STILL A LOSER RIDER (Pointless Rant)

[justsomeguy]

Contact Driver Testing NZ and LTNZ, query her behaviour, especially leaving without warning mid-test. Saw your rear wheel move - bullshit. Over-confident? Double bullshit. Didn't you show the appropriate amount of fear?
This is what happens when people with no driver training or enforcement experience are hired as testers.

Know what you mean Lou, I've been riding for exactly 6 months legally and around 7 months in total in that time I've done nearly 10,000ks - 90% of which has been weekend riding on open country roads... I'm not saying I'm a hot shot super rider, I have many flaws but I am comfortable with my bike I dont feel any sort of newbie awkwardness.... so oh well.....

You know I'd be wayyyyy happier if we had cops looking after driver/rider training again...... yeah, yeah I know they are pigs and all that but at least they have been out in the real world ......

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Hmm..... lots of interesting topics here...

I just had a proper look at my Test Memo - with a calmer mind....

The bitch has written
1. Failure to stop at a stop signs.

2. Improve consistency - smooth riding ensures the bike remains in balance......HUH - I THOUGHT SHE SAID I WAS TOO CONFIDENT.....

by the way her name is LOUISE......

At this stage I'm gonna go to Henderson and just get on with the test.....

Pursuing this issue further is gonna make me blow one of my valves and I'm not talking about those on my bike...... it will be easier to just get on with it on Sat arvo and be done with it....

[justsomeguy]

Back tyre $160? Jesus, it is a 250cc. Just enter a dealer ship and say "please get me a cheap back tyre". My 140/70/17 back tyre cost me less than $100. I get about 12-13Ks before it is failed with 0mm each warrant.

I think you should do your homework before you sit the test again. Be a "riding geek" I think you said? You are just playing their game.

I need a Pirelli Sport demon to match my front tyre.... most of my riding is done out on KB rides so I need a decent tyre...

The cheapest quote I have is from Colemans for 165 fitted and balanced. Others quote me closer to $200


Good point about playing their game - I should have known that...

[Virago]

..........Anyway managed to get to the AA Quay street office in about 10 mins. Was a bit pissed off and and lanesplit through ridiculously small gaps, ended up breaking the plastic mirror surround of a van I passed..... ...... didn't really bother stopping though......

....... and managed to book myself in on Sat afternoon....another $50 that I'm gonna have to sacrife from somewhere else.....(hate being bloody broke)......

Hmmm, I wonder how much it will cost the owner of the broken mirror - a bit more than $50 do you think? And what did they do wrong?

It sounds like you have a serious attitude problem there.........

[Zed]

Then gives me a bit of a bloody debrief asking me how long I've been riding, whether I've done any track days, etc....

Get this she says I'm too confident.... ......WTF ???

Oh JSG, don't tell me you were trying to get your knee down during the big test? Is that why she asked you if you had done any track days?

Seriously though, I worked with an Indian guy last year who failed his drivers licence 5 times in a row for one reason or another, and he wasn't THAT bad a driver. Circumstances sucked that's all, it doesn't always go our way no matter how good we do. I hope you pass on Sat with flying colours this time!

[DingDong]

PMS... you should have booked 2 weeks from today just 2 B safe

Good luck on Saturday... sounds like you'll need it

[justsomeguy]

Hmmm, I wonder how much it will cost the owner of the broken mirror - a bit more than $50 do you think? And what did they do wrong?

It sounds like you have a serious attitude problem there.........

Traffic had stopped at a red light passed by and tapped it with the corner of my mirror at 10kmph.....This is the plastic surrounding the mirror not the glass.... I don't know if it broke or what I didn't stop......but it sent my mirror out of alignment...

Yes I agree I was seeing a bit of the red monster.... couldn't believe I failed.... I know I may not be good enough to pass a full license test, but I'm bloody sure that I'm good enough to pass a restricted....anyway...... yadayadayada

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And Zed I didn't do anything funny..... just drove a lot more carefully and slower than I normally am took a couple of corners at 35ish ks nothing spectacular..... not my day I guess....

Hopefully Sat goes well..... or else it may be me that is wrong....

[campbellluke]

I need a Pirelli Sport demon to match my front tyre.... most of my riding is done out on KB rides so I need a decent tyre...

Why must you match your tyres? I have a Pirelli Sport demon front tyre too. But Kenda back tyre. There is nothing wrong with it. I admit that it doesn't seem to promote even wear.

I am just saying that if you are skint for cash. Go and ask for a Kenda tyre. Your bike is a "||||||||||" you say? Well I don't know what tyres going on one of those. If it's 140mm. You won't be spending more than $100.

That pirelli sports demon tyre you have is not radial btw. But then again I don't know what your bike is.

Tyres... I got one from these guys
http://www.starcycle.com/street.html

Cheap as chips and shipped to my hotel. Not sure what it'd cost to ship to NZ but if there's no hurry (i.e. "I'll need one for the next warrant") then what the hell...

Either that or I'll vouch for AMPS. I've got good deals through them for tyres and helmets in the past...
MDU

Thanks for the website. I click on "kenda" and it just takes be to their website :-( Shame that. Because I could have found out if $100 is a ripoff or resonable.

[justsomeguy]

Why must you match your tyres? I have a Pirelli Sport demon front tyre too. But Kenda back tyre. There is nothing wrong with it. I admit that it doesn't seem to promote even wear.

I am just saying that if you are skint for cash. Go and ask for a Kenda tyre. Your bike is a "||||||||||" you say? Well I don't know what tyres going on one of those. If it's 140mm. You won't be spending more than $100.

That pirelli sports demon tyre you have is not radial btw. But then again I don't know what your bike is.



Thanks for the website. I click on "kenda" and it just takes be to their website :-( Shame that. Because I could have found out if $100 is a ripoff or resonable.

I've got a ZZR250 - cosmetically but mechanically

I've got a Sport D on the front and want to replace the worn rear with the same. I'll find the money to get another Sport D...... can't skimp on decent tyres.... they're life saving, shinny side up keeping thimgamejigs....

I usually like to try and push it so need decent tyres.....

[crashe]

Justsomeguy - What time on Saturday do you have to be at AA on Central Park Drive?

Maybe if weather is fine I could do a follow the leader.... naturally from a distance lol.

[Toast]

you just got to go in there suck cock like your real GAy an theres no tomorrow,
ride like you got a nuke on the back which goes off if you lean more than 5 degress around a corner, an go over 40ks, an keep doing head checks like your paranoid cause people are out to get you.

You got a bad one JSG. I did mine in Greenlane, got a warning for not stopping at a stop sign part way through the test (though I did actually stop, he just couldn't comprehend the fact that I had no feet on the ground and was just wiggling my ass around to stop - showing off to him basically). I was also cornering and, as he described it, 'leaning really far.'

I guess I got off lucky being a cocky little prick that day. Best is to just ride like a nana until they give you that temp licence...then come back later and show them what you can really do

[myvice]

You got a bad one JSG. I did mine in Greenlane, got a warning for not stopping at a stop sign part way through the test (though I did actually stop, he just couldn't comprehend the fact that I had no feet on the ground and was just wiggling my ass around to stop - showing off to him basically). I was also cornering and, as he described it, 'leaning really far.'

I guess I got off lucky being a cocky little prick that day. Best is to just ride like a nana until they give you that temp licence...then come back later and show them what you can really do

So no powerslide with the front wheel in the air while giving a cop the fingers through a red light then?

[SPman]

Read an article a coupla years back about a UK rider that lost his license for excessive speed on the motorway. Due to whatever happens over there, he had to resit his test. This guy was a track instructor and had been riding for many years. Took him 3 attempts, to pass his test! During his test, he was riding the way he always rode, using all the life saving experience and skill he had learnt - BUT IT WASNT THE OFFICIAL, PRESCRIBED WAY OF RIDING, as per the rule book!!!!! So he was failed, until he gave in and rode like a scared nana! Scared, because the prescribed way of riding was extremely unsafe in the real world. Didn't matter - zealous officials do it by the book! Even if the book is wrong in the real world - useless cunts!

[raster]

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Hmm..... lots of interesting topics here...

I just had a proper look at my Test Memo - with a calmer mind....

The bitch has written
1. Failure to stop at a stop signs.

2. Improve consistency - smooth riding ensures the bike remains in balance......HUH - I THOUGHT SHE SAID I WAS TOO CONFIDENT.....

by the way her name is LOUISE......

At this stage I'm gonna go to Henderson and just get on with the test.....

Pursuing this issue further is gonna make me blow one of my valves and I'm not talking about those on my bike...... it will be easier to just get on with it on Sat arvo and be done with it....

I got Louise too, silver subaru imprezza at penrose.
Apparently I wasn't accelerating fast enough, Didn't turn my head(fair enough) or check enough on a controlled rail crossing which hasn't had a train on it for years. The radio kept cutting out to so often I had to wait for her indicators.
I was pissed off at the time, but she was thorough though.
When I resat I got the bike the previous day(red baron hire) and did some practice in a carpark the previous night and riding to work the next day was a buzz. Got a guy in a Lada who asked me if I'd been riding for a while and I was a good confident rider.
no radio, he actually got out of his car and made me do a couple of figure 8's at walking speed, no problem for me as much of my riding is on the driveway. I had to wait for him a couple of times, accelerated too fast.??!!!
After only about 200 Ks of city riding.

[raster]

Good luck on your test this time, might want to exagerate your stopppppssssshitthing???!! Sorry, getting late.

I'm doing defensive driving course over next 2 weeks, 3 months up on the 3/8/05, will be booking for asap after that. Full license here I come.

[justsomeguy]

Justsomeguy - What time on Saturday do you have to be at AA on Central Park Drive?

Maybe if weather is fine I could do a follow the leader.... naturally from a distance lol.

4 pm on the Sat at the Henderson Place.