Are you supposed to filter on your bike test?

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

I was gonna say, didn't think you liked filtering much at all! Did your instructor put you off in the beginning at all?

IT not that I don't like it, in fact I'm more likely to do it more out on my own. Its the fact I get whinged at in my ears constantly about how I ride....all I hear in my head when I am thinking of filtering with someone like Im Indoors is him taking the pee...kinda makes you more paranoid.

Put it this way, when your other half teaches you how to ride, and they are very patient with you, it turns on its head when you've passed. All you get is criticism and it kinda gets dull after 4 years.

And no, my instructor encouraged filtering...

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by hob

Another guy on my course was out when they hit traffic, the examiner said "We are coming out of test conditions now, we need to filter or we will never get back"

Legend

Did the guy pass?

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

This is very odd, am I the only one that got taught how to filter by their instructor??

It was covered on my DAS course, otherwise you'd be there forever sat in traffic in York. I was even told to make use of the cycle lane if turning left at traffic lights to get past 'one or two cars' - it was emphasised that this was only acceptable with lots of life saver checks. Cannot remember if I needed to filter on my test, but if I did it was obviously allowed.

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Did the guy pass?

Indeed

i failed my car test for filtering

Originally Posted by hovis

i failed my car test for filtering

maybe you would like to expand on that

Originally Posted by sv_rory

maybe you would like to expand on that

i overtook a road sweeper thingy, on a bend

Originally Posted by hovis

i failed my car test for filtering

sorry but that made me laugh just imagining someone in a car then....oh bugger!

i hate car testd failed mine forst time but then they do say that statistics show us who pass second time are apparently better drivers because we have less accidents.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by sv_rory

i hate car testd failed mine forst time but then they do say that statistics show us who pass second time are apparently better drivers because we have less accidents.

Heard that more than once myself...which means I must be a super duper rider...I passed ...cough...4th time..

I can only laugh at imagining failing for filtering in a car