Slowlycatchymonkey

3 vans for 8 riders?!?! Were they carrying fresh bikes for you?

The counter steering thing does my head in. Some time ago one Jonny Big Bollocks instructor I had was busy trying to assert his superiority (as is often the want of inadequate people) on that knackered old topic and in the end in the manner of a school child I covered my ears and loudly said “Not listening, not listening, don’t make me pick apart something that happens regardless, we would have all fallen off by now if it didn’t” I thought oops Im gonna get picked on now but he just laughed and moved onto his next ‘big I am’ topic

I really want to go to the TT just once, just to see what it’s like but the accommodation sells out long before and the ferry prices are daft. Heyho.

Cheddar Ales are the best. Filtered enough that even someone gluten free can drink their stout. Marvellous!

So XCP took the anti corrosion crown fairly well. Thanks for that @jedibiker

Screwfix was the cheapest for surveyors spray paint, or Amazon if you can’t be arsed to go out

Oh I see, said the person who didn’t understand and hasn’t seen it before... I’m climbing back in my bubble now.

If you can do the figure of 8 ok you’re already doing two uturns with no problems so maybe try doing increasingly tighter figure of eights. When I did mod 1 I got myself some surveyors spray paint (same as road marking paint except it eventually wears off) and drew 4 lines on the ground in a yard with two of those line being a metre closer together than they would be in a test. At first the inside lines seemed impossible but within half an hour or so of practising they were easy. It boosts your confidence if you know you can easily make the turn in a smaller space than required. I also marked dots to represent the cones and I’d do the uturn and the slalom n figure of eight on my way out or back for a ride. Got to the point where I thought about painting more on for a full blown obstacle course No-one minded the markings because they knew it was temporary and I ended up having to remark them for someone else who saw me in the yard having a go and decided he wanted to do his test too. I think we provided some entertainment cos they were always happy to see me, plenty of waves n smiles and laughs.. shit they were laughing AT me

What is? What I wonder about when riding a bicycle?

Two years ago I coated our rowing machines metal parts in acf 50. They are renowned for becoming rusty beyond use if left in a garage. I inspected it this morning and there’s not a dot of rust anywhere, not on a single chain link. It’s not been idle, it’s been used a lot by my sons. Of course this isn’t same as a bike that will burn it off the exhaust or get wet or washed but it certainly made a huge difference to that item. The running machine next to it wasn’t treated and has rusted.

At a mere 30mph on a bicycle I immediately start thinking about whats gonna happen if the flimsy wheel and skinny tyre hit an unseen pothole They never state what speed the bicycle has been tested to and I always wonder about the integrity of the bike at high speed.

I hope the cyclist caught him up and slotted him.

On a 50cc

Right I’m off to find that rowing machine I keep looking at so if you don’t hear from me for a while it’s cos I’ve done myself a mischief and am curled up in a ball somewhere

The choice of kings.

I wasn’t disagreeing with you as I said it’s complicated, off putting and costs too much and yes it does push people to just get a car licence instead. A lot of CBT places are taken up by kids simply redoing their CBT until they can afford a car, they’ve no intention of spending out twice, once for the essential car licence and again for a full bike licence.

My understanding is we have to abide by EU criteria and include for example slow riding, emergency stop etc but it’s left to individual countries as to how that implemented. So if course rule loving Britain went bananas and made it as difficult as possible. I think the mod one is unnecessarily easy to fail. Does it really matter if someone needs another go to get up to speed through a speed trap or doesn’t do an over the shoulder check for traffic in what’s effectively a closed tennis court with only you in it- bizarre! I can understand having watched some of the hopeless cases out of the window taking there mod 1 that they really aren’t ready to be on the road and it must give the examiners a slightly less harrowing experience filtering out those wallies before they get on the road with them.

I suppose what you need to know is did the serious accident/death rates for the first year post test (statistically the most likely time period for an accident) show a significant downturn after the mod one was introduced? Before doing a CBT I was annoyed it wasn’t something that was included with my car licence but after doing one with a load of 16/17yr olds Im glad it exists, partly because it turned out I wasn’t gonna be a threat to Ana Carrasco cos learning to ride a mobike had more in common with patting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time than driving a car but also because the 16/17 year olds were so utterly clueless about the road I was genuinely frightened for them. I spoke to the instructor about how frightening letting them loose on the road with no knowledge was and he agreed wholeheartedly, he said he’s glad they get at least the one days training but it’s so much worse now than it use to be because kids used to sit in the car bored looking out of the window where they would slowly pick up road awareness for example how a roundabout worked or what a parent meant about another driver dithering etc but now theyre mostly clueless because they’re looking at their phones. I think the test is complicated, off putting and the whole thing costs too much but we’re one of the safest countries in the world to drive in so something must be ok about it.

I waited sometime for a punchline and nothing Wonder how many people were sitting there thinking god this is a waste of my time, I really don’t give a f**k about this. Does anyone really need to be told this stuff?

Enjoy

Vid of the town where you live 7/10 Music 1/10 - wot the hell? Taking advantage of people’s curiosity to inflict auditory pain, just cruel. The wonky fair ground drum machine experiment is still hurting my brain! Surely there’s some Expat forum that actually deserves this stuff? See @learningtofly it can be done in 1.40 seconds

Unlikely to happen, chinese electrics are world renowned don’t you know

In wot way? It melting itself to you or catching fire?

Dunno LTF I mean one pain will take pole position n distract you from the other so might be a good idea