Zafira
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Hope i get to pass my test b4 this lot comes into action....
It's Coming!
The New DSA Motorcycle Test
Riders will need to:
ü Wheel the bike backwards
ü Perform a figure of eight
ü Perform a 50Kph "at speed" corner
ü Perform a 50 Kph Swerve
ü Perform a 50 Kph Emergency breaking exercise
ü Slow riding exercise (very slow)
The New DSA practical test is looming up for 2008. Involving 50kph swerve, 50kph emergency braking and slow ride, the test has to be conducted at purpose built multi million pound test centres.
The DSA are sweeping away all the "little" test centres that bikers currently use and have opted to build a small chain of vast, tarmaced, multi-vehicle testing centres for HGV, Busses and us Bikers!
What this means is that instead of the 120 test centres serving the UK, we will have just 12 by the start of 2008 and no more than 20 by the time the test fully kicks in - that’s for the whole of the UK!.
The new test will be far longer and involve using a large tarmac area to build the bike up to a minimum of 50kph before cornering, swerving and also braking. Checks on walking the bike backwards, figures of 8, slow riding and general control are made. Candidates failing to get up to 50kph or not completing the off road manoeuvres will not be able to go onto the rest of the on-road test and will forfeit their test fee.
Sadly the introduction of the new test is not going as well as the training industry would hope for and some cities have no test centre local too them! For example Cambridge customers will currently have to commute to Ipswich on test day unless the government can find land to build a test centre.
Anticipated costs for the test are estimated to rise from the current £60 to £140 - and allow a full day with an instructor accompanying you as this is a legal requirement for 500cc DAS testing.
Our advice - book now before the law changes and prices rise. Motorcycle Rider Training Association members across the UK are stating that as of February prices will have to rise from the £700 region for a novice rider course to over £1100, in order to cope with the huge relocation costs, retraining and fees charged to trainers to provide customers with training and test. The government will require all Approved Training Bodies to either rent, purchase or otherwise provide access to 1 acre of road grade tarmac for new riders to practice their mock tests before presenting on the actual test day – as you can imagine that’s not going to be cheap by any stretch of the imagination.
The New Avoidance test or as it is sometimes known the “Moose Test” was brought in as part of European Union testing harmonisation. Non biking bureaucrats in Brussels dreamt up the idea that each nation should have its most stringent part of local testing added to a new Super Euro Test for bikers. A kind of homogenisation of each states best bits.
Scandinavian drivers can face the perils of grazing moose taking a nibble of moss or even a nap in the middle of their northernmost roads – and hence all drivers and riders are required to demonstrate the ability to dodge dozing lichen nibblers.
Somewhere along the line the thin grip on reality was lost, as Nation States agreed that all countries bikers needed this to be tested off road, and thus came up with ever increasingly delirious ways of spending our taxes.
The UK’s trump card was to scrap our local test centres that are close to where people live and work – and instead ask for £500,000,000 to build a handful of rural mega centres. We can all rest assure that the Elk, Moose and Caribou are breathing a collective sigh of relief, freed from the threat of being flattened by British bikers, straying untested in swerving ability, into their grazing grounds.
It's Coming!
The New DSA Motorcycle Test
Riders will need to:
ü Wheel the bike backwards
ü Perform a figure of eight
ü Perform a 50Kph "at speed" corner
ü Perform a 50 Kph Swerve
ü Perform a 50 Kph Emergency breaking exercise
ü Slow riding exercise (very slow)
The New DSA practical test is looming up for 2008. Involving 50kph swerve, 50kph emergency braking and slow ride, the test has to be conducted at purpose built multi million pound test centres.
The DSA are sweeping away all the "little" test centres that bikers currently use and have opted to build a small chain of vast, tarmaced, multi-vehicle testing centres for HGV, Busses and us Bikers!
What this means is that instead of the 120 test centres serving the UK, we will have just 12 by the start of 2008 and no more than 20 by the time the test fully kicks in - that’s for the whole of the UK!.
The new test will be far longer and involve using a large tarmac area to build the bike up to a minimum of 50kph before cornering, swerving and also braking. Checks on walking the bike backwards, figures of 8, slow riding and general control are made. Candidates failing to get up to 50kph or not completing the off road manoeuvres will not be able to go onto the rest of the on-road test and will forfeit their test fee.
Sadly the introduction of the new test is not going as well as the training industry would hope for and some cities have no test centre local too them! For example Cambridge customers will currently have to commute to Ipswich on test day unless the government can find land to build a test centre.
Anticipated costs for the test are estimated to rise from the current £60 to £140 - and allow a full day with an instructor accompanying you as this is a legal requirement for 500cc DAS testing.
Our advice - book now before the law changes and prices rise. Motorcycle Rider Training Association members across the UK are stating that as of February prices will have to rise from the £700 region for a novice rider course to over £1100, in order to cope with the huge relocation costs, retraining and fees charged to trainers to provide customers with training and test. The government will require all Approved Training Bodies to either rent, purchase or otherwise provide access to 1 acre of road grade tarmac for new riders to practice their mock tests before presenting on the actual test day – as you can imagine that’s not going to be cheap by any stretch of the imagination.
The New Avoidance test or as it is sometimes known the “Moose Test” was brought in as part of European Union testing harmonisation. Non biking bureaucrats in Brussels dreamt up the idea that each nation should have its most stringent part of local testing added to a new Super Euro Test for bikers. A kind of homogenisation of each states best bits.
Scandinavian drivers can face the perils of grazing moose taking a nibble of moss or even a nap in the middle of their northernmost roads – and hence all drivers and riders are required to demonstrate the ability to dodge dozing lichen nibblers.
Somewhere along the line the thin grip on reality was lost, as Nation States agreed that all countries bikers needed this to be tested off road, and thus came up with ever increasingly delirious ways of spending our taxes.
The UK’s trump card was to scrap our local test centres that are close to where people live and work – and instead ask for £500,000,000 to build a handful of rural mega centres. We can all rest assure that the Elk, Moose and Caribou are breathing a collective sigh of relief, freed from the threat of being flattened by British bikers, straying untested in swerving ability, into their grazing grounds.
or are we going to be converted from MPH to KPH on the 1st of Jan 2008?
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i dont think so!
