If you can afford it, get the SV and just polish it until you pass your test! Call it motivation.

I would strongly recommend using the school bikes. Apart from the tighter turning circle which you really really need for u-turns, it doesn't matter if you drop the bike and/or damage it. If you dropped your lovely SV you would possibly cry.

*cough* I did quite a lot of damage to the school bike on my DAS :oops: (dented tank, twisted forks and I lost count of the levers I went through) so I was very glad I had left my SV at home.

i got my sv bout a month b4 my test was so fustrating, luckley i live in the country side so i could have a lil burn about had bin riding a 125 for 3 years b4 that tho, so i knew wot i was doing, endend up breaking 3 bikes on my das, the first 1 the instructor put desil in it n it went up in a ball off white smoke, then i got on the back of his bk to the test centre and his speedo broke as i got on and the last sb i tryed jus dident start, there bikes must go though a battering!

What the hell, is that supposed to be english?

Anyway. Yes, dont even think about riding the SV. Break the schools bike instead 8)

its early morning english also quick typing, not trying to get caught on websites wen supposed to be working sorry il try harder next time :oops:

Speaking as someone who managed to avoid damaging the school's bike through the whole of DAS, but then managed to drop it when trying to put it on the side stand back at the riding school after riding home from the test (passed), I'd say use their bikes.

Aside from damaging it and the afformentioned U-turn, I'd far rather learn clutch control on their bike, rather than cook my own.

nope the little 125 i did my test on is :wink:

Do it on the schools bike! But be prepared to pay for damages (clutch lever) or at least an excess if you do drop the bike in a big way. Most schools now have a disclaimer. ANd why not, afterall if someone dropped my bikes I'd want to be recompensed for damages. Unless it's one of the big schools you might not be required to pay (I was lucky enough not to and I broke a clutch lever).

Yep, deffinately an advocat of using the schools bikes, I was lucky I didn't drop the bike doing my DAS, but the other learner did. Instrutor pulls to a stop in the sloped car park (that one behind the pub off chorley new road in Bolton) I pull in behind, and put the stand down, the other lad pulls in next to me (further down slope) and proceeds to put his right foot down onto slope. Him and bike (bandit) went rolling down the hill, I still smile, everytime he tried to stand up he just pitched over again. I wandered into the shop in tears and left them to it.

Ste

Definitely use the school's bikes. On my DAS, first time on an ER5, me and the other trainee were going round the car park getting used to the bike before the road, when SMASH I look round and the other guy was on the floor and the bike smashed against a fence post. Wrote off the bike!

If you still want the shiny K5, most dealers should be able to arrange delivery - when I bought my 125 before doing my DAS the dealer delivered it 60 miles round M25 (& even over Dartford toll crossing) for free.

I bought my '55 SV S in early February, and did my test last Friday. Having the bike in the garage really gave me an incentive to pass. :D

I also managed to drop the DAS bike - the day before my test whilst doing a U turn. Typically, I did it in a residential street in front of a bunch of builders who cheered as I went over! :oops:

Since Friday, I have also managed to drop the SV twice. Thank goodness for crash bungs... No damage aside 1 indy and a scratched bar end. Each time I've felt it going over and laid it down very gently... Still gutting when you do it. It's taught me one thing - now I don't have to manoeuvre with my feet up, I won't. Nor will I ever do another U turn. :lol: