DAS tips

Can anyone recomend a good web site that goes through what an instructor is
looking for when they are testing you for your das?? (searched for some, but
most seem to bring up twatty driving simulators.. i mean come on, do people
really expect to pass their test by playing a driving game then expecting it
to be like that in the real world

i'm doing my das next week, and i've picked up a bit from doing my cbt the
other week.. things like the instructor will be looking for you being in the
centre of the lane when going round a corner.. rather than the more usefull
get to one side and apex it... apparantly the middle of the lane thing shows
you can controll the bike round corners properly,

he'll want to see me moving 3 foot out from any parked cars... something i
am working on.. been driving a big motorhome for too long.. i will squeeze
that through places car drivers wouldent go.. and i'll get within wing
mirror distance from a parked car if i have to.. thinking they'll come off
worse if they open the door on me .. but that's not a good thing to do on
a bike.. neither is forcing the boy racers to give way at the roundabout in
town that's always blocked up.

I know i'll be taught all this on my training days, but i'd like to learn as
much as i can before then.. and practice on my 125 over the next week, so
hopefully the das training days will just be breaking any bad habits i've
got into and polishing up owt i'm not that good on.

 

CampinGazz wrote

FFS, give it fucking rest, you worry too much. The geezer will be
looking for you to be riding moderately competently and extremely safely
for about 10 minutes. Concentrate on it then.

Good idea. Experience gained from practice is good.

 

Not quite right. I suggest you do not do this if you want to live
until you have had a chance to do the DAS training. If your
instructor is any good he will explain why.

 

Not really a good thing unless you *really* know what you're doing. You
might want to consider keeping to the *outside* of the bend, unless that
would bring you into conflict with oncoming traffic. That gives you the
best view around the corner you see.

OTOH I really wouldn't worry about it. As long as you don't run into the
gutter, or over the line, you should be fine.

Well, it's not good on DAS

Don't worry about it. DAS is pretty simple really. Get out there and
enjoy it.
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In

10 minutes? You're showing your age.

 

No, no - Die tips...... You need to brush up on your German....

Nick

 

I suspect it just pokes out without him noticing.

 

ROFL.

Oh lol, thanks, that's the funniest thing I've heard today.

 

okay, can i be forgiven.. it has been 15 years since i lived in germany..
and even then i could never get the hang of the der, die and das thing

RE the d.a.s. thing, i was just after some pointers on what not to do.. i.e
common fails and things, so i can spend the next week practicing as i'm sure
i do half of the things i could fail on now.

 

Flops out is probably closer to the truth.

 

CampinGazz wrote:

From memory, you shouldn't really do the following:
Crash
Put your foot down when doing a U Turn
Forget to cancel your indicators
Exceed the speed limit
Forget to do lifesaver looks when manouvering
Not offer to pay for coffees

There prolly are other things too, but I can't remember them.

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Forgetting to offer to suck the examiner's cock would also be a
faux-pas. Also, afterwards try to swallow cleanly and not dribble.

God I'm getting bored with WastinGazz and his constant stream of
questions. With a bit of luck he'll crash and die soon.

 

He certainly seems very, erm, enthusiastic about all this. Hope it lasts
longer than his TS125

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I don't. I hope he loses interest.

I don't want *any* more bikes on the road. As it is there are too many
of the fuckers.

I mean, you can't go for a decent drunken drive any more without some
newbie-twat on a bike wobbling around in front of you. I tell you, one
day I'm going to kill one of the fuckers.

 

You are the anti-sir-tony AICMFF Jizz stained shrubs

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Forgetting to cancel your indicators is a common[1] cause of failure.

[1] common in so far as both the people taking the test in the same
session as I last year both failed because of this.

 

At last we have the real reason for going to war.

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Paging Ginge...

 

hello! you back? or netcafeing?

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They aren't indicators, they're circus lights.

How was your trip back by the way? You *almost* caught us up after
missing the turning..