elizabethf

I too have an audi and can confirm the indicators work! Thank you, glad I could help a little!

IT WAS YOU!

Yup, when I asked how long I had to wait until I could try again, 10 days seemed gutting. Until I saw what was left My biggest worry is how awful the weather might be. Risk of cancellation higher! I was feeling normal again all afternoon and evening but my friend and the person I was training with just posted herself cutting up her L plates and now I feel sad again I think thats why I've taken it out on the 125 by refusing to ride it now... it's still on L plates so Im going to pretend I never failed or even took a test by pretending it doesnt exist for a little while! Yes, Im having a tantrum. Ill be level headed again in the morning!

Thanks! Sadly the next available date is in just over 3 weeks, they only do mod 2 once a week. sometimes they do Tuesdays to treat us round here. The suspense of waiting!

By the way not trying to be defensive at all, all very valid in what's being said, and as I said I dont disagree with the examiner, just that person and the fact they are allowed to hold a licence hahaha - although on a serious note maybe they dont know left from right? Ive just never failed a test before, its a very weird feeling! Also feel BAD for the driver too, if it was a close one, they must think Im a nob too, and that's not nice for them or me!

....have a think about this......if you're pulling out you must be certain you're not heading into a dangerous situation - the "lifesaver" should take place before you have committed - not afterwards, when it could be too late. Anyway, commiserations - I know you will do better next time. Yeah I know what you mean! I understand the examiners reason for it, I knew as soon as I saw the shady f**ker behind me Id f**ked it, but I guess a small pert of me hoped that maybe the car didnt have to break etc etc so I may get away with it. Im not mad at the examiner or the test itself. Shit happens. In the car I dont trust other people, I shouldnt on the bike either just because i can sometimes escape a bit faster from those situations. If Only Id got to the roundabout 5 seconds later (or earlier when they werent there yet either!) and they'd have been on the roundabout and I would have been tutting at them whilst i wait for a better space etc! As the examiner said, take away the positive that it was otherwise a good ride, no minors, so no bad habits to work on....and I dont have to pay another £425 this time, just a refresher session the day before then my re test the next day. The main casualty in this is the 125, I have no desire to go ride on it between now and my next test, In my head I was ready to pass and be collecting a big girl bike this weekend! Did mine 10 years ago (pass first time, 3 minors Id like to add unlike today lol) and sometimes I do think 'if I did that on a test Id be failed' not necessarily being dangerous, but stuff like how you steer, how you reverse into places, how often you check over your shoulder. To be honest since getting into biking i think my driving has improved, I *try* to be a LOT m ore alert to whats happening around me.

Depends. Were you the examiner? I wish! Lol Im not salty about it. One of those things - next time Ill make sure I read minds not indicators!

My nob of the day has to be the driver that indicated to go left of the roundabout but actually decided to go right ruining an otherwise good test! Im allowed to call them a nob right?

This is what happened - their indicator was on but had stopped at the roundabout before I decided to go, Im guessing as I pulled off they also pulled off though. The second between me pulling out and my lifesaver is what i dont know, but the examiner does! Im not saying he is wrong by the way, its just the way it is and it sucks that other people on the road have forgotten their training! Agree, id rather have a driving fault for hesitating and pass than a fat fail for taking a risky gap.

But i have rebooked though it's quite a wait now Fingers crossed its just a bit miserable and cloudy like today by then!

Yeah both the examiner and my instructor said it sucks when something happens you cant control. It didnt help the examiner being further back could see the change in direction which i guess makes it a pretty good fail for him! What I dont know is if the driver had to break to allow for me to go, as I say they hadnt moved when I decided to go, and maybe changed their mind about where they wanted to go once on the roundabout so may have been crawling at that point. Gutted I did two very beautiful hill starts for nothing hahah

Soooo I was avoiding this forum for a while to focus on just riding the bike and doing my mOD 2. It was today. EVERYTHING was going fine. Halfway through the ride, I was waiting at a roundabout for a gap, and to my right another car was indicating left to go the way Id just come from. They didnt move, so off I went (i was going straight on). Only the stupid £$^&* basicslly had the wrong indicator on, and proceeded to go all the way round the roundabout with that indicator on I noticed this as i went to do a lifesaver and wondered why the f**k that car was behind me and not the examiner. I figured i failed at that point. Proceeded to continue the test. Got back, yep I failed, and what makes it worse he said it was otherwise a great ride and I had NO minors! He was nice, and did try and encourage me to book back in for a re test asap as I can clearly control the bike and know what to do. I've cried it out (frustrated tears mainly) and im just angry now that someone else's stupidness that I cant really control ruined a good test! I wish Id got some minors so i could feel like i have stuff to work on, but it's nothing! Maybe Ill get better at reading driver's minds next time!

It will be next week all going well on my MOD 2. Of course people can come take a look at it from the end of this week, as come friday i wont do any more 125 rides! However South Shields is quite a trek from Lincoln..... But Im looking to sell my Honda CBR 2015 8.3k miles soon! Wonderful starter bike IMO as Im a massive wuss.

Same path I took, now you have decent 125 experience you will be fine on a 650 it does come a lot easier than the 125!

This might help you [mention]Joebaxi[/mention] ?

On of my first rides on my bike was when he had a random storm one evening and I was at work so not like I could just change my mind, I was papping it but it was ok. Just took my time a bit more, avoided paint or covers in the road as much as possible, and eased on and off the brake/throttle....it was fine! Other than getting wet through and the rain pretty much gone when I got home!

Ooooh I saw one of these at the weekend! It was being ridden by someone being a right moron at some lights/filtering, but there was no mistaking that headlight (and green)! I did wonder what it was!

Selling my old commuter pedal bike so i have more funds for my motorised one Titanium colour with orangey-pink highlights. Bought Spring last year, used a few times last summer and spent the rest of the time in the shed so great condition. Great hybrid bike so decent for commuting all over. Frame size small, best suits a lady up to 5'7 with up to 31" inside leg. Will throw in the chain for free. Based in Lincoln, Lincolnshire. £200 Details on here: http://www.giant-camden.co.uk/gb/alight-3-2017 Will upload the pics in the morning in better light!

I agree, my cbr seems to have had a tough history but still going strong!

Some carts, mainly in urban areas, can be set up with poop collectors haha

Downside of living in the country I suppose, I don't think you'd have been able to pick this up, looks like the horse had a dose of the Brad Pitts .... I suppose I should feel sorry for him Lol depends on the diet. Tend to find the pretty looking, eventing types have the worst crap going.

Hello ex horsey person here! As someone who worked in various yards, if I wasnt riding or part of a ride that went out, I would probably be the one following behind with a poop scooping buncket taking it off the road. If our hands were full of horse etc then we'd finish that job and then head back out along the roads to pick up the mess. Its just road manners really. Sadly not all have it. It may be difficult though if you are lone riders without someone on the ground and riding a long way and back to go and collect poop... thats the only exception I can think of?

This look the business and might be ideal for the space....

If I could wheel it into the back garden problem solved as we have a proper shed (like proper walls and lighting etc) however to get to the back from the front you have to go through the main house or via the utility room, which I can do at the moment with the lightweight 125 but anything more is going to be too hard!

I did! Well, Ive paid a deposit so its waiting MOD 2 completion. No-one else can take it now. But taking note of people saying it may rust easily, I want to give it a proper home - we are looking to move haouse in the next year and we will be looking for a garaged property but the current pad doesnt.