And I still think it's quite ridiculous.

But then there's this:

http://www.swindonweb.com/uploaded_files/1167/images/lifemagi1.jpg

If I could do it all over again, I still would have picked the same location and same school. Excellent instructors and the school (Lightning) puts its students in a position where the mod 2 test is passable.

Happy to have passed attempt #2 after failing the first attempt on a missed signal.

Oxford has some strange roundabouts.

E-stop was bang on 50. Even though I was comfortable with this, I didn't feel like pushing it further.

With the swerve though, I was more than happy to push it after lowballing it on the first attempt. Got 58. I thought that was high until I saw people on here posting results in the low 70's.

Thought I'd update here.

Failed mod 2 on a missed signal. More or less a clean sheet otherwise

Confusing roundabout

My re-do is early in September.

I had this discussion way back when. It's one of the big reasons I am against self driving cars. The moral viewpoint of someone else should not be imposed on others, especially if it's me.

If a failure occurs and the decision is my life or the life of a cat or dog, I'd hate for the extremist views of PETA to be the death of me.

Mod 2 is Friday. I guess I can't move it as it currently stands, so whatever the weather decides to do, I'll have to deal with it.

Just an update here. I just passed my mod 1 test and have my mod 2 test booked.

Took the advice here and did it through a school.

More to come later. Will also post a review.

Motorway driving is quite controlled. Common sense would dictate that you aren't taking a learner out in peak traffic and you would only be taking a learner out after the learner has demonstrated safe control when driving at higher speeds.

Of course this would never be mandatory, but I would really urge that learners pick up motorway driving. It's a basic skill.

"The change will only apply to learner drivers of cars - learner motorcyclists won’t be allowed to have motorway lessons."

I've never heard of any company hiring out bikes for Mod 1; I guess most of the demand is already taken care of by the training schools.

According to this thread from another forum you can do the test on a bike you've borrowed from a mate, but they would need to ride the bike to and from the test centre for you (as your licence doesn't allow you to ride a 600 on the road, not even with L plates). And this is a bit perverse, but you'd also need to need to have insurance to ride the bike on the road (even though your licence doesn't let you). So it's all a bit complicated and probably expensive too by the time you've coughed up for the insurance. If it were me I'd be phoning round the training schools and trying to find the one that has the earliest slot available. The schools that know what they're doing phone the test centres regularly to book up cancellation slots, and they can often arrange a test the same week.

I have two training schools in mind right now.

I passed the theory test early on Saturday and by the time I got home, a lot of the training schools had closed. I had managed to speak with a few of them and there ended up being two of interest. It looks like this is the route I am headed for. I thought I'd try an alternative with some time on my side before confirming anything with a training school.

I appreciate your advice here on finding a training school that can book this as early as possible. I will probably shop around beyond the two I had in mind.

As much as I want to fill up my imaginary garage, I am moving about too much, so I reliably bring around more than a single motorcycle (even finding storage / parking for the one is enough of a hassle).

Probably won't be looking for a second bike until next season.

I get the concern about the mod 1 test being prone to motorycles getting dropped which is why I offer a deposit. I hoped my years of experience and deposit would help out here.

Dont any of your local training schools provide bikes for training and the test?

They do, but they do it in a manner where it isn't viable for me.

Some of them are only willing to offer it in a package where module 1 and module 2 training are done at the same time. Others are booked quite far in advanced and don't have anything coming up soon.

The module 1 test looks simple enough (I've looked at a few videos on line and read several testimonies). Back where I lived before coming here, I had completed a similar test and passed it with ease. So I want to get this out of the way as soon as I can so that I can focus on module 2. I'd rather not have module 1 lingering over me any longer.

Did my CBT last week with Advantage Wimbledon. It was done on a YBR 125.

Having driven on the other side of the road for all of my life up to now, I confidently made it through the CBT up until the point we went out on the road. Once out on the road, it took me a few minutes to adjust to driving on the other side, but I made it through okay. The parking lot maneuvers from slaloming to figure 8 to u-turn were actually quite easy. The emergency stop was probably the hardest thing in the parking lot. Even though I say it was the hardest thing, it was still relatively easy.

Was a great refresher and introduction to driving on the left.

Hello, I am looking to get my module 1 done sooner rather than later and I am looking to hire a motorcycle to do this on.

As I am doing the unrestricted one, it would have to be a 600cc+. I would prefer to do this on something lighter.

I am open to the price for the hire and making a reasonable deposit.

I am located in the London area.

Thanks!