Doing my BHS

**breakaway** · 29th March 2007, 08:13

Hello,

I think that the time has come for me to do my BHS.

Before I booked, I was wondering if someone could tell me:

1. How far apart are the cones in the slalom?

2. How tight is the figure 8?

3. Whats a good place to do it? (I'd like to go to one of those Training + BHS Session tests, just in case.)

Thanks in Advance

**Delphinus** · 29th March 2007, 09:17

Try http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/licensing/mo...e-learner.html

Cone weaving (slalom) - You must ride along a slalom course, weaving between cones placed 3.5 metres apart.

Cant help you with where sorry, as I live a bit further south, but you could ring up the LTSA and ask for someone in your area who does the BHS and discuss with them doing a lesson beforehand.

**Kinje** · 29th March 2007, 09:26

Not so close that it's all that hard. I had a lessons where I was taught the basic controls, then started doing some of the test drills. Did a quick practice in the second lesson then flew through the test

. And I'd never ridden a motorbike before.

Good luck, enjoy the riding

**Winter** · 29th March 2007, 09:37

Originally Posted by breakaway

Hello,

I think that the time has come for me to do my BHS.

Before I booked, I was wondering if someone could tell me:

1. How far apart are the cones in the slalom?

2. How tight is the figure 8?

3. Whats a good place to do it? (I'd like to go to one of those Training + BHS Session tests, just in case.)

Thanks in Advance

I can only answer #3 : Im booked in to do my training + BHS at riderskills on april 7th

http://www.riderskills.co.nz/default...&rightbar=none

HTH

**Winter** · 29th March 2007, 09:39

Originally Posted by breakaway

Hello,

I think that the time has come for me to do my BHS.

Before I booked, I was wondering if someone could tell me:

1. How far apart are the cones in the slalom?

2. How tight is the figure 8?

3. Whats a good place to do it? (I'd like to go to one of those Training + BHS Session tests, just in case.)

Thanks in Advance

oh and it says there :

"You must ride along a slalom course, weaving between cones placed 3.5 metres apart."

**Fub@r** · 29th March 2007, 10:04

From my personal experience I can only say good things about Riderskills plus feedback I got from others who I recommended him to.

For me the only exercise in the test I found difficult was the riding in a straight line where you have to do it in over 10 seconds, think my time was 11 seconds on the second attempt, first attempt was 9 seconds

**Lissa** · 29th March 2007, 21:46

I did my BHST and knew absolutely nothing about it before I got there. Just enjoy it, they will teach you everything you need to know... its really a peice of cake.

**cowboyz** · 29th March 2007, 21:55

the slalom is 3.5m apart but .5m offset as well. practice by measuring out and doing a dumby(sp?) run. I dont actually remember doing a figure 8. probably did. When I did mine I was rather impatient with the guy as he was rattling off all sorts of stuff and he was telling me to go to the end of the run and accelerate as fast as I could (I stopped listening after that) and then said when he raises his hand perform an emergency stop.
Well I did the accelerating thing alright and then when he raised his hand I realised what was going on and jumped on the brakes. The POS bike I was on (borrowed from him) front brakes were useless and rear barely worked and I jumped on them hard. Back locked up and I slid for about 20m. He said he should fail me for locking the rear wheel but it looked good and bike remained striaght and in control throughtout the skid so let me pass. The hardest part of the test was the ride 18 metres in more than 10 secs thing cause the throttle kept sticking so I had to keep riding the clutch and the bike was revving the shit out of itself. I even took my right hand off to show him it wasn't me revving the crap out of his bike.

**breakaway** · 30th March 2007, 15:06

3.5m for the cones, thats way more than I thought it would be. Should be real easy

I misread the above post as 10m in 10 secs, so I went and measured the driveway and did 10m in 11 secs, so I don't predict problems in that part.

Thanks for the input guys

**TygerTung** · 30th March 2007, 15:19

Yeah it's pretty easy, I practised on a CG110 before I went in there and I was used to the CG110 with the front brake which didn't really work and I jumped on this scooter and locked up the front for a sec when I grabbed a handful of brakes for the emergancy stop but he passed me anyway.

**shadynz** · 30th March 2007, 19:50

I went to passrite in Penrose a couple of months ago, not knowing a thing about how to ride a bike... They seemed a decent bunch. Just off Church St there, so pretty close to you.

Think it cost around $200 from memory.. You got like 1 1/2 hours tuition before the BHS test (things like starting, stopping, turning etc etc), and then once you pass they take you down to LTSA in Mt Wellington and you can sit your learners licence scratchy...

I dunno how that cost compares anywhere else.. it might be expensive.. But I just wanted to get the whole thing done and dusted in one go and it was all good.

No figures 8's in there either.. woohoo..

**KLOWN** · 30th March 2007, 19:56

I just rocked up and passed. Never ridden a scooter or a bike. Cost me $20

**breakaway** · 30th March 2007, 20:05

Originally Posted by KLOWN

I just rocked up and passed. Never ridden a scooter or a bike. Cost me $20

Where was this?

**Fub@r** · 30th March 2007, 20:13

Originally Posted by breakaway

Where was this?

I would recommend you go to a proper testing agent. When I was looking at a new bike t a shop they offered to do my test for that sort of price all they wanted me to do was to drive up and down the driveway. But I learnt so much in a proper BHS course that riding up and down a driveway would never have taught me