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Originally Posted by RabidRat
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Yeah I wind up in Richmond almost on a daily basis so it made a lot more sense for me haha.
He took me down Cambie, making our way towards Jacombs. Looped around in a series of left and right turns at the intersections, and ducking into a couple of business parks and residential areas on the way, some of them kinda narrow with cars parked on both sides to the point that I definitely couldn't maintain 50, but he didn't seem to care.
When we got to Jacombs we just went down toward IKEA and made a left where AJR used to be, then a right to Bridgeport. Made a right again to the onramp to Knight Bridge, then over to the right, merging onto Hwy 91 down to Alderbridge. Made a left onto Garden City, then a right onto Lansdowne, and this is where I figured I'd failed - there's a crosswalk right next to Kwantlen and some crazy fucker darted onto it, so I ended up coming to a stop in the middle of the intersection =/. Anyway kept going down Lansdowne and made a left into a back alley to get back to the ICBC licensing center.
That said, they prolly have tons of different routes so this might not have helped at all. Some things to keep in mind though:
-the examiner mentioned before we started that he was checking to see that when you made your right turns, do not go straight from Lane Position 3 to Lane Position 1 at the end of your turn. Instead, go from 3 to 3, shoulder check, then go back to 1. "Otherwise, you'll get smoked by wide left-turners". makes sense.
-careful with left turns not to cut too close to the inside. I came close to cutting the solid yellow line one time and even though I never touched it, he dinged me anyway.
-after turning, bring your bike back up to 50 promptly. I got marked down for "speed maintenance" at least once on my sheet because of that (they warn you of this like a million times at PRS too haha).
-remember to cancel your signals. the examiner seemed genuinely surprised that I never left mine on, made a point of saying I was "good at that" lolol
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Thanks, I hit up all the locations you mentioned just a few hours ago.
The 30km/h construction zone straight to 80km/h on the highway surprised me haha I've actually never taken that on-ramp before. Didn't know that the construction speed was in effect there.
One question that come to mind while riding was, if we're asked to pull over, we don't have to park it at 45 degrees, right? Just need to pull off to the side of the road with signal?
I'm going to go ride alongside a friend in a car to see how accurate my speedometer is before I go for the road test; my bike is 18 years old haha.