Embarrassing: Failing Basic Handling Skills!

[KateZed]

Thanks so much everyone for your help.

Sounds like practice is the key. I will get there!! haha

Also...Just to clarify - when i said out on the road, i mean i live semi-rural. So i ride down to the closest subdivision and ride around there, not like out on the road road.

Also when i mean 3 months i mean i've owned the bike three months and spent the first month "learning" (obviously I need a new tutor!! haha) at our neighbours on their driveway and with my sporting commitments can only get out a couple of nights a week to my local subdivision.

Also whoever it was prattling on about insurance - thank you, due to my occupation I know all the rules!!

[kilgh]

Nice reply!

[rustic101]

Also whoever it was prattling on about insurance - thank you, due to my occupation I know all the rules!!

Whilst 'labels' are for jam jars, you could slap a different label on everyone in here. The one thing most people have is a genuine concern for you and others combined with a willingness to want to help.

Best of skills (luck) next time

[KateZed]

All your comments have inspired me to re book my BHS, with a lesson prior!!

I would rather good skills be keeping me on the road, rather than just science!

[KateZed]

Whilst 'labels' are for jam jars, you could slap a different label on everyone in here. The one thing most people have is a genuine concern for you and others combined with a willingness to want to help.

Best of skills (luck) next time

Genuinely appreciated

[imdying]

You won't need luck, you know what's coming now, so you'll be able to ride rings around the course next time

[DJSin]

All your comments have inspired me to re book my BHS, with a lesson prior!!

I would rather good skills be keeping me on the road, rather than just science!

Definitely rebook and practice!!

Hope to see you out on the Tga streets (legally of course ) sometime

[PrincessBandit]

Agreed...maybe a 'bad hair day' when she went for her test. Better at her test than riding over the Kaimais!

You can say that again!!!

Fuck off how many bikers have been taken out by other bikers, turn your concern to the thousands of incompetent car drivers they are the ones you need to be concerned about

Snicker

Don't look at the cones, set yourself up heading straight for them then look up and ahead to where you want to go to, you will still see the cones in your peripheral vision and should be able to get through them no worries.

I can't believe her bhs tutor wouldn't have told her that, shirley???

Some of us do.

Ooooh moobies!

Don't remember posting that, you like altering others posts to satisfy your own needs?

Don't take it too personally, it's a favourite passtime around here mate.

[caseye]

Kate, sorry but it has to be said.
Please don't ride on "the road" until you have your BHS firmly in your grasp.
I apprecaite your particular circumstance and that you may well be up to speed with insurance etc.
Many here have concentrated on the advice and positive encouragement aspect.
Your one outstanding advocate, who was as ignorant of your meaning of "On the road" as the rest of us were.
Seems hell bent on telling everyone else here(most of whom have full licences and years of expereince at riding motorcycles on the open road) that it's OK for you or anyone else who thinks that they can, to do so without being approved to do so by a qualified instructor.
Who, I'd venture didn't want to fail you, but felt compelled to do so for you own safety.Of course also for the safety of those already on the road whatever they may be riding or driving who have at least passed their tests and are approved to be there.
This thread has already gone to 7 pages.
The invitation from Mom is, I can assure you phil K a genuine one.Take her up on it, explain it to her and lets hear back from Anne soon about how this meeting went.
Your attitude towards kate and her initial post is truely amazing.
it's dangerous enough out there with all of the unlicenced, unregistered drivers and riders, unwarrantable cars and bikes without encouraging someone with so few riding skills to go out there and give it a go , never mind that just one slip and her and anyoine else close enough to her at the time could and most probably would be badly /severely hurt.
The word "Irresponsible" comes to mind but frankly thats too soft.
I believe it should be "Truely Un Fucking Believeable" that in this day and age you have continued to spout forth about people needing to learn somewhere and that it';s OK if it's on the road, when clearly for Kate and her BHSC ( by the way, it is a Basic Handling Skills Certificate) Instructor it is NOT OK.
Yours being the only voice among the many in this thread saying, Ok, how is it that you still haven't got it.
IT IS NOT OK! to go on the open road without being certified, full stop end of arguement.

[GPXchick]

So i met with this great guy Trevor Birchall. I had never ridden a bike before EVER! Within 1 hr 45 mins i had learnt the basic controls and passed my test. NOW WHAT. so i came on here and got some great advice. My block and neighbours must be spewin listening to me UP and down all bloody day when i can..... GO to the test use the GN125, its so easy to manipulate around those cones, FOLLOW YOUR NOSE, watch this guy i have learnt so much from using Throttle, clutch back brake control. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xJTju_gUqA this guys technique has really helped me. GOOD LUCK NEXT TIME don't give up

[KateZed]

Kate, sorry but it has to be said.
Please don't ride on "the road" until you have your BHS firmly in your grasp.

...Abridged...

IT IS NOT OK! to go on the open road without being certified, full stop end of arguement.

Thank you for your opinion Caseye, after 7 pages of comments I really was just after some advice (and previous experiences) on the BHSC. I felt I needed to give a bit of background on my circumstances so people could give me some accurate advice.

It really wasn't my intention for people to comment on whether I (or anyone) should be on the road without a licence.

I certainly am no angel along with all the other people in NZ that break the law in some respect!

Had I left that part out it would have made the difference of about 6.5 pages of comments... being a newbie to KB I have certainly learnt my lesson the hard way! haha

I have gotten the advice (and encouragement) I needed (Thank you everyone).

On speaking to the bike instructor yesterday he thinks a half an hour lesson will bring me up to speed which is good to hear.

I will keep ya'll posted!

[Qkchk:Me]

In the BHS test there is an allowance to extend the cones from 3.5M to 4M (still with an offset of 0.5M) for motorcycles with a longer wheelbase. Would of thought the instructor would of 'tested' your bike on the cone weave to see if they could actually do it at 3.5M!

I hope you got a friend to ride the bike to the testing ground for you!

[Hellzie]

1. Rules / laws are usually there for a reason
2. Even if the BHS doesn't teach you EVERYTHING you need to know about riding it is an essential part of learning to ride, and a legal requirement
3. When learning to ride, a good attitude to have is that there's always more to learn, and that there's plenty of time to do it, so don't rush or take shortcuts.

[Little Miss Trouble]

Also...Just to clarify - when i said out on the road, i mean i live semi-rural. So i ride down to the closest subdivision and ride around there, not like out on the road road.

Not the new subdivision out past Pyes Pa?

I can't believe her bhs tutor wouldn't have told her that, shirley???

The way I read the OP was that she didn't have a lesson before hand, just paid for the test itself... I could be wrong, in which case, yes they should definitely have told her that.

[steve_t]

Kate, sorry but it has to be said.
Please don't ride on "the road" until you have your BHS firmly in your grasp.

Just to clarify something I'd said earlier in the thread - Don't you need to have your Learner's Licence before you ride on "the road"? Just having the BHS/BHSC or whatever you want to call it isn't enough is it?