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Terah
15-03-11, 04:25 PM
Got my Mod 2 test date. Weeks of eager anticipation and impatience instantly replaced by a kind of dull, pervasive fear.

Reeder
15-03-11, 04:26 PM
When is it?

Terah
15-03-11, 04:26 PM
Friday.

Reeder
15-03-11, 04:27 PM
Good luck mate! Cancel your indicators and remember your life savers!

Amplimator
15-03-11, 04:48 PM
And find something that has a claming effect that will help you relax (and i dont mean smoke some green). I was a right state and wobbly until i started to sing to myself. Thank god im already deaf. :rolleyes:

davepreston
15-03-11, 04:53 PM
well you can ride a bike, you proved that in mod 1, just do it again this time keeping a extra eye out for muppet cage drivers, you'll be fine

missyburd
15-03-11, 04:59 PM
i's booked mine too, cacking myself and it's ages away, hate tests so know exactly how you're feeling. All the best mate, just try and enjoy the ride if owt :)

davepreston
15-03-11, 05:08 PM
but myc your in the perfect position to do your test, you done mega miles on the back of yc's machine
ride the complete opposite and you'll have a perfect no faults pass

minimorecambe
15-03-11, 05:13 PM
Good luck.
Hope the weather is kind to you :)

carelesschucca
15-03-11, 05:23 PM
Remember you can ride you know it. and your doing this so you can enjoy being on the road. so breath take it easy and you'll be fine...

Oh, once you've got your licence have a go at the IAM people give it a hard time but its a good thing and will bring you on leaps and bounds...

the skill I've learnt through it saved me plenty of times...

Fingers crossed for ya...

Terah
15-03-11, 10:02 PM
Thanks all - comments really appreciated!

C-Pk
16-03-11, 12:30 AM
Good luck. I remember doing mine last year. Was really nervous but if you calm and settle yourself its just a fun 30 to 40 minute ride around town which you can enjoy and pass in no time at all.

Hope it goes well for ya. Let us know.

Ed
17-03-11, 10:07 PM
Hey Terah, ATB for tomoz:D

As the Reeder man says, remember to cancel the indies and to do the lifesavers:D

Terah
17-03-11, 11:03 PM
Cheers mate! Relatively calm, and about to get an early night.

Training in the morning and test in afternoon - will post when I get back in.

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minimorecambe
17-03-11, 11:10 PM
Good luck :)

Bluefish
18-03-11, 12:32 AM
enjoy, you will be riding when i will be working, know which i'd rather be doing, take your time and watch yer speed. mirror signal mirror manouver, and if in doubt check yer mirrors lol, may the force be with you. :D

ccookie
18-03-11, 05:36 AM
Good luck!

Watch out for the slip roads...........Car drives love staying in the left hand lane as your joining. :smt011

daveangel
18-03-11, 12:27 PM
Best of luck to yer. .:)

Terah
18-03-11, 04:52 PM
Failed. Was at an odd junction with 4 roads meeting, two either side of a bridge. Spent too long making unnecessary observations on the joining roads that I failed to spot the gravel in the middle of my exit road, which I promptly lost the front end on. Managed to keep it right way up, but got a 'serious' for awareness.

Gutted, but think I'll be OK next time.

Reeder
18-03-11, 04:57 PM
Sorry to hear it buddy. Good luck second time around.

minimorecambe
18-03-11, 05:17 PM
That sucks. :(

Don't be disheartened though, I failed on my first test aswell.
You will be much calmer and will nail it next time :)

Chin up :)

missyburd
18-03-11, 07:01 PM
Sounds an unlucky fail that, not to worry though, it'll annoy ya now but you'll sail through next time :)

Bibio
18-03-11, 08:33 PM
thats pants m8. better luck next time.

if it were me i would have gave you plus points for keeping the bike upright.

so if an examiner tells you to go a certain route and that route is dangerous (because of a hazard). how does that work, can you get off the bike and have a chat about it or what?

minimorecambe
18-03-11, 08:35 PM
The examiner cant do anything if you take a different route to what they tell you to if you do everything correctly and safetly :)

Bibio
18-03-11, 08:43 PM
they can if you have already committed to that route.

minimorecambe
18-03-11, 08:45 PM
I meant if you arent. I see what you are saying nw though, if you are in a lane and there is a danger, where do you stand if you have to change direction to avoid it?

Terah
18-03-11, 09:19 PM
Am pretty sure that so long as you realise there is a danger and take appropriate action, then you're fine - whether that is riding around the problem, changing direction, or pulling over safely to check with the examiner. If something totally unexpected happens then it may be unlucky, but you are still expected to cope with it.

My actual fail wasn't a control issue, it was for awareness - I should have spotted the gravel, and if I had done so in time I'd have either avoided it or gone through it with the bike more upright.

Ed
18-03-11, 09:33 PM
Bad luck, sure you'll nail it next time. Have you rebooked???

Terah
18-03-11, 09:51 PM
Am back to waiting for a date. Training school is trying to get some more, or might get if someone cancels.

Terah
08-04-11, 03:14 PM
****!

Did Mod 2 again today. Beautiful day for it. Felt really comfortable with everything, was aware I had made a couple of mistakes but was pretty sure they were minor.

Two mins from the end of the test I'm coming up to a set of lights which change green to amber, and the total muppet idiot voice in my head goes, 'Whatever you do, don't run a red light.'. So I brake, stop just over into the cyclist bit, then hear the car behind me lock up.

Stuuk1
08-04-11, 03:26 PM
So did you fail.... Why? Sure it was the car behind you that is at fault, no?

Electro
08-04-11, 03:39 PM
So did you fail.... Why? Sure it was the car behind you that is at fault, no?

Not for sticking his wheel into the cycle box.

Terah
08-04-11, 03:41 PM
Yep, fail. Was considered dangerous as a) I was pretty close to the lights and should have just gone through, and b) car was right up my ass. Car was at fault too (and probably would have been blamed for any accident), but still bad on my part.

And quite rightly, it really was quite stupid as I had to brake pretty hard to stop. No way I'd have done it in the car and equally wouldn't have done it on the bike if it hadn't been a test.

Electro
08-04-11, 03:48 PM
You will always have the question of what you can and can`t do in a test. I went thru a light changing to red on my test after riding for just 2 minutes. I just ignored it as the examiners seem to have their own opinion of whats right or wrong. I had to pull up as she didnt get thru the lights with me. A stop where you are hard on the brakes isnt a fail tho and how can it be deemed dangerous, was the car going to run the lights after you if you had chosen to go thru on amber?? Unlucky mate, i bet u nail it next time.

Reeder
08-04-11, 03:57 PM
Sorry to hear that.

Terah
08-04-11, 04:11 PM
A stop where you are hard on the brakes isnt a fail tho and how can it be deemed dangerous, was the car going to run the lights after you if you had chosen to go thru on amber?? Unlucky mate, i bet u nail it next time.

Yeah I had a good chat with the examiner afterwards and although he didn't explicitly say, I got the impression it would have just been a minor if the car hadn't been there. The car (a bmw) was almost certainly going to try and follow me through.

On the flip side though, I've actually had a pretty great day. First thing was a trip to the health centre for a 12 week scan for the wife - child #2 is confirmed as well on the way! Secondly it really was a nice day for riding and I exchanged nods with a fair few riders. Thirdly instead of going back to work I've spent the rest of the afternoon with my feet up in front of the TV with a tub of ice cream.

C-Pk
08-04-11, 05:16 PM
I would say the reason you failed is for not reading the road. If a light has been green for a while you need to be anticipating the change and slowing a bit just in case. He seems to have decided that you didnt read the road properly.

But fair play you have taken it on the chin and are ready to go again. Good luck next time.

Bibio
08-04-11, 05:18 PM
that's bad luck m8.

but i my opinion you done the right thing. its not your fault if the beemer was to close.

he was sort of right in his decision....

Junctions controlled by traffic lights

175

You MUST stop behind the white ‘Stop’ line across your side of the road unless the light is green. If the amber light appears you may go on only if you have already crossed the stop line or are so close to it that to stop might cause a collision.

the rule is a bit vague in the fact of the term collision. collision from where? it is not stated.

but:
126

Stopping Distances

Drive at a speed that will allow you to stop well within the distance you can see to be clear. You should
leave enough space between you and the vehicle in front so that you can pull up safely if it suddenly slows down or stops. The safe rule is never to get closer than the overall stopping distance.

not your fault m8 and its just bad luck like the last time.

graet news about the scan though.

skiver.... lol

missyburd
08-04-11, 10:58 PM
Fecking BMW's! :rolleyes:

Bad luck fella, third time lucky eh? :)

lammypie
09-04-11, 03:20 AM
Seems not all the c*cks immigrated to audis. Takes a special kind of inconsideration to tail gate a learner

Terah
04-05-11, 08:41 AM
Woohoo!

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Quedos
04-05-11, 08:52 AM
Is that a pass then???

Reeder
04-05-11, 08:58 AM
Oooooooo, tell us more.

Terah
04-05-11, 09:06 AM
Indeedy, and a lovely day for it. Got a couple of minors - for some reason I decided that dropping into neutral at roundabouts would be fun - but other than that a really good ride.

Chuffed to bits as I think I'd have cried if I didn't get this one.

Ironically the road tax ran out end April so I had to SORN it, so off to sort that out now. And I have a minor brake issue. But other than that I'm good to go - planning to do both the GM and AR so really looking forward to meeting folk.

fenjer
04-05-11, 09:09 AM
congrats!

:)

Reeder
04-05-11, 09:17 AM
See you at the AR then sir!

Quedos
05-05-11, 09:01 AM
Cool see you at the GM

Reeder - why are you not coming to the GM!!

Reeder
05-05-11, 09:04 AM
Erm, it's probably just too far away & I don't know when it is.
Isn't it in scotland? I hate the scottish accent.

Quedos
05-05-11, 09:58 AM
We ain't all got scottish accents you know

Next excuse!

Reeder
05-05-11, 09:59 AM
Too many have so I'll have to sit it out.
I'm probably ill on the date of it too ;)

Quedos
05-05-11, 10:03 AM
Terah - Congrats by the way - just noticied I never said it.

Reeder you are truly a SSDW :-)

Reeder
05-05-11, 10:06 AM
Ssdw?

DDUK1974
05-05-11, 10:09 AM
Well done mate!