36 Years Ago Yesterday

[Dickyboy]

you just rode round the block and at some point the examiner would step out and hold up his board and you did an emergency stop and that was it!

Rumour has it an examiner stepped out in front of the wrong bike once and got flattened, I failed my first test and the examiner spent more time chatting to someone on the roadside than he did watching me ride round the block.

[Druid]

Never bothered taking a bike test until i started riding again around 1990? Seems mad to say it now, but not many of us bothered with it back in 70s & 80s? Stupid thing was it was so easy to pass back then, you just rode round the block and at some point the examiner would step out and hold up his board and you did an emergency stop and that was it!

It wasn't that easy, you had to read a numberplate and answer a couple of questions on the Highway Code as well!

[ogri]

Never bothered taking a bike test until i started riding again around 1990? Seems mad to say it now, but not many of us bothered with it back in 70s & 80s? Stupid thing was it was so easy to pass back then, you just rode round the block and at some point the examiner would step out and hold up his board and you did an emergency stop and that was it!

It wasn't that easy, you had to read a numberplate and answer a couple of questions on the Highway Code as well!

And ride next to the walking examiner without wobbling

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Never bothered taking a bike test until i started riding again around 1990? Seems mad to say it now, but not many of us bothered with it back in 70s & 80s? Stupid thing was it was so easy to pass back then, you just rode round the block and at some point the examiner would step out and hold up his board and you did an emergency stop and that was it!

It wasn't that easy, you had to read a numberplate and answer a couple of questions on the Highway Code as well!

But it didn't matter if you couldn't answer some of those, I didn't know a couple but still passed 1st time

[asmethurst99]

Nov 96 in the rain in Romford on a SR125 ......the Glamour

[Skub]

Never bothered taking a bike test until i started riding again around 1990? Seems mad to say it now, but not many of us bothered with it back in 70s & 80s? Stupid thing was it was so easy to pass back then, you just rode round the block and at some point the examiner would step out and hold up his board and you did an emergency stop and that was it!

It wasn't that easy, you had to read a numberplate and answer a couple of questions on the Highway Code as well!

AND perform an emergency stop down a steep incline in the rain and on crap 70s tyres.

[Bigyin]

Never bothered taking a bike test until i started riding again around 1990? Seems mad to say it now, but not many of us bothered with it back in 70s & 80s? Stupid thing was it was so easy to pass back then, you just rode round the block and at some point the examiner would step out and hold up his board and you did an emergency stop and that was it!

It wasn't that easy, you had to read a numberplate and answer a couple of questions on the Highway Code as well!

AND perform an emergency stop down a steep incline in the rain and on crap 70s tyres.

AND for you boghoppers not be pissed when you turned up

[Skub]

It wasn't that easy, you had to read a numberplate and answer a couple of questions on the Highway Code as well!

AND perform an emergency stop down a steep incline in the rain and on crap 70s tyres.

AND for you boghoppers not be pissed when you turned up

Back then that didn't even apply to racing.

[Scotsrich]

I had a car before I had a bike.

My old man had a bad accident on a bike when he was young and was left with one leg shorter than the other. So you can imagine bikes weren't too popular in my household.

I passed the car test when I was 17, got a KH250 when I was 19, decided that wasn't quick enough so bought and passed my test about a year later on an R̶D̶4̶0̶0̶ RD250

[Yorick]

I had a car before I had a bike.

My old man had a bad accident on a bike when he was young and was left with one leg shorter than the other. So you can imagine bikes weren't too popular in my household.

I passed the car test when I was 17, got a KH250 when I was 19, decided that wasn't quick enough so bought and passed my test about a year later on an R̶D̶4̶0̶0̶ RD250

I think @Bigyin did something similar.

Bloody Sweaties.

[Skub]

I had a car before I had a bike.

My old man had a bad accident on a bike when he was young and was left with one leg shorter than the other. So you can imagine bikes weren't too popular in my household.

I passed the car test when I was 17, got a KH250 when I was 19, decided that wasn't quick enough so bought and passed my test about a year later on an R̶D̶4̶0̶0̶ RD250

That was a big thing during my early years. Because learners were restricted to 250cc,lots of us cheated. I ran a Yamaha YR5 350 (pre RD) with L plates,but a mate really took the biscuit with 250 badges on a Kawasaki 750H2 triple. It was the fastest 250 around for miles.

[Horse]

It wasn't that easy, you had to read a numberplate and answer a couple of questions on the Highway Code as well!

But it didn't matter if you couldn't answer some of those, I didn't know a couple but still passed 1st time

Had an argument with my car examiner on the fourth and - potentially very - final of those questions. Passed 'tho.