I got pulled by an unmarked car today...

[dizzyblonde]

for not having L plates on my SV:rolleyes:

I had a hi viz 'trainee' vest on, as I went to observe a CBT. Had a pretty interesting day, shame about the really rubbish weather.

We went out on the road part, and were on the way back to the school, when we heard a siren, I looked and saw an ambulance coming in the opposite direction, then looked in my mirror to see an unmarked car flashing, so we pulled in a bit to let him pass, and he was after me!!!:smt103

He asked me why I had a trainee vest on, so I explained that we thought it better for us all to be noticed as a group, and now the poor bloke who is showing me the ropes is now having kittens in my earhole. He laughed and let me on my way.
Good job he didn't look the bike over, as there was no baffle, and my out of date tax disc is stuck solid in the holder, so the new one is still in my tank bag:mad:

Ahh well, I might just have to go and watch another CBT, and another and another, before I decide when I want to train to be an instructor:smt039

[davepreston]

Good job he didn't look the bike over, as there was no baffle, and my out of date tax disc is stuck solid in the holder, so the new one is still in my tank bag:mad:
you criminal
actually a mate of mine says that "silly" or minnor pulls have always got him the best collars, inc one sizeable arms find

[dizzyblonde]

I'm a bad girl ain't I?

I've never been pulled before, and I was kackin me pants. I could hear the instructor fella talking the the guy doing his CBT, wondering what the hell was going on, and then heard him saying it must be the vest.

[Bluepete]

Do you know, this reminds m of an old joke!

Two prostitutes chatting;

One says

"Have you ever been picked up by the fuzz?"

The other replies

"No, but I've been swung around by my boobs!"

Pete - official member of the sneeky b@stard brigade! ;)

[dizzyblonde]

Do you know, this reminds m of an old joke!

Two prostitutes chatting;

One says

"Have you ever been picked up by the fuzz?"

The other replies

"No, but I've been swung around by my boobs!"

Pete - official member of the sneeky b@stard brigade! ;)
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[missyburd]

Can you even have L plates on an SV? With it being a 650?

Who did you have showing you the ropes then?

[metalangel]

Can you even have L plates on an SV? With it being a 650?

Who did you have showing you the ropes then?

Sure. I rode an ER-5 with L plates... while doing my DAS. If the school was flush/crazy/nice enough to have SVs as their school bikes you'd have L plates on them.

[missyburd]

Ah ok. For some reason I had it fixed in my head that 125s and 500-600s were used in training schools but I guess not!

[orose]

DAS rules seem to state that anything with a power output over 35kW (46.6bhp rings a bell) is legal for DAS, but the power to weight figure seems to be AWOL - if it has been removed, then its probably OK to do the training and take the test on a busa...

[dizzyblonde]

Can you even have L plates on an SV? With it being a 650?

Who did you have showing you the ropes then?

Twas Kev, nice fella, quite old school(which I like) certainly someone who I could do a CBT with......although he'd have failed me on a U turn, the SV couldn't do it! We decided faired SVs aren't suitable for the job. However there was another school up at the Galpharm that were using Gladius's for the Mod 1, very capable indeed....might be something to do with their nakidness......Mod 1, is eeeeerrrrr an interesting task.

DAS rules seem to state that anything with a power output over 35kW (46.6bhp rings a bell) is legal for DAS, but the power to weight figure seems to be AWOL - if it has been removed, then its probably OK to do the training and take the test on a busa...

Something like that, 46.6bhp or a GS500;)

[maviczap]

Something like that, 46.6bhp or a GS500;)

The chap I observed with has GS500's in his training fleet

I do need something other than my SV to do CBT's on

Reminds me, I must send off the paperwork :rolleyes:

[dizzyblonde]

The chap I observed with has GS500's in his training fleet

I do need something other than my SV to do CBT's on

Reminds me, I must send off the paperwork :rolleyes:

I used them for my DAS, they're perfect TBH. You could always use the schools GS's? Kev doesn't use his bike for training pupils.
Are you going down the Cardington route or are you just doing the down training for now?
We chatted about Cardington this morning, and the horror stories are still the same as from when an old friend used to train people. Kev said one bloke rode all the way doen there, and spent four time round the roundabout outside, to try and talk himself in there, people really are put through the mincer, and many many folk fail....much much harder than a simple DAS. I have visions of barbed wire and the gestapo in my head of that place already!

[maviczap]

Pass Dizzy, once I send my application off, then I'll sort the next step:rolleyes:

[dizzyblonde]

I'm going to go on a few more days obs, not going to make any hasty decisions, even though it appears I'm a good candidate, mad as a box of frogs being top of the list:rolleyes:

[BernardBikerchick]

unbeliveable !!!! utter hunts !! c !!

[missyburd]

Twas Kev, nice fella, quite old school(which I like) certainly someone who I could do a CBT with
Ah yeah, had him when I passed mine, lovely chap.

[timwilky]

Probably rules have changed but in the 70's I knew of a guy (Friend of a friend, so a casual acquaintance) who needed to get a licence as his south african one was only valid for 1 year, (might have been Rhodesian or Namibian etc. he was from that neck of the woods).

So he turns up for his test at Preston on his CB750, no L Plates etc. Of course he is legally entitled to ride it for the next 6 months or so until his year in the UK is up, the examiner had to go off asking chief examiner etc about the legality.

[Quedos]

See i've nothing but pleasentries for cardington - been down a few times with my dad.
I was going down the same route as you DB but having looked into it up here it ain't worth the expense and the hassle to go with it Yet female instructors are whats needed.

[Jayneflakes]

My Carol is a Cardington Assessed instructor and has also gained another Qualification that enables her to train DAS Instructors. I asked her why she gave up Instructing and sadly she said that it was due to money. She makes more through working four days a week as a meter reader than she did working seven days a week as Chief Instructor at the bike school.

Learning to ride with her was interesting, especially when she booked me two days with the local Instructor here, to go through new stuff for the Part one test. She had actually trained him to ride when he had been a spotty teenager! I got into trouble with him though when he questioned something I did and when I answered that Carol had taught me, he stated that what she had shown me was advanced skills and not part of the test!

From my point of view, be careful with becoming an instructor in your hobby. I became a Climbing Instructor in 1999 and with in four years hated climbing because I never climbed for me any more, it was always about teaching, logging routes or just working on a crag in all weathers. Even now I barely consider myself a climber any more and I am taking a group out on Monday to the local climbing wall, I doubt I will even get a foot off of the ground! ;-)

[yorkie_chris]

DAS rules seem to state that anything with a power output over 35kW (46.6bhp rings a bell) is legal for DAS, but the power to weight figure seems to be AWOL - if it has been removed, then its probably OK to do the training and take the test on a busa...

AFAIK there never was a P/W ratio limit for DAS

P/W limit is simple some retarded part of the retarded and pointless 33bhp limit to criminalise people who are riding 125cc bikes on a 33bhp license... :rolleyes:

[BigBaddad]

Darn... I thought this was a dogging thread?