elizabethf

Yup my first off was doing this. But I cushioned the bike against the road with my foot.... That was my fear I think!!

It been lovely are dry the last two days typically! hah! I havent decided when to try again.

In honesty, it hasnt really scarred me to not get back on or anything. I will probably need to go up and down that road a few times before the next test so i dont make it a problem in my own head but i think because I bailed pretty well and the bike is ok it's just business as usual. The stubborn part of me wants to just rebook, i hate the idea of waiting *too long*

Oh, I definitely grabbed some brake! I shouldve left the bike to right itself when i felt it moving but brain decided it knew better, panicked, grabbed, down i go! As I say, slow enough no injury to me or the bike as it was like slow motion falling now i sit and think about it all. Lesson here: dont panic, ever!

Hmm does all seem a bit odd. But its about to go under new ownership so might change. It's the only one in the city and surrounding area so not like I can go off to a competitor easily.

Yeah it's two days plus about two hours before the test. Definitely overkill for me. The people ive been paired with for resits are usually green to it so do thinks like riding at 40 in a (safe!) 60, forget lifesavers or indicators or something, so I trail behind a lot as I require less 'fixing' I just get given directions as though on a mock test. Id rather do one half day the day before to get used to the bike and different roads I might use and then get on with it the next day!

You can do one with his thread

Don't worry about it! Things happen on bikes as they do in a car. The first few times I went out on a bike i was scared of the what ifs but your confidence builds and it doesn't worry you. Ive ridden if the conditions yesterday many times before, on the same bike as well as my bike at home, and never had a problem, just yesterday was unfortunate. Straight line, starting to plan a right turn but a way off yet so no turning. It was an SV 650. The bike lives for another day! Ive been using it fairly irregularly for a little while now because it's actually my OH's, and he passed a while ago. He's been casually selling it for a little while and it now may well have a buyer. So I guess I have to get on with it really. I just REALLY REALLY dont want to waste two-three more days of annual leave again to ride round and round and round AGAIN and learn nothing new as I can actually ride the damned bike. Just never seem to get lucky to the conditions on the test. Twice ive had two drivers unsure about their indicators, now I fell off instead to make it interesting! Sent my instructor a massive long text this morning (with sorry at the beginning and the end, maybe should have put a TL;DR in there for him really) so see what he suggests.... and wants me to pay.... Ive spent £800 on failure at this point (you are all gagging at £187, thats the cost of a resit, the first attempt there's a £425 charge)

Coming off and landing on your feet is pretty bad ass you'll have to teach me that one when the bike feels suddenly heavy to one side.... its time to leave!

The real question: Can I call myself a biker true now?

Im in two minds of waiting until march or getting back on the horse. Need to sleep on it i guess.

I was quite close to being a bit like f**k it Im done with it! BUT the examiner who took me out the first time was around and he ran over, and said "Look I KNOW you can ride and you're safe because I've seen it, so get in after New Year and you WILL pass it" I then joked with him so I didnt cry that I could have passed that one too, I just decided the test was over and hopped off

My training day buddy was also failed for going to slow (she went after me so slowed down a bit to be sure, both me and the rider before said the bike was sliding) on bends.... at least I can make her laugh else she would definitely cry! I cry in private, in a dark room

Oh and the only reason Im not drinking is because Im at work, had to go in straight after. As you can see, Im working really hard.

Damn I should have found the piece of brake lever on the road and kept it as a keepsake.... funny little necklace maybe? ;P I'd get back on the horse but I dont really have a bike right now! And no more tests available now until the nw year, which is a very long time to sit and stew over things. I was a bit mortified when I looked at the bike laying there sadly on the ground. Slightly more mortified all the funky and weird stuff happens on test day as well. WHY ME lol. I am quite stubborn so will probably end up resitting but Im a little tired of riding round and round and round the city and the test routes now! And the £187 per time.....

This is a bit of a strange one unless you were exceptionally slow as to seriously impede other traffic and it would appear you are not confident. The highway code (rule 146) states "Do not treat speed limits as a target. It's often not appropriate or safe to drive at the speed limit". Of course, if it's safe (and I assume they consider it's appropriate when it's safe, though I can't find that defined in the highway code) and doesn't conflict with rule 125 when riding in wet weather or around bends etc, then you can but I rarely ever see minimum speed limit signs when driving. I can't see what is appropriate in the highway code. It might not be courteous to other road users to drive slowly but think it would be wrong to be penalised for riding say, 20mph in a 30 zone when there isn't a minimum speed sign (not that I would if it was safe to go a bit faster). Just to add my friend got two minors on this and then just given an out right fail for driving too slow. Her argument was that out in the country roads there was mud, it was wet and a bit slippery from previous wet and icy days, and it was starting to rain, so she held off a little knowing bends were coming up. He still decided it was a fail.

Today I had my first fall! Lots of mud and wet on the roads so the bike had a little glide shall we say (don’t ask me to explain because I simply can’t, one minute it was upright at ~25mph next I’m looking at the bike on the floor). I did a pretty awesome dismount... landed on my feet. Only snapped the end off the break too, so no awful damage. Shame it was my Mod 2 I decided to dump the bike on the floor though Jokes aside being on the nervy side it makes me a little concerned to go through the whole thing again. Bit defeated now. Think it’s almost a sign!

I hate this vid. On the one hand, I understand why people didnt step in, but on the other I wish people did!!

To be fair I find most of [mention]Six30[/mention]'s comments to be dry/dark humour/ sarcasm and I like that, however thats maybe because Ive been on the forum now almost 6 months so get that? Overall its a good forum and the occasional weird one gets soon weeded out by admin/ mods. If you want sexist, you need to find that old thread where it was Bandicota versus [mention]Hoggs[/mention]

It's not really that bad now is it! I just wanted to post a triggered gif, it doesnt massively bother me the old 'women drivers' thing.... worse has been said!

My 125 is a cat D! It hadn't been stolen, I assume someone learning to ride had a minor-ish off and caused a bit of an issue on the handlebars. Fortunately it was a very simple fix (just needed new screws) and you wouldn't know it was Cat D. Only scuff on it now is on the mirror where I placed it on the floor I probably wont outright say its cat D when I sell it but the price will be lower and if asked I will of course say yes and where the issue was, and take more photos. In this case I dont like that he lied when asked about it, and then tried to downplay the wall thing....

Neither work... but when i opened in a new tab and deleted some random bits from the URL I could see it

Bizarre as f**k but YAY congrats!