View Full Version : The evil new test!!!
Thingus
14-01-09, 06:38 PM
EEK! I should've had my test on the 4th of December, but due to the wind being the wrong direction that day it was cancelled, and now, because of what i personally think is a load of stupid teenagers taking bike tests because they're scared of the new test in March, i've gotta wait again!
I've been told late January but i was told early Jan last month! The company i'm using has had at least one cancellation this week.
Having said all this i've heard it's a fuss over nothing, it's all stuff you've done before and it's not a lot harder.
(although i'd be ****ed off having my bike (due within a week or so) and not being able to ride it)
Should i worry! Or should i not?! Anybody know the ins and outs of the new test? Apart from that it's a huge fk up at the DSA.
:smt040
DarrenSV650S
14-01-09, 06:39 PM
Try phoning around some other training place as they sometimes block book bike tests.
Thingus
14-01-09, 06:45 PM
My guys have block booked but because of the cancellations they're having to re-schedule single tests and it's apparently a pain in the ass.
ps i've already paid them
Can't you call the DSA and ask. Or take your test in Shrewsbury? It was quite easy once they moved the test centre to Battlefield - I did all the manoovers on industrial estate roads, and cos it's new, all the units have parking lots, and so no parked cars to cope with in the yewwie. Then we went up the A53 and turned right at Astley onto country lanes, came out on the Newport road, and then into a housing estate in Harlescott for a bit of urban stuff, and back to the test centre.
Shouldn't they be able to give you a date?
Thingus
14-01-09, 08:03 PM
I don't think they can choose which one they use because they get both. They block book aswell and because i have lessons to take, they can't give me a date as easily as others, so i'm not top of the table at the moment :( I've ridden to Shrews anyway around the ind. est. and it looks good :p would be nice to get it there.
I think you need to do some serious yelling.
Thingus
14-01-09, 11:33 PM
She left a voicemail today sayin' she hadn't forgotten about me ;) aww, and explained all that cancellation stuff and that i'd get a test booked hopefully this month, but it's a bit pants. I'm not one for yelling a lot really... can't really kick the poor woman's head in either can i...!
joshmac
15-01-09, 12:42 AM
can't really kick the poor woman's head in either can i...!
Just wear what you're wearing in your avitar and you'll be fine ;):twisted:
JOKING LADIES!!!
Thingus
15-01-09, 07:59 AM
:batman: :twisted:
Should i worry! Or should i not?! Anybody know the ins and outs of the new test? Apart from that it's a huge fk up at the DSA.
:smt040
http://www.dsa.gov.uk/Category.asp?cat=551
and
http://www.dsa.gov.uk/Documents/MPTC/2008/MMA%20Dimensions_VERSION%20TO%20USE.pdf
Dappa D
15-01-09, 09:56 AM
eh? dont think you will be doing the new test mate....it was pusponed last i heard..unless they sneeked it it under the radar!
edit...just seen the link..soz...so no new test for you!..old style it is! good luck
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