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Just have fun! I had a blast. Everyone was friendly and enjoying themselves.

Oh, picking the oddball bike in a different colour makes it a lot easier to find your ride after lunch while everyone else walks up and down the line looking for their number =)
 
Don't worry too much about your M1 exit at the end of the Second day. If you have followed the instructors advice and survived up until this point in the course; you will pass ! :cool:
 
apextech said:
Don't worry too much about your M1 exit at the end of the Second day. If you have followed the instructors advice and survived up until this point in the course; you will pass ! :cool:
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That makes me feel relieved. I have no doubt I will do well :)
 
Everyone tries to get one of the cbr125's because they look the coolest of the available bikes there. I recommend skipping those and picking one of the Yamaha TW200's instead. Big comfy seat for the full two days, easy riding position, and best of all it's geared the lowest which will help you in the low-speed technical parts fo the course (makes taking the test that much easier).
 
Cat13 said:
They dont give you an option?!?! Most schools have at least two different styles.
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Humber only uses Virago's, there are a few of them that have straight bars.

Realistically what kind of different bikes a school has shouldn't matter. It's a school not a demo day......that's why dealerships have demo days. ;)
 
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Cat13 said:
They dont give you an option?!?! Most schools have at least two different styles.
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The bike is a low cruiser with enough low end grunt that you could possibly pass the test in first gear.
The option is a different handlebar if you're really tall and you ask. They had something like 120 of them when I was there. The difference between the bikes is in where the friction point is.

If you have a hodge-podge of bikes, and people switch around, could you end up on the wrong bike for doing the test?
 
Baggsy said:
If you have a hodge-podge of bikes, and people switch around, could you end up on the wrong bike for doing the test?
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If you can only pass the test on a certain style of bike then there is a bigger problem.
 
Jayv said:
Humber only uses Virago's, there are a few of them that have straight bars.

Realistically what kind of different bikes a school has shouldn't matter. It's a school not a demo day......that's why dealerships have demo days. ;)
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The cruisers for example sometimes equals the student having a more difficult time steering as the weight sits differently. And some people get mentally caught up in the bike style vs what they want.
Plus we like to get people to try different bikes to show them how the bikes feel and illustraite how its the same skills applied to different bikes. It allows us to explain fuel infected vs carb and to see how the different bikes start cold knife vs knife, and how long they warm us etc.

Baggsy said:
If you have a hodge-podge of bikes, and people switch around, could you end up on the wrong bike for doing the test?
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This is why we say day 1, try them all. Get a feel and find one you like most. Day 2 pick one and stay on that particular bike. Even different cbr125s can feel different.

Jayv said:
If you can only pass the test on a certain style of bike then there is a bigger problem.
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Agreed but theres also a confidence thing which is why we offer the street proofing free to students. Allows them to start riding but with instructors on the streets with them to help them start off.
 
Cat13 said:
Agreed but theres also a confidence thing which is why we offer the street proofing free to students. Allows them to start riding but with instructors on the streets with them to help them start off.
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That's a nice touch your riding school offers.

But i'm going to get into a one school vs another school internet battle, beside's Humber has ice cream truck that visits in the afternoon so that obviously makes it a better school ;)

But i stand by what i posted earlier.
 
Jayv said:
But i'm going to get into a one school vs another school internet battle
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Im not going to get into that battle. I am friends with instructors with other schools and honestly the difference between them all is teaching style. We all learn differently the variety is needed.
 
Cat13 said:
Im not going to get into that battle. I am friends with instructors with other schools and honestly the difference between them all is teaching style. We all learn differently the variety is needed.
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Then perhaps you should stop the L/C flag waving when someone has signed up with a different school than yours.
 
Jayv said:
Then perhaps you should stop the L/C flag waving when someone has signed up with a different school than yours.
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Of course I am biased. But what I care about most is that people walk away knowing all they need to ride safe and walk away after having a great weekend. If you wish to continue to be confrontational, shall I suggest we move this to PM?
 
Jayv said:
If you can only pass the test on a certain style of bike then there is a bigger problem.
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Cat13 said:
Agreed but theres also a confidence thing which is why we offer the street proofing free to students. Allows them to start riding but with instructors on the streets with them to help them start off.
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I'm sure we could find a bike for you to fail first time you ride it.
Once you got used to it, I'm sure you'd pass. Shouldn't we give beginners longer to get used to a bike?

Can I pick a bike the someone else is riding to do the test on?
How do you settle bike disputes?
 
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I did my m1 exit at humber. They told me that it doesnt matter what gear your in as long as you do each test in the time alotted.

I did everything in first gear and still got the 'fastest' times in my class for each test.

those little viragos were pretty good to learn on
 
Two things to help with the test: get the hang of the friction point on the clutch and make sure that your speed is sufficient on the timed runs. You don't get feedback if you're slow just points added to your total.
If someone slow or hesitant goes first in a group it can sometimes throw off the whole group.
 
Looks like it will be cold. I'm also doing mine next weekend.
 
First day when I took it I had never ridden a bike before - tried all of the different ones.

2nd day just stuck with the CBR, was a lot smoother once I didn't have to relearn things over and over ( which was confusing considering it was all from stratch to begin with )

Took the course with RTI.
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