Mostly the BHS test is just low speed handling.
For practise set up a dozen cones (basically anything you can safely run over) in a strait line in a carpark at say 6m centres (just pace it) and weave them. 6m should be fairly easy for a nevrous learner, then once you have mastered them at 6m, drop the spacing by .5 of a meter and master that. Repeat until you can achieve 3.5m, which if memory serves correctly is what you are meant to be tested at.
If you get that ok, you should hose through the rest of the test. If not, you could book a lesson or 2 cause you are doing something/s fundamentally wrong, which will be easy for an instructor to correct.
The most common problems a learner will encounter during this exercise is
A) throttle control. If you are winding on or off the throttle even a tiny bit it can/will stuff you up. Place you thumb on the switch block beside the throttle if necessary to steady your throttle hand during this exercise
B) where you look. Simple, you look at a cone you hit it. So pick a point on the horizon and DON'T take you eye off of it - there are NO exceptions to this rule in this exercise. Spot the cones only out of your peripheral vision.
Another exercise worth trying is to get in a carpark and do low speed figure eights using a couple of cones as centre points. Set them a comfortable distance apart and reduce as confidence builds. Same throttle control and where you look applies here too, except look where you want to be in a couple of seconds, again DON'T look at the cones - ever!
Once you are happy doing this exercise, then try weighting your outside foot peg (only at low speed) as you go around a curve and see what difference this makes. What difference does a heap of weight make?
Originally Posted by Tank
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