Words of wisdom.

I dropped the riding school's GS500 bike once: the engine stalled
and I was so surprised that I lost balance. However, the bike
dropped on my fat leg so no damage to the bike.

Would never go on DAS with my own bike. Even if you don't drop it, the
endless practice of clutch control is surely not good for the bike.

my wife bought hers before her test..but i had to insure it..doubt a leaner could get insurance for a sv650 :D

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The CB500s & ER5s the schools use are alot more 'learner friendly' for the test definately.

If you get itchy and can't wait a whole month some schools do individual days when you can go out for an hour or so. Not all though.

Good luck mate, don't risk taking a jaunt out before, sod's law the rozzers will just happen by and that'l be the end of that :wink:

Glad it's not just me; I dropped the school's bike during my DAS putting it on the centre stand the day before my test :oops:

It spent a little while on the floor as both myself and the instructor were laughing too hard to pick it up, very glad it was someone elses bike!

cheers

Jamie

The 500cc parallels are just plain easier to ride, no point in making it harder for yourself... Even leaving aside the risk of binning it.

Plus, using your own bike is a logistical nightmare if it goes wrong. Get it delivered to the school, do the riding about, fail, and it either has to sit there till you can resit, or you need to get it moved back to the shop or to your home. Then, you need to move it back to the school if you want to use it next time. I had an absolute mare doing CBT on my own bike for exactly that reason.

Piece of **** doing a U turn (although I didn't think so at the time)

Oddly enough, ten minutes in a local trading estate last night taught me that the SV's actually a hell of a lot easier to U turn than I'd thought, although the turning circle's not brilliant :shock:

A mate manaed to fail his second test before leaving the car park. He botched taking it off the centre stand and managed to drop it, coming within inches of hitting the instructor and also just missed hitting his bike by a tiny amount.

Before picking it up, he said, "Have I failed?". "Yep" was the reply. Even before he picked it up and saw the indicator was smashed so even had the instructor been feeling generous and pretended he'd not seen it, he'd not have been able to do the test anyway.

He gave up trying to get a road licence after that and stuck to dirt biking. :)

Lesson to be learnt : If you've got a bike with a centre stand and a side stand, only ever use the side stand when you park up, if you're being assessed in any way:!: