DMV SKILL TEST

ALL of you guys that did the motorcycle safety class to get you license
could never pass the skill test on your own bikes thats why you all take the
class and give an extra $100.00 to the state for the right to have a
motorcycle license.Just what the state wants.That makes the skill test even
less skillfull.
__________________________________________________________________ Michael
Glover ICQ#: 23283543 Current ICQ status: + More ways to contact me
__________________________________________________________________

 

You are aware that the skills test for the MSF course is more difficult
than the DMV one, right? More relevent too.

 

And if you get your head out of your ass, you just might lean something
there too.

 

Huh?
Please translate to a known language.

 

Hmmn. Sounds like somebody bought a Harley as a first bike
and failed the circle test...

The DMV skill test is a very minimal test of skills. If you
can't pass it on your own, perhaps the MSF *course* may teach
you something useful about riding a bike?

-- Michael

 

Wasn't that you that posted:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...rkn52ir1ntj7r50l3cumqkb%40news.lmi.net&rnum=4
Hehehe_

 

I signed up for the class for a number of reasons but two days after I
completed it, a car popped out of a driveway (hidden by a truck) right
in front of me blocking my lane as a van was approaching in the
on-coming lane. With no room to stop, I swerved around the car and back
into my lane - neatly avoiding both hazards. Then I pulled into a gas
station to change my shorts and I realized the class paid for itself.

Of course now that I tell that story, $100 sounds like a rip-off just to
learn how to swerve safely ... I mean chicks dig guys in wheelchairs,
don't they?

 

Oh now, that's TOO funny! A guy on a big-ass Harley throws a temper
tantrum cuz he couldn't pass the driving test on his own bike!

Well, Michael, how long have you had that thing, and how long have you
been riding? Not long enough, evidently. If you were an experienced
rider, you'd know how important the safety course is. Driving skills are
acquired by long experience, and your attitude demonstrates a lack of
awareness. It's people like you who really NEED the safety course,
because you clearly overestimate your own ability, and that is a very
dangerous attitude to hold. In fact, it will kill or maim you some day.
I am not exaggerating, get your head straight, or you are going to die!

You are going to get into an unexpected situation, and you'll sit there
like a drooling idiot watching it unfold in slow motion. And I bet you
wear a wee little beanie helmet like the rest of the Harley profile
riders, don't you!

One thing a motorcycle can teach you; arrogant and ignorant is no way to
go through life! Unfortunately, the lesson is usually fatal.

barbz
riding since 1976

 

which, I'll bet, a skilled river COULD it make around the DMV circle in,
albeit not terribly gracefully.

btw, they don't flunk you for not quite staying inside the line on a big
bike, they flunk you for not showing smooth control over your machine,
wobbling, putting a foot down, that sort of thing. I passed it on a big
sport-touring BMW, which isn't known for tight turning circles either.

 

I suspect he failed the DMV test and doesn't want to pay to take the MSF
test. After buying a Hardley Ableson Heritage Softail, what's another $100?

barbz

 

I'll have to admit I never tried it on a Harley, but I did take it on
my Guzzi 850 T-3 with oversized handlebars. Negotiating the circle
required that I sit back on the passenger seat, and steer one handed,
but I managed it -- after having taken the MSF course.

Yeah, but it's not a cruiser, nor was rattletrap (my guzzi).

All in all, I'd say the original poster sounds as if he's "riding for
a fall" -- or maybe "cruising for a bruising..."

Al Moore
DoD 734

 

About $90 more than he's got left, after buying the leather vest,
beanie helmet, and miscellaneous H-D Logo accessories...

Al Moore
DoD 734

 

You got the idea. There's so much poser potential there that you
wonder how he ever found the time or the inclination to get himself to
the DMV for the test!

Al Moore
DoD 734

 

I thought it said "troll" ;-}
R, UB

 

Well, that too...<G> But far be it for me to pass up an opportunity to
exercise my creative writing skills! lol...

barbz

 

Go buy one then.

 

Sometimes its hard to contain oneself - like the classic Webtv user who
can't unlock the caps. You have the harley RUBs who wonder if it's ok
to to subject their ride to the fog. Around here we I think we do have
more of the squid cliches instead - you need to go to LA to see the
faux hog riders en masse.

and yes, buying a 700lb Harley as your first bike and trying to
pass the DMV test on it will subject you to ridicule. It can be
done, but there are better routes.

 

I have 2 neighbors that ride HDs. They turn their backs to me when I
ride by and ignore my repeated waves.

I guess I should just stop and ask them if they want to ride with me?

I think barbz kinda like me, we are not hostile, we just like winding
people up.

 

There are people like this in all groups.. I've met Honda people like
this. On the other hand I go to the local Harley event once a year and
have a blast looking at the bikes.. When the Harley people find out I
ride a suzi they never treat me any different, they just dig the fact I
like their ride.

This is a good idea.. Make the approach.

Ya, I guess

-Steve

 

Actually, thinking back, it doesn't help that we have all these assholes
with straight pipes riding through residential neighborhoods at 1am,
revving the engines high. (for better or worse, I live near several
bars on 24th st)

No other bike segment has bought into the loud pipes BS to the same degree.
Maybe there's one good benefit out of the EPA's interest in prohibiting
non OEM exhaust systems.