Which Bike did you take your Test on? - Page 3

**Ghost** · 13 Sep 07, 01:52 PM

Honda 50 step through, which I borrowed from a mate. Then caught the bus home after giving him it back and got the Bonneville out of the garage.

Phil

**joff** · 13 Sep 07, 02:05 PM

I did my test at Xmas just gone by on a Honda 500 CBF iirc? I wouldn't buy one with my own money but it did the job.

**998gsb** · 13 Sep 07, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by MarkST

Z1300 with sidewinder and L plates.
Only joking !!
Honda cg125 in 1984. Fab little bike - would run for years on a tank of gas.
Got back from test, and promptly insured and went for a ride on my Yamaha XS1100 i'd bought from a friend and stored - mega performance with tea trolley handling.

Aha! At last someone else who remembers sidewinders!!!!!!!

**998gsb** · 13 Sep 07, 02:22 PM

Tuned Honda NS125R Stroker c. 1990

**Kes** · 13 Sep 07, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by David.Hicks

Early 80's just before the 125 law came in ...

... I did it on my 350LC which had '250' side panels on it ... the coppers never looked hard enough or knew the difference (250s had single front disk).

How I wish I still had it now

Did anyone else see the fantastic collection of 80's 2-strokes at the recent SW Motorcycle Show?

Immaculate RD500s, a brace of LCs, a couple of YPVSs, a Fizzy or two and even an AP50 ... my first bike!!

Gorgeous

Man, that is the coolest! You must have been the object of every jealous new-romantic outside the disco!

**kempy** · 13 Sep 07, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by sweetpea

A Yamaha SR125

me too...hated the thing though.

**wrs71** · 13 Sep 07, 02:34 PM

Past my test at westfield community centre in hinckley, that was in 1992, both tests bike hire and training cost £110 all in, the bike was a little blue yamaha rxs100, They still do training there and it was only because i have just read a piece in motorcycle monthly that its the largest volunteer only training school in the country and its celebrating its 30th birthday.............. probably why it cost so little to pass, how much do the riding schools charge now?

**ste996** · 13 Sep 07, 02:39 PM

Honda cg125 school bike. Wednesdaay 23-10-96. 22 years old.Bright sunny day. Brilliant.

Was just before the two part test came into force.

**David.Hicks** · 13 Sep 07, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Kes

Man, that is the coolest! You must have been the object of every jealous new-romantic outside the disco!

and I'm convinced it got me laid a few times as well

I'm just glad I passed when I did or I would have had to stick a Sidewinder on it ... and that definitely wouldn't have been cool

Hey look ... I Googled and found a picture ....

Another Jaymic design and development project was the "Sidewinder"; a leaning motorcycle sidecar that helped learner riders when the laws were changed in the UK to reduce the maximum capacity that a learner could ride to 125cc. This meant that learner riders with 250cc motorcycles would have to sell the 250cc bikes and buy a 125cc instead, unless their motorcycle was fitted with a sidecar. The patented Sidewinder would allow the motorcycle to lean into the corners and provide a normal ride feel.

**MarkST** · 13 Sep 07, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ste996

Wednesdaay 23-10-96.
Was just before the two part test came into force.

?? - Did my part one in Autumn 83 and my part two in spring 84.
Part one was going round a load of traffic cones in a school playground, and part two was the normal road test where the examiner watched from a vantage point and asked a few questions afterwards.

**NedLudd** · 13 Sep 07, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ste996

Honda cg125 school bike. Wednesdaay 23-10-96. 22 years old.Bright sunny day. Brilliant.

Was just before the two part test came into force.

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Originally Posted by MarkST

?? - Did my part one in Autumn 83 and my part two in spring 84.
Part one was going round a load of traffic cones in a school playground, and part two was the normal road test where the examiner watched from a vantage point and asked a few questions afterwards.

?? indeed. The 2-part test was introduced in 1982 and the CBT in 1990.

**MarkST** · 13 Sep 07, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by NedLudd

the CBT in 1990.

Was that Co*k and Ball Torture or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - I can never remember

**Frenchy** · 13 Sep 07, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Kes

Yam RD 250B - the original RD...wish I still had that bike now. The test was laughably easy, once round a park without falling off - mind that was nearly 200 years ago.

Easy...I was sent on a figure of 8 and went the wrong way, swung the bike round in the middle of the road and rode back the other way like mad (OK as much as you can on a CB100N) to make up the time...laughable by todays tests!