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Bad luck mate, just have to make sure your eyes are looking all directions next time. Be positive, you will pass!!!

i passed mine first time, i think mainly because i thought i messed up within the first 10 minutes, so that took away all the nerves because i'd assumed i'd failed already. as it turns out though i actually did exactly the right thing and the car driver was at fault, so didn't even get a minor for it, i ended up with 5 minors i think

yehh im trying not to beat myself up about it now. an now tht i've got the experiance under me belt im gonna go back in a week or so and i know the nerves wont get to me asmuch because i know whats gonna happen an how they do the test etc. i just built myself upto it so much tht it came as a wackin great shock.

stiff upper lip young man and don't let the ba##ards grind u down

good luck for the re-test although i'm sure u won't need it

My second test was easy, the Examiner stood in a block and walked down alleyways to come out and watch you at junctions and roundabouts on the circuit so my instructor said that once you get round the corner give it some then you get past the alleyway before he gets there and he has to run back to the next one, i never saw him the whole two circuits until he appeared puffing and panting near the end ready for me to do my emergency stop

Johnnyb wrote:My second test was easy, the Examiner stood in a block and walked down alleyways to come out and watch you at junctions and roundabouts on the circuit so my instructor said that once you get round the corner give it some then you get past the alleyway before he gets there and he has to run back to the next one, i never saw him the whole two circuits until he appeared puffing and panting near the end ready for me to do my emergency stop

hahaha geton. wish it was like tht now

Dig in Tom.

Imagine how sweet it will feel when you do pass!

Good luck next time.

bad luck mate. i had sally for mine and she seemed nice enough. i also had the same rout as you (awful route but there you go)

good luck for your re-sit!

deej wrote:wow mike,i can now say i know someone who failed after training with alex,there doesnt seem to be many compared to some of the others

Add another to the list. I also failed for using my mirrors too much and slowing down too rapidly for a 30 zone. Don't worry Tom your still only young and you will have plenty of time to pass your test and get out there on a big bike.

just pass next time and then post her the L plates

No nerves on my test in 1979... was great fun...

Mind you part of it included riding over a VW Beetle, cross country riding over a training (dartmoor like) area, through a large muddy pit of rain water and going as fast as poss from checkpoint to check point... oh, and the usual stuff on the roads too...

Maver-Nick wrote:No nerves on my test in 1979... was great fun...

Mind you part of it included riding over a VW Beetle, cross country riding over a training (dartmoor like) area, through a large muddy pit of rain water and going as fast as poss from checkpoint to check point... oh, and the usual stuff on the roads too...

If only the current test were like that...

deej wrote:wow mike,i can now say i know someone who failed after training with alex,there doesnt seem to be many compared to some of the others

In actual fact Deej i had called alex on a recommendation, booked it all in then alex rearranged it so he'd do my training in St Austell not Bodmin, little did i know but on first day of training i'm faced with someone by the name of Gren not Alex, alex was in Bodmin with a different group.
Now not being one to make a scene i went along with it and i was trained by Gren, and no fault to gren i failed due to my own faults, after a morning of training with Gren i had passed!

I did let Alex know my feelings and for which he was very apolagetic.

Maver-Nick wrote:No nerves on my test in 1979... was great fun...

Mind you part of it included riding over a VW Beetle, cross country riding over a training (dartmoor like) area, through a large muddy pit of rain water and going as fast as poss from checkpoint to check point... oh, and the usual stuff on the roads too...

Suprised it wasn't an army style "see that Hill? go up it" one.

mikehZX7R wrote:

deej wrote:wow mike,i can now say i know someone who failed after training with alex,there doesnt seem to be many compared to some of the others

In actual fact Deej i had called alex on a recommendation, booked it all in then alex rearranged it so he'd do my training in St Austell not Bodmin, little did i know but on first day of training i'm faced with someone by the name of Gren not Alex, alex was in Bodmin with a different group.
Now not being one to make a scene i went along with it and i was trained by Gren, and no fault to gren i failed due to my own faults, after a morning of training with Gren i had passed!

I did let Alex know my feelings and for which he was very apolagetic.

that sounds about right,his organziation isnt great but the training usually is, the good thing is that his pass rate is so much higher than the others and if someone does fail once its usually something trivial thats easily fixed next time out