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gords:

--- Quote from: "Daz800" ---In our groupe we have had a small number who have failed mainly on what some folk would say petty items like not putting your foot down at a stop sign or for not making progress in traffic if it was safe to doso.
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Umm, it's my understanding that you are supposed to "stop" at a stop sign - the safest option is to therefore put your foot down :wink:

"Making progress" certainly seemed to be key while I was training - and I enjoyed that part of the training rides :D

I seem to remember my test was about 2 hours!

Daz800:
Umm, it's my understanding that you are supposed to "stop" at a stop sign - the safest option is to therefore put your foot down

ok...
yes you have put your foot down when you stop....(but i know some one who did not once). You can on a motorcycle keep rolling (if its safe to do) and as long as you put your foot (touched the road)down its classed as a stop.

Daz

Bush Tucker Man:

--- Quote from: "RichardRRC" ---I passed my car test at the end of '00 with the Wakefield group of the IAM.
There were (I think) 10 classroom based "lessons" on an evening at the local police training college.
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I was initially asssesed with Wakefield, but ended up with a Rothwell based examiner (Leeds group)

Tony F:
I'm training for the bike test at present. It will reduce my premium with BMW insurance (through Devitts) from £320 to £260 a year, that's almost 20%. Seeing as I have had a break from bikes on the road for a few years and therefore no NCB, it's worth doing it for the discount alone.

I have to say it is making me a better rider already and even if some of the ideas do seem a little anal at times, they usually turn out to have good logic behind them.

And even with 28 years of biking under my belt, i'm still tending to learn something new every time I go out on an observed ride. :D

muddymart:
well my experience was quite different to those above, i passed my test in 1990 (17) first time, i was employed by royal mail parcels at the time,however when they went it alone as parcelforce, all our depot had to pass the IAM test to cut down on accidents,improve fuel consumption etc.(this did not improve leaving parcels on doorsteps and in bins!! but it did improve the knock and run method) there was no written test but just one full day of driving, narrating every move you did,(there was 2 of us driving half a day each)when the day ended we was informed that we had passed or not, i did at 21.

It really didnt make any difference to insurance quotes for as long as i can remember, but i thought it would have done as i was under 25.
Can i say i no longer work for parcelforce.

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