A DONKEY........... Took 4th module 1 this morning at the crack of dawn....plain bloody sailing was brill, did well and got a couple of minors but I STILL FAILED!!! Yes believe it or not the examiner failed me before I even got into the test area because as I pulled out of the parking bay I forgot my side stand when I realised and he calmed me down said dont worry just take your time blah blah went through the whole test and felt fab.........cant believe he failed me for that before even getting through the gates. .........feel like a complete donkey! More annoyed that he actually didnt even say oh im sorry you have failed but your welcome to carry on......arghhhhhhhh. Also lost my module 2 test fee which was booked for thursday, yeah ok probably shouldnt have booked so close together but just felt so confident I would pass. Seriously cant believe it, its so stupid its almost unbelievable. 5th Module 1 here I come and I WILL PASS AND I WONT FORGET THE SIDESTAND! Eeyore!!!
Booooo .... please, stick at it. You will get there, and it is worth it to end up able to ride 'proper' bikes. I had a bad time taking my test ...... I got t-boned on my own bike days before the Part 1 test. I was ok, but had to borrow a mates bike for the test. Rode it to the test centre, parked up, met with examiner, came back outside, and found that some numpty taking a truck test had reversed into the bike and knocked it over The examiner refused to let me take the test as I obviously couldn't prove the bike was still roadworthy! The biking gods didn't want me on the road that summer! Here I am, almost 30 years happy biking later, and it's all just distant memories!
Do not give up and try not to be to hard on yourself. I did direct access 7yrs ago and failed first time. I came to a crossroads with traffic lights, I had to turn right, the lights were on green and there was oncoming traffic. I pulls up and waits for the green right turn arrow to come on. It didn`t and the lights went to red, I sat there thinking WHAT??? the examiner said "you`d better go" and that was it, game over, up to then I was on two minor points for following a lorry to close and we were on our way back to the test centre. Don`t know if this will make you smile, hope it does. Second time, riding along, comes to a bus stop just outside a pub, two old women stood there, I swear to god, one of them turns, looks at me, lifts her skirt to just above the knee and waggles her leg at me, I`m sure I heard them laughing as I went past. With that image burned on my eyeballs I still went on to pass. You`ll ace it next time .
Awww em bummer Keep trying there is a ducati waiting for ya. I had 3 minors can't remember what now. When I had to do my emergency stop when I pulled up I either knocked my indicator on or had forgotten to turn it off but he gave me the benefit of the doubt phew..... Bloody side stand see a flip up does work sometimes
You will get it, don't worry hubby managed to crash during his emergency stop, hit the fence and badly sprained his ankle, had to wait weeks before he was fit again. Don't worry it happens to the best of us, he is a brilliant rider now (better than me, but don't tell him I said so). I must add that it is so long since I took my test (over 15 years) I am going back to his instructor to re-learn how to do mini roundabouts, never too late to learn.
Gonna take the rs out tomorrow and have a practice on that with a view to taking mod 1 on it as im just throwing money away with using the training schools bike if it's a non runner I'll have to carry on next time as I am!
"Well, that's the end of the test. But I'm sorry, Mr. Bell, you haven't passed." I can remember the words verbatim 35 years on. I can also remember the address of the test centre - 2A Lime Walk, Headington, Oxford. Burnt into my memory as one of the most evil addresses in the world. It's distressing at the time, but hey. This was admittedly car test (but all my mates had passed). In the retake I graunched the gears massively in a downchange on a corner, thought, "right, that's done it now, sod it" and drove the rest of the test in a state of aggressive annoyance. I passed. Certain amount of luck, innit? Did get the bike test first time, but it was in Cambridge.
Passed mine first time, but oh so nearly failed. Had gone through a nearly perfect test despite the previous day's long ride having gone awfully. A few hundred yards from getting back to the test centre, and I've got separated from the examiner and my instructor who was following along, so the examiner has asked me to pull over and wait. Get the instruction over the radio that they've caught up, and start to pull away in the correct manner when some stupid impatient cow in a Renault 21 Savanna (Both the car and her ignorant fat face are ingrained in my memory, 12 years on) decides she cannot be bothered to wait behind the pair of them. She barges past nearly knocking the pair of them over, I spot her coming, bang the brakes on and narrowly avoid a collision. This is shortly followed by a lurid torrent of abuse as I'm now fully expecting to get failed. Get back to the test centre, and the examiner's first words to me were "Now, I'm sure you're aware that swearing at other road users is not the approved method". She then continued "However, you didn't stall it, and you kept the bike under control, so you've passed. Nice choice of words too, they made me smile" It will come, confidence is the key
