Twobob

The whole point of a cbt is to get a good 2-3 hours on the bike in a safe environment to get the feel of the bike before the road. If they can't do that then they fail as a school and are responsible for any accidents that might happen on the road part.

Hi all so I passed both mods first time at Enfield. Was uneventful mod 1 with no minors but a lot of heavy breathing, felt like id run the 100 meters and I'm quite a fit guy. Mod 2 I was equally nervous before the test but had a really nice examiner called Keith who I joked with when putting my helmet over my head with the radio falling off as my ears are big I said my ears are like satellites and he laughed and said it normally helps if your ears are big for it to stay on. If you can find a way to joke I find it puts you at ease and shows your not a serious stuck up bugger and treat them like a human. So went out to the bike got the oil level horn and pillion effects on the bike questions done fine. Onto the road was going fine until we got to a narrow industrial estate road jammed up with traffic from a dustcart going very slow emptying bins about 100 feet ahead. After about 4-5 minutes we get 2 cars from the dustcart and he says "if we can squeeze through that gap, it would get us out of this quicker". So I go to squeeze between the dustcart and an oncoming car when another van comes and makes the gap tighter I stop between the now moving dustcart and the now tiny gap and am thinking f**k I've failed, this is a terrible spot to be in. Waited for the gap to open up again and went through. This stage was also meant to be my independent ride as he oddly said instead of following road signs to somewhere gave me a long list "take the 3rd exit right and then 2nd right then 3rd left" (I think because it was a short urban backroad route with no big road signs) this was all too much to remember and I went wrong and he said do a U turn in the neck of the next left turn and come back on ourselves which I did fine. The final and worst part of the test I was coming upto a roundabout called 6 flags from enfield towards chingford and I stupidly assumed it was 40 for some idiotic reason, accelerated hard to the car in front and all of a sudden a bus 200 foot ahead let out an immense cloud of grey smoke (turbo probably went) which made me slow dramatically. Got back to the test centre and the magic words "you passed but only just" he said he was looking down at his speeedo thinking if the needle moves one more mm its game over as I was doing 34 at the point the bus let out the smoke. If that bus turbo hadn't of let go I would have failed for sure so the gods were on my side. He said the rest of the ride was perfect so only got one minor for speed. So happy its over and good luck to anyone reading going to take it.