Swerve test

Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by ginge, May 26, 2009.

  1. ginge

    ginge Guest

    Having just seen a video clip of this
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8067672.stm I can't see what the issue
    is. 31MPH missing 2 cones.. I'd say people on the road should be able
    ot manage that.

    Thoughts?
     
    ginge, May 26, 2009
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  2. ginge

    CT Guest

    Do keep up at the back.[1]

    [1] I really can't post "ginge", can I?
     
    CT, May 26, 2009
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  3. ginge

    DozynSleepy Guest

    I get the impression that bureaucracy is starting to interfere too much
    with the day to day getting on with what we, as citizens of this fair
    country, want to do in our daily life.

    On another note I liked the motorbike that runs on air link the BBC
    kindly put on the page.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8028309.stm

    Yet another link from the BBC, if anyone can explain this device which
    appears to use ultrasound magic, I'd be much obliged.

    Urbane InTech Inlet Management System
    http://www.urbaneperformance.co.uk/product/?pid=14006
     
    DozynSleepy, May 26, 2009
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  4. ginge

    platypus Guest

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    platypus, May 26, 2009
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  5. ginge

    Simon Wilson Guest

    It's all explained, in detail, here:
    http://www.urbaneperformance.co.uk/single.htm?ipg=8331
     
    Simon Wilson, May 26, 2009
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  6. ginge

    zymurgy Guest

    But really, anyone on a bike who can't gently swerve like that in a
    controlled environment and with 20 yards prior warning shouldn't be
    out on the road really.
    Ok, i'll grant you that.

    Paul.
     
    zymurgy, May 26, 2009
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  7. Grimly Curmudgeon, May 26, 2009
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  8. ginge

    DozynSleepy Guest

    I was expecting to see some poor Indian guy standing at the side of the
    road madly pumping away with his bicycle pump.
    Everyone knows it can't be real snake oil if it's cheap.
     
    DozynSleepy, May 26, 2009
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  9. Some cant even manage bends
     
    steve robinson, May 26, 2009
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  10. I really don't see what's so difficult about that. It's a fixed obstacle
    with only one way round it.

    Part of the test I had to pass for the MSF consisted of a wide path with
    two fixed obstacles in the center. You had to swerve around the obstacle
    at speed either right or left as decided by the instructor. He didn't
    give the signal which direction to swerve until you were 10 feet or so
    away from the obstacle.
     
    michael bothe, May 26, 2009
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  11. ginge

    zymurgy Guest

     
    zymurgy, May 26, 2009
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  12. Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ginge
    I've long thought that part of the car test should be driving through a
    gap between two concrete blocks, spaced a foot wider than the car's
    mirrors[1], at a minimum of 30MPH.

    Just to reassure the nervous, you're allowed one pass at a lower speed
    beforehand.

    [1] See? Generous to a fault, me. Of course the flip side of this is
    that subsequently anyone who sits looking at a gap three feet wider than
    their car because they're too nervous to go through will be dragged from
    their vehicle, neck-shot and have their corpse suspended from the
    nearest lamp post to rot "pour encourager les autres".

    Carrot and stick, carrot and stick...

    --
    Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

    I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
    change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
    go and talk to the Catholics.
     
    Wicked Uncle Nigel, May 27, 2009
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  13. ginge

    Rudy Lacchin Guest

    Good idea!

    Re judgement: I once squeezed through a gap at a crossroads in a Ford
    Escort, between the nearside kerb and a stationary car positioned in the
    middle of the junction and waiting to turn right. As I did so, I felt the
    tyre wall rub the kerb ever so slightly on one side and congratulated myself
    on missing the stationary car by such a small margin on the other.

    As I proudly surveyed the gap in my rear-view mirror, the Fiesta following
    me wasn't quite so lucky and manage to miss the kerb by a good foot.
     
    Rudy Lacchin, May 27, 2009
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    boots Guest

    Ooops.
     
    boots, May 28, 2009
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    Chris Dugan Guest

    It's a pain in the arse to do if you've not ridden for long (like me).
    Counter-steering isn't intuitive until you've got quite a few miles under
    your belt; I've stopped taking the part 1 and got a bike to practice the
    swerve and the rest of my on-road drills before attempting the test again.

    Now I'm one week and about 300 miles into owning my own bike I'm a lot
    more comfortable with counter-steering. I still don't like the test
    layout: you go round a 180 degree bend then straighten up, get up to
    32Mph then jig right or left after passing the timing gate. The only
    thing that I can see it simulating is going round a roundabout, pegging
    (somewhat) the throttle out of it then swerving through a 2m wide gateway.

    The last time I was tested I went too slow the first time round (48
    instead of 50Kph) but I cleared the cones; second time round, I checked
    my speedo and that messed up my sighting for the timing gate and
    following cones... clipped the inside cone with my foot and knocked it
    over :-(
     
    Chris Dugan, May 31, 2009
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