SometimesSansEngine

Here's Taunton. I agree with [mention]Slowlycatchymonkey[/mention]. All these locations have similar pass rates that's higher than the national average so I wouldn't over think it. Instead go with the bike school that you have the best feeling about and head to their usual test centre. See below. All three there are significantly higher than the ones that are a 50/50 if you pass or not.

I think they're taking quite a blunt approach to all of this. I can only assume right now that they're changing the format of the service books to remove the pages that they usually write the details of the original keeper. However for the older books they can easily cut these pages out and hand it over to you. Rather than continuing to email the general customer services team instead try [email protected] to ask them to justify the policy further. That will be the team that actually came up with the policy and may be able to help further. I don't think there is a strong argument under legitimate reasons (boring GDPR term) for knowing previous owners, especially those who originally purchased the bike. You could argue that you may need to clarify certain parts of the service history but I'd then argue that you are instead better placed contacting directly the dealer that did the service if you had questions. But if they removed the pages that contained personal information you'd be fine. As I type all this out I am thinking that an online lookup for service history would be much better anyway. Maybe that's what everyone will move towards eventually. Especially if it actually listed the exact work done during the service.

I don't have them (the Berlingo requires you to run around the car and light the paraffin lamps on the exterior of the vehicle) but the tip I've seen is to always turn your lights to off when you park up. You then make the conscious decision when you get in to set them to 'auto' or to 'on', which then means you're more likely on your journey to do the right thing based on the condition. I think lots of people just enter zombie mode where they just think their car is always taking care of the lights.

Every single driver this morning who doesn't realise: If they have day time running lights it doesn't illuminate the rear lights of their vehicle If they have automatic lights and they are set to 'auto' then in foggy conditions the lights are actually unlikely to turn on at all Driving a white or grey car does not automatically confer you with mythical status in fog, just because you blend in with your lights off like you're a cloaked Klingon destroyer it doesn't actually make your car invincible, and you are not a Klingon Warrior TURN YOUR LIGHTS ON IN FOG. I thank you. Qapla!

Here you go [mention]Paulpen[/mention] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/motorcycle-riding-test-data-by-test-centre The stats shows a higher pass rate at Bristol, but as [mention]Slowlycatchymonkey[/mention] says there's not much in it at all. Both are higher than the national average.

I'd also agree with more days training. I can't help but feel that those that do fewer days as standard hope it looks good to people shopping around ("oh, I could be done in half the time") and then just hover up the (potentially inevitable) retakes. For some this will be on the only tuition they ever get if they never take further post-test training so it can't do any harm!

Ha, I just recommended Bristol by PM But I will fully admit I only have experience of that centre. Just found all the examiners reasonable and the roads easy enough to do a test on.

If it's going to take you an hour to get to them I'll drop you a private message with the school I used up my way, your choice whether it's of interest or not

Ah crap, nearly forgot this one. The guy on a green motorbike with a carrier bag swinging from his right wrist I had some spare rok straps in my bag and was nearly tempted to catch up with him and offer to lend him them on trust that he'd give them back. But I didn't want to get too close as I didn't want to be the one to run him over (and then probably come off myself too)

They use the road amongst us..... https://www.spirefm.co.uk/news/local-news/2805633/look-car-wedged-in-castle-road-roundabout-underpass/

[mention]Six30[/mention] https://www.themotorbikeforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=1074087#p1074087

I fear this thread will never be as popular as Nob of the Day......., but still... Legend of the day was the lady who sat stationary before the apex of a fast left hand bend, which gave me fair warning in advance that a long traffic queue lurked unseen around the bend about two further car lengths along. Great driving and road awareness, with the added benefit that she also avoided having any quick moving traffic slam into her. She got a friendly wave of thanks as I filtered past

I'd hope most would be sensible but I'm sure you'll always meet he jobsworth even if you're safe. A few stretches on my cycle commute I do 16-20mph next to solid white lines when the speed limit is anywhere between 40 and NSL, do I expect cars to hang behind me as per the law? Of course not. But technically they could all get pulled over. Similarly if you're clearly doing it safely and with nothing oncoming you'd HOPE they would be rational about it.... Needless to say though I usually do a good check in my mirror and ahead before I do so.

No, they're a good type of knob

Personally I'd happily filter there WITH THE CAVEAT I'd be going VERY slowly because at any point someone is liable to move out of the queue to head into the turn box If the turn box is actually for oncoming drivers I'd avoid it

I usually don't filter all the way to the front, I'll hang back a few vehicles back. If it's at lights there's usually road furniture/kerb that will get in my way anyway. If it's a junction/roundabout I figure the vehicles at the front will be assessing the road and less aware of my presence so not a place I want to be. I find I get the most grief when getting back in with traffic to turn left, even though I don't barge in and don't do it in front of a moving vehicle some drivers still seem to take more umbrage to you crossing in front of them vs if you were then turning right. I filter up the inside as an absolute last resort (eg on my commute there's one section you can only do it on the left as there's a kerb and verge in the middle of the road, I do it at walking pace there) I try to avoid any oncoming vehicles having to do anything differently because I'm filtering, I don't bully my way through (although some do take their own action even though I could drive a bus through the gap I'm going through) Filtering on zig zags is decidedly dodgy (don't overtake the vehicle closest to the crossing etc etc) Filtering over a solid white line a no if any part of your bike crosses it, although when stationery and with a clear view of the road ahead I may interpret the stationary cars as parked...... (I await the arguing over this to commence) Any other scenarios?

I'd also agree that half days probably isn't a bad thing. I was knackered after my CBT and all day training days. Not sure whether "MMA SESSION" refers to Mixed Martial Arts, I can only assume that it doesn't because I can't see how it's relevant unless you're one for indulging in road rage.

I read it as a DAS type course but they're doing two days on CBT type stuff/125s Is it two full days [mention]gsijay[/mention]?

I come in from the south but don't believe the north is much better. Or the east. Or the west. Bath is a small city in a bowl that has zero ability to cope with the amount of people that want to drive in, but the same people will resist any attempt to reduce traffic. I couldn't be a politician here because I'd just lose my rag at people. Loads of my colleagues drive in past the three P&Rs, sit for ages in traffic, pay through the nose for parking and still moan that it's other cars that's the problem. Ho hum. I've cycled up to Lansdown more than once. It's fun

It's better to be a cautious filterer than a pugnacious one. You'll miss the odd opportunity for sure but you'll lose more time if you have to pick yourself up off the floor

I have to admit my wife's car is a Lexus and the one before was a BMW and the one before that a Volvo. So far as I know she is a good person and definitely has no horns, tail or cloven hooves. Her only pet hate vehicle wise is Nissan Micras and she does get grumpy with cyclists who slow her down. She rarely drives in Bath. Oh I wouldn't slow her down. I passed 2 miles of stationary traffic to get to work today. That was a good day for the car drivers, usually it's just over four miles Reminds me of this [mention]S-Westerly[/mention] "> "I know, she's 'sposed to come through at ten after four"

I have to admit my wife's car is a Lexus and the one before was a BMW and the one before that a Volvo. So far as I know she is a good person and definitely has no horns, tail or cloven hooves. Her only pet hate vehicle wise is Nissan Micras and she does get grumpy with cyclists who slow her down. She rarely drives in Bath. Oh I wouldn't slow her down. I passed 2 miles of stationary traffic to get to work today. That was a good day for the car drivers, usually it's just over four miles

The number of times in my helmet I'm reminding myself of the following phrase... "Look at the solution, don't look at the problem"

Good news that speed trials don't have corners

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