Expressions of interest. NSW 'L's who will be doing 'P's

Guy Stanford and myself may be setting up an area in the North West of
Sydney on Sunday for the purposes of practicing the MOST test.

The area is an unpopulated estate that has stop signs, give way signs
and roundabouts so it is a good place to practice general driving.

We will be setting of a section with the exercises from the MOST test.

If anyone is interested in coming along please email me at

stan_gifford at iinet.net.au

If this works out ok it is probable that it may get repeated.

NOTE: We will be setting up the area and will be available for general
questions/advise. You however must take the risks involved upon yourself.

I do have one taker in the person of my daughter!

Stan

 

A couple-o tips that helped me no end, if I may. First up,
the ones they're all terrified of are the cone weave and
the u-turn. (I noted that the people who failed did so on
the stopping exercises though)

Make the u-turn a 6.0m box (not the RTA's 6.3m) and pin a
red flag (or any bloody thing) about 2 metres off the ground
on a pole across behind the entrance to the box (ie: you've
gotta look RIIIIIGHT over your shoulder to see it). Tell
the punters to keep their eyes on the flag throughout the
exercise - ignore the edges of the box, they take care of
'emselves.


When you're doing the cone weave, set them 3.5m apart
(RTA: 3.6m) and with an 0.8m offset (RTA: 0.6m). Even go
as far as to set up 6 instead of 5 if you feel so inclined).
When you're guiding your crew through the cone weave, *you*
stand up the far end, put your thumbs in your ears, wave
your fingers and generally make a clown of yourself. They
watch you, forget that the cone weave is difficult, and
pull it off every time.


Use full sized roadworks cones for practice. When they
do the actual MOST test with the RTA, find that the
course is shorter, bigger and the cones are tinier, it
adds a nice little burst of confidence and they manage
no worries.


Just thoughts.

G

 

Good stuff - many thanks.

Stan

 

LOL, my test was "Righto hotshot! Go 'round the block and be back here by the time I finish my cup of tea...."

 

Dad did this to me when I was learning to reverse park ...
basically, I learnt to reverse the Torana in a box about 2'
longer than the car, and when it came to the test it was
very very easy ...

-----sharks (yes, used to drive a Torana)

 

<Insert standard AOL answer> Me too!
<end insert>

Stan

 

LOOXURY !! I had to do a U turn as well as going around the block !

JL
(mind you I had the whole road to do the U turn in)

 

They must've picked on me. I had to do a figure eight and emergency stop
in the car park then follow the tester nazi at slow walking pace to the
gate while he questioned my pipes trying to make me lose balance. When I
stoped as he walked across the footpath, he called me a smarty and said go
around the block and the paper work will be done, but try to go quietly up
the back street this time (I lived over the back). All on a 900GTS.

 

U-turn, left turn, stop sign, U-turn, stop sign, park. I must have got the
advanced test.

Al

by the time I finish my cup of tea...."

 

Heh heh; "Smarty"... YOU?!!?

 

I just had to do the U turn, but when I turned round the copper had
walked back inside to do the paperwork.

Moike

 

The tester looked over the bike then I had to go down the street, do a
U-turn, left, around the block, down the street, Emergancy stop, back into
the carpark, and 1 complete circle without taking my feet of the pegs.
Then I followed her back into the office for the eyesight test and photo and
P-plate

 

You really should have left the bike outside,you know...

Postman Pat