First new test candidate crashes
 

dont know if its already been posted

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/Ne...hes/?id=107939

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Going very well so far...

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Easily done, if it's wet on a car park (slippy?) on a little 125 on their skinny little crap tyres (ice??) then what chance do you have? :x

I hate the EU and I hate this government.

Translation :

We don't give a crap about him. We suggest people spend more money and more time 'learning' to take a corner much (more sharply then they would if they were riding normally) too fast for the conditions on a test made harder for the sole purpose of reducing the number of motorcyclists on the road.

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Thats shocking, glad i did it last april. :S

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I've heard that someone else highsided as well, it's not going down well at all apparently.

It is ridiculous we have to conform to the EU rule shafting 80% of our test centres.

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Ridiculous.

Seems common sense is certainly not a feature included in new testing standards.

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It is supposed to be fairly easy though, I have been to watch people doing it at the local centre near me in netherfield all I saw doing it seem to breeze it.

Apparently the causes of ALL of the crashes so far have been candidates breaking.....which you just cant do when carrying out a avoidance swerve like that......and statistics show that panicing and breaking is one of the biggest causes of accidents in new riders.

and I would agree, if they cant do it on their test then on the road they will become another one of these statistics.

Better training required.

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I agree .... that is excatly what I did when I had my off. OK I didnt swerve but after 9 months of riding I thought I was the bees knees, gravel took me away and I panicked and breaked and off I went.

I would have rather come off on the test and learnt a valuable lesson.

I do disagree with the speed, surely it could be reduced according to road conditions as you certainly would ride according to conditions.

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Repost... see here

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=130704

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Ouch!
It's stupid that you have to ride exactly the same, wet or dry. Not a good thing to teach new riders IMHO :rolleyes: