Anyone fail the Handling Test?

**Slyer** · 18th April 2009, 03:07

Originally Posted by Dean

I cant wait till you do your restricted test then lol just jokes, i bet you will pass all your tests because your awesome.

Not nearly as awesome as you!

**Danae** · 18th April 2009, 13:55

Yay, I passed mine. Yeah it depends how strict your instructor dudes are. Mine were a couple of guys who were determined to stick to the rule book; pass during the test or not at all. I guess it was kinda good as it kept everyone who went there at the same standard.

Man the slowriding thing...took me ages to go slow enough. It was good fun though.

**Thani-B** · 18th April 2009, 14:21

Originally Posted by Dean

I cant wait till you do your restricted test then lol just jokes, i bet you will pass all your tests because your awesome.

Lol um yeah. Have my restricted and am a few months away from my full. Will be doing my defensive next month with riderskills.

**Reido** · 18th April 2009, 18:28

i probably should have failed mine. But YAY i didnt for some reason or another.

slalom (sp?) was quite hard.

hmm i must get on do doing my defensive at some point too

**quickbuck** · 18th April 2009, 19:22

The way I see it is this:
The BHT is a bunch of tasks set up to assess how you control your motorcycle.
It should not be the only things you need to know before you are let loose on the road (after passing your scratch and win).

Unfortunately some people see it this way, and it makes them a little dangerous....

As for the slow speed test, I would have thought using all your bikes controls to achieve the slow time would demonstrate more skill than saying "you are not allowed to use the brakes".

Oh, and if I were to do it all again, the bike of choice would be a 250 Hornet..... Seriously!
Then I have been riding a few years, and those are the easiest bikes for me to ride....

When I did mine I used my brothers scooter.... An MVX250 would have been a nightmare........ It probably would have blown up.

**paddy** · 18th April 2009, 19:26

I failed the learner eyesight test. I had to go the optometrist who measured my eyesight as 6/6 correctable to 6/4. (That's 20/20 correctable to 20/12 in American.) Go figure...

In terms of the BHS, I took the combined course and test. I've heard some instructors just mark you off as competent once they are happy during the course. My instructor treated it as a test. He was very careful about instructions, outlining the pass criteria for each section, stating that I had two chances etcetera. I lost one mark across the whole thing for stalling the engine during my emergency stop.

Good luck. You'll have a ball...