Quay Street Restricted test info

[Phcyso]

Hi All

I just passed my restricted test at the AA on Quay Street in auckland central and i through i would pass on a bit of info about my experience as the threads i read before i went in for it helped me a fair bit with what to expect.

As i have had a broken bike that i i was too lazy to fix i had not ridden a bike at all for about 6 months before i decided to get my next level of license

and even when i had a working bike had not used it as much as should have by walking to work instead of riding..
All up i would guess i would have had about 200kms of riding experience over 18 months

so what i did was i went on a test preparation course with Philip from RiderSkills (http://www.riderskills.co.nz/) who i can not recommend high enough. he took me out for about two hours and went over the rough points in my riding and spent a good portion on what the tester would be looking for.

He also let me take home his GN250 training bike so i could use it it for my test the next day.

when i turned up at the AA on Quay they were running on time so bang on 1530 my name got called and we went out for the test.

the tester had a radio with a ear piece which he gave me directions through so i dint have to suffer by trying to watch for indicators in my mirrors .

He had me do two u turns on the same street and there was no emergency stopping section.

otherwise it was just a pretty normal drive around, turn left here, turn right here, go straight etc.

one thing the tester told me before going out was "Move your head when you are looking, even if you can see things fine move your helmet so i can see you are looking" which was a nice touch.

I only got three 'fails' one for not indicating on a turn, one for not going a full look check on my second u turn and one for stopping too close to the center line on a right hand turn.

All up i am very pleased i did the test preparation as with out it i certainly would have failed, and i can recommend the tester from the AA on QUAY as very professional and giving me a nice easy test.


now i can look forward to getting myself a nice shiny new bike and reap the benefits of cheaper insurance! :)

I have attached a rough map of the route i took, i missed a few streets cause i could not remember what they were called but they were all little side streets in the same area.

[meatface]

A second for that route. I did it just the other day and did the same route pretty much. One U turn at the end of a dead end street (really wide).

Other than that just riding around. I even managed to lose the tester for a brief moment but I just pulled over and waited (she let me know on the radio).

Really felt like I was crusing around at about 20 the whole time but it was suggested that i stay around 45-50 but don't go over.

I did it at 7am and there was a little bit of traffic around but nothing to bad. Probably the hardest manuvere was turning right, into Gladstone.

Anyway good luck to anyone reading this looking for advice ;O)

[Ninja82]

Thanks for that I've been wondering if doing that test prep with Rider SKills would be worth while or not. You just never know where your little faults are do ya. That is tops with the heads up. Cheers :)

[Leyton]

What are they looking for in the U Turn ?, What is the proceedure ?

I usally stop on the side of the road, Indicate, Check, Wheel the bike back on a helping angle (I have a Hysosung that does not like playing lock to lock with u-turns), then check again and feather the clutch around the U-Turn

Cheers in advance
How did you do it ?

Leyton

[breakaway]

When I did my restricted @ Westgate, only thing the guy tried to call me out on was that my head checks were "too short". Wtf? I responded with "I look behind me and saw no cars, so I turned my head back". I was unaware I had to spend 20 minutes doing a single head check.