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<blockquote data-quote="timetraveller" data-source="post: 129991" data-attributes="member: 456"><p>Same kind of story here. I had been riding my Vin twin on L plates for years and they were about to bring in a rule that learners were limited to a small capacity bike. I booked the test but was doing a job of some sort on my own bike on the day of the test and so borrowed a twin belonging to local member, Paul Champion, who still speaks to me. After all the usual stuff the examiner asked me to ride round a series of streets which formed a loop and told me that at some stage he would step out from the pavement and get me to do an emergency stop. I went round the loop about four or five times with the examiner starting to step of the pavement as I want passed and then stepping back. On the next circuit he stepped right out into the road at the last minute and it really was an emergency stop. The road was freshly gravelled and about an inch thick in loose chippings. I and the bike went down and as I stood up I started to tell him exactly what I thought of him and set off towards him with what must have been a gleam in my eye. He retreated rapidly, waving his arms about and shouting "its all right you passed, you passed". Paul's bike had a slight mark on the exhaust pipe, but as I said, he still speaks to me, generally in quite friendly terms.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timetraveller, post: 129991, member: 456"] Same kind of story here. I had been riding my Vin twin on L plates for years and they were about to bring in a rule that learners were limited to a small capacity bike. I booked the test but was doing a job of some sort on my own bike on the day of the test and so borrowed a twin belonging to local member, Paul Champion, who still speaks to me. After all the usual stuff the examiner asked me to ride round a series of streets which formed a loop and told me that at some stage he would step out from the pavement and get me to do an emergency stop. I went round the loop about four or five times with the examiner starting to step of the pavement as I want passed and then stepping back. On the next circuit he stepped right out into the road at the last minute and it really was an emergency stop. The road was freshly gravelled and about an inch thick in loose chippings. I and the bike went down and as I stood up I started to tell him exactly what I thought of him and set off towards him with what must have been a gleam in my eye. He retreated rapidly, waving his arms about and shouting "its all right you passed, you passed". Paul's bike had a slight mark on the exhaust pipe, but as I said, he still speaks to me, generally in quite friendly terms. [/QUOTE]
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