Well, this seems to be the place to share stories of our motorbike woes! I am having a few problems, to say the least. I'm 49 and passed my cbt back in October and been doing alight, been quite happy with my progress and even the wife is happy with how I'm doing (biker). I've had practice on her CBF and I'm feeling good about this. So it's time to book in my MOD 1 course, I think I'm ready. I start my first day and it's going okayish, I am having trouble with slow control but I think I can overcome it. But I drop the bike on the u-turn, not to worry, crack on, but confidence is a little shaken. We go down to the test centre to have a play for a couple of hours and, again, slow control is an issue but instructor is fairly happy we can iron it out. We then travel back up to our training area about 30 mins away. We're 50 metres from the training area and I come to a roundabout, no bother, I go to stop as there is traffic and somehow lose my balance and I'm under the bike. Had to helped up, bike is damaged and I had to push it back. Instructor correctly informs me that he's not prepared to continue with me and that I'm binned off the MOD 1 course and my test will be cancelled as he has concerns about my ability to ride safely (which I agree with). I am a gutted, and mortified that I dropped the bike (twice!). The training school wants to continue with me and I'm scheduled in a weeks time to have a half day course to concentrate on my slow control, and I'm booked in again for my MOD 1 in a months time (Dear God, the cost!) The wife (God bless her patience) and I go out at the weekend so I can get some more time on her CBF aannnnd guess what? Yep, again. Luckily she doesn't really care about the bike as her main ride is a Street Triple but, Flipping Heck bikes are spending more time on the floor than upright with me! My confidence is shot and my slow control is terrible. How the heck do I pull this back?? Advice and ridicule gratefully received! Wakey638