[SIII]

I have to disagree with one point - I don't think the swerve test easy and felt downright unsafe, well it was on the school's old ER5's. This part of the test I would say is pointless, when will you ever have to swerve to the left! (the right hand loop at carlisle was unusable as previous candidate had come off and put a big gouge in the tarmac!) When a car pulls out on me I definitely won't swerve onto the pavement and I am not sure swerving onto the opposite side of the road would be any safer?

I agree with the rest of the test being off of the public road and is probably better for it. But the 110 mile round trip (and the months wait), I had to make was a bit of a pain and if I was honest if I was given the choice, I would probably take the test on road and not have to take nearly a whole day off work just for a 15 minute test!

No complaint with the MOD2 - good level of testing as is required before letting us loose on a 600 or bigger. Slow riding is assesed as part of this and doing a u-turn and emergency stop would not be that great an inconvience.

By the way passed 1 month ago with only 2 minors - not going fast enough! But then again the speedo on said knackered ER5 was showing 60 when I was only doing 53!