DAS tips

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I suppose you would rather that we talked about nothing but Ipods then?

Good on the bloke, he is obviously a twat but at least he is trying to
do something about it.

 

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Well, yes.

Well, yes.

But on that subject; would it not be more appropriate to address the
current bunch of fair weather only, slow riding, wheelie free, kiddie
toy riders who are infesting the place directly rather than new ones?

 

I'd rather we talked about something amusing. The witterings of pre-DAS
wanna-bees get to be a little repetitive.

Eh? He's getting a bike to whack on the back of some big fucking camper
wagon. ****.

 

I thought we were taking the second exit to wherever it was. Still, I
probably had a longer more boring ride back as a result so it's all good.

 

Nope, we're back.

 

Funny you should say that. We were putting two and two together: Mat's bike,
Bear's alarm, my finger, Bonwick's bearings, etc.

This time you don't go and everything works out fine for everyone.

 

well ta for the kind words,

yes i'll admit i seem to have the knack of pissing people off with relative
ease, everyone's got to be good at something tho.

Sorry for all the questions.. but i thought that was what this place was
for, never done a motorcycle test before in my life.. cbt was the most i
did, not had any training yet either.. other than cbt, so i was trying to do
my best to prepare my self for the test next week, and thinking that 90% of
the poeple on here will have taken their test.. they could share their
experiances,

So i've got a motorhome.. sorry for that, but i built the fucker with my own
hands, so i'm not about to give it away just so i can be a 'real' biker, my
main reason for getting a bike origionaly was to put on the back of the van
so we can get about easier when we go places,

Things have changed a bit.. a 2 stroke 125 trials style bike isn't for me
anymore.. when i was 17 it was.. but i've got older, my back's got even more
fucked, and i just find it a pain to ride.. both mentaly and physicaly,

Hence the cruiser choice, that may be wrong for us too, but only one way to
find out, and we'll be towing it with a trailer yes.. but that's only when
we go away in the van, the idea being we'd do the 500 miles to scotland in
the van (and next year to germany again), park up somewhere nice, then tour
round on the bike, having nice comfortable cheap accomodation to go home to
every night that's not too far away,

The rest of the time the bike will get used as daily transport, defiantely
not a sunny weather only bike, can't see hte point of that.. and i know i'll
need shares in a chrome polish company to do that with a cruiser.

 

Heh, it's a pre-requisite round here.

Don't be put off.

Old age mate, creeps up on ya

I wouldn't broadcast that too loudly, otherwise you'll end up with a bunch
of hairy arsed bikers on tour wanting to share your comfortable cheap
accomodation.

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Dan L (Oldbloke)
My NEW bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
My old Bike 2000 Honda CB500 (for sale)
M'boy's Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)

BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26

 

That's your failing.

90% of the people in here _haven't_ done the test because they're old
cunts.

Even me, I did mine in 96 when you did a CBT and then a test, both on
a 125 and it gave you a licence for any bike, un-restricted.

I can't imagine the DAS part is too different from my test part
though.

 

I'm watching you, Sales.

 

You doggers are all the same.

 

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

Thought I'd disconnected the webcam.

Wonder if I can charge?

 

Ben says...

Dead right and proud of it too. I arrived at the test centre on a
friend's Kawasaki KE100[1] having had zero training, spent 10 minutes
riding around the block, saw the examiner twice, answered about 5
questions from the highway code and passed. I took my test certificate
from the very nice man, swopped keys with another mate, jumped on his
Honda CB900F and rode away. It cost me 7 quid.

[1] My own 5 day old Yamaha RD250E had failed to start because the CDi
unit packed up on the morning of my test.

 

<round of applause><falls asleep again>

 

When I did my test we weren't allowed to use mirrors even if fitted,
so _all_ rear obs had to be done by means of a shoulder-check, rather
than just the so-called 'lifesaver' currently required.

But you know what? Since I've had bikes with decent mirrors, I _never_
look over my shoulder any more. Mirrors rock.

 

My point was that this insistence on shoulder-checks/lifesavers to
pass the test is perhaps unnecessary. Proper, and regular, use of
mirrors should be suffucuent for a 99.99% certauinty of what;s behind
you, in all situations. Turning your head away from your direction of
travel probably carries a higher degree of risk than any possible
increase in awareness it may bring.

Basically, it's just so that the tester can see that you've looked
behind, same as it always was, and let's face it, they're not really
interest in what happens in real-world, way over the speed limit,
situations.