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Originally Posted by RabidRat
Just got my full Class 6 yesterday!! =D
Almost failed.. took three tries to do a U-turn hahaha. The street they picked was frickin narrow, I should've taken out a sherpa but got lazy and just took my 600.
Other than that, I thought it went well. Yeah it was raining, yeah it was Richmond, and yeah he kinda screwed me by taking me to a highway onramp marked Construction Zone - 20kph the whole way, and then suddenly 100kph traffic.. lol. It ended kinda early though and I never had to parallel park so I figured I'd failed. At the end he asked me to pick any spot in the ICBC parking lot and back in, and of course I picked the one spot that was on an incline - he looked like he had fun watching me struggle with that one  .
I shut my bike off and started taking off my gloves but he motioned for me to keep them on. So by that point I was preeetty sure I'd failed. He put down the clipboard upside down, breathed deep, and sighed like he was all disappointed, and started talking about how I really needed to continue practicing low speed maneuvers, especially U-turns. Gave me this speech on how he'd been riding for 25 years and how it was really important to be able to control your bike at low speeds etc.
And then, flips the clipboard over - "Congratulations you passed."
... fucking troll |
Congrats...it took me 3 tries to finally pass the road test. First time, I had a brain cramp and either forgot to do shoulder checks or didn't turn my head far enough. Second time, the examiner said I took too long to get up to speed and basically didn't look confident on the bike. So I went riding every chance I could for the summer and finally passed on my third try. Practice in this case does make perfect.
I was worried about u-turns too lol...especially with a 600cc sportbike. I practiced them religiously before my last road test.