Rosie
20th November 2007, 14:01
Soon my nice green licence will be arriving in the mail.
It's a nice warm sunny day in Rotorua, and the testing guy insisted that I get fully suited up with his little earpiece thing before we had our pre test chat and checked the bike over. So I was getting nice and hot and sweaty, before we had even gone anywhere.
About 3 intersections into the test, the earpiece had moved and I couldn't hear what I was supposed to be doing. So I pulled over to give it an adjust. Testing guy was a little concerned that if I kept stopping to adjust it, we would run out of time, but it was ok after that. We went around in circles (literally, at times) in an extremely quiet part of suburban Rotorua.
Then the guy pulled over, and said I was to go on ahead and do a u turn when he said. So I continued, and continued until I can barely see him, then was asked to pull over and do the turn.
I struggle with u-turns. I was practising last night, with mixed success, so this was the bit I was nervous about. It wasn't exactly silky smooth, but I kept my feet up.
Back onto a larger road, we pulled up by a dairy and had a 2 minute chat about the kinds of hazards one might expect to see in that area. He said I was riding very well.
Then we headed out to the main road to Tokoroa. This got the air conditioning going in my jacket, so I wasn't quite so slimy and sweaty. I rode for 6km, did another u-turn (his driving-tester sixth sense obviously picked up on my dislike of u-turns) and we headed back to the testing station.
He commented that my bike got along pretty well (I was very careful to stick to the speed limits though), and said that there wasn't really anything more he needed to say about my riding.
So my nice new green licence will be in the mail soon :wari::wari::wari:
Oddly, I don't have any immediate plans to use my new licence, since I've recently bought a 250 which no longer has pillion pegs, and I'm usually safely tucked up in bed between 10pm and 5am. But it will be nice to be back to having an adult licence :2thumbsup
It's a nice warm sunny day in Rotorua, and the testing guy insisted that I get fully suited up with his little earpiece thing before we had our pre test chat and checked the bike over. So I was getting nice and hot and sweaty, before we had even gone anywhere.
About 3 intersections into the test, the earpiece had moved and I couldn't hear what I was supposed to be doing. So I pulled over to give it an adjust. Testing guy was a little concerned that if I kept stopping to adjust it, we would run out of time, but it was ok after that. We went around in circles (literally, at times) in an extremely quiet part of suburban Rotorua.
Then the guy pulled over, and said I was to go on ahead and do a u turn when he said. So I continued, and continued until I can barely see him, then was asked to pull over and do the turn.
I struggle with u-turns. I was practising last night, with mixed success, so this was the bit I was nervous about. It wasn't exactly silky smooth, but I kept my feet up.
Back onto a larger road, we pulled up by a dairy and had a 2 minute chat about the kinds of hazards one might expect to see in that area. He said I was riding very well.
Then we headed out to the main road to Tokoroa. This got the air conditioning going in my jacket, so I wasn't quite so slimy and sweaty. I rode for 6km, did another u-turn (his driving-tester sixth sense obviously picked up on my dislike of u-turns) and we headed back to the testing station.
He commented that my bike got along pretty well (I was very careful to stick to the speed limits though), and said that there wasn't really anything more he needed to say about my riding.
So my nice new green licence will be in the mail soon :wari::wari::wari:
Oddly, I don't have any immediate plans to use my new licence, since I've recently bought a 250 which no longer has pillion pegs, and I'm usually safely tucked up in bed between 10pm and 5am. But it will be nice to be back to having an adult licence :2thumbsup