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  1. #11 Re: driving test coming up! 
    C-Moto Senior davidqc's Avatar
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    Bad luck on the test there Jape. But at least ya don't have to do the dreaded EU Module 2 'killer' serve test: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8067212.stm

    It has been reported that in the first 3 and a half weeks since the swerve test was introduced earlier this year there were 15 accidents whilst performing the manoeuvre and the injured candidates taken away from the DSA test centre by ambulance. Nice. You couldn't make it up.
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    That is crazy! The test here includes at least two swerves at random following orange light prompts, left or right, or emergency braking if it shows red ... but at least it is meant to be at just 20 odd kph. And it is done whatever the weather or light, that is a stated condition of test application.

    My difficulty is actually the slow speed, in practice it works better when you are at normal road speeds, the brain takes over and you just do it right if you are experienced enough - but at slow speeds you tend to try and think or anticipate and personally I swerve better with some momentum, I usually lean rather than steer, steering feels wrong but you cannot lean easily at that slow speed especially on knobbies.

    At the braking distance you are allowed it is almost impossible to brake, using both brakes and clutch properly, without the back wheel lifting off the ground. That was enough to make a few people I watched lose balance or panic and over rev, hand clamped in panic to the screaming throttle and unable to move because of the intense grip on the brake lever, clutch and bars.

    Takes them a while to work out what to do next ... like relax, release brake but not clutch - a couple dropped the clutch with both feet planted on the ground, rear wheel in the air and hopped a metre then stalled. One fell off. Goodness knows who devises these tests. They are thinking apparently of making them harder, wonder what they have in mind?
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