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mike the bike:
I failed my first bike test because the C90 let me down. I hadn't used it for a couple of months because I was riding my 400four.
Anyway, on day of the test, I wheeled the now unfamiliar and underpowered step thru in a fetching hearing - aid brown, blew the sawdust off it and and ride to the test centre. Because it felt neglected, the bloody thing began sulking and would lose power - as if running on half a cylinder. By faffing about with the choke lever on the carb I could get it to behave itself.
In those days the examiner was on foot and directed me to ride in left hand circuits around the block until he said so, followed by right hand circuits, followed by the emergency stop.
It was while I was cajoling a few more horses from the thing by leaning forward, fiddling with the carb, then an old codger decided to cross the road. I almost knocked the old coot sideways and muttered an apology while hoping the examiner was the other side of the block.
He wasn't.
Green1:
Frank Spencer comes to mind ;D
mike the bike:
Or Victor Meldrew. ;D
Green1:
This is how I shall always see you now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAUvNlsOs0U
MCTID:
My first Bike Test was on my Lambretta. I stopped at a Pedestrian Crossing only for a British Rail Truck to plough into the back of my Lambretta.....remember those pug ugly three wheeler monstrosities that humped suff around the Railway Stations. End of Test ! My second Bike Test was funny.....the Examiner told me to go around a circuit and at some stage he would step out and then I was to perform an 'Emergency Stop'. I spotted him in plenty of time and managed a perfect and controlled stop.....much to the delight of some Factory Workers eating their butties sitting outside their Factory....they all rose to their feet and started clapping my sterling efforts. Mr Examiner was NOT amused and got a bit haughty. Despite that I passed anyway.
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