Did my motorbike theory test today and I can't decide if you would have to be a muppet to fail, or whether it is actually quite hard. Does it really have any effect on your driving? Most questions could be answered on common sense. But I did get two wrong.

 

I got one question which was more or less a re-wording of another question i had already had so the system is a bit dodgy somewhere. I have to say during my rigorous training, I was distracted by Suzi Perry's* pert nipples, then again with her with a cute set of leathers on astride a Harley. Tsck tsck.

 

Does anyone fail? I know I'm already a driver which must make a big difference, but just seems a lot of trouble for the DSA to go to when it use to be a couple of questions in the car with the examiner.

 

Has anyone sat the Hazard Perception thing before? I dropped eleven points so does that make me a dozy tit? Some of the video clips were a bit weird- two shifty looking guys pissing about in the back of a van then all of a sudden- whoof, one of them leaps out the back of the van with a carpet roll over his shoulder right into the oncoming traffic which was a bit Buster Keaton.

 

Is it just me, or did the hypothetical car you're driving seems to be taking it a bit swift round town, and be right up some poor biker's arse half the time? You 'respond' to some div in a truck pulling out over two lanes, next minute in the same clip, your overtaking a push bike while it overtakes a bin lorry and something comes at you from the front. This was after some old git had wantonly swung his door open without a care in the world and a bunch of school kids had given me the finger from a parked minibus. Going by the video you must be a fairly poor driver or freakily doomed, with cars pulling out left right and centre at you.

 

I felt like maybe I should have been scratching my arse or picking my nose or checking out the girl at the next video booth, to make the driving experience a bit more authentic. I'm still well pissed off I didn't know the sign for a roundabout, or that I should not stay with my bike in a tunnel if it knackers up.

 

* Suzi Perry- 'star' presenter of the DSAs Roadsense Video.

I was a motorcycle trainer up to Feb and after 17 years of it I could see the way things were going.

Most of us would probably fail the Hazard perception test (HPT) as it is wholly aimed at the novice...you probably saw more than was required and clicked too early or at the wrng time!!

Dont forget...they are looking for a reaction to a particular hazard not a potential one...I tried this and clickerd like ferk on me mouse....only just scraped through!!!

Who gives a sh*t anyway...you passed!! Well done mate...dont sell the zed though!!! :dance:

http://www.suziperry.com/gallery/source/34.html

Hubba hubba !!!!!

Hubba hubba !!!!!

 

 

Oh yes!! :hyper: A lovely looking girl who is articulate, interesting and really knows her stuff! A very rare beed on telly these days.

I did one of these hazard perception test things for work (drive a lot of business miles) and I must I say I found the same - I just simply would not get into the situations shown in the first place. For that reason I found it quite hard to know what the "proper" order of sorting out all the cock-ups was!