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TRUE! ACCOUNTS OF INCIDENTS/ACCIDENTS
02/Jan/2001 Failing My Test
I think I must have been tempting fate with
my previous entries. Well I failed the test properly this time. Not using the
old "life saver glance" and causing an obstruction at the traffic
lights were what was ticked off on. Well basically now I'm going on a
motorbike trip across Asia and Europe without a motorbike licence. I'm sure I
can probably buy! one in India when I get there. The other two lads have their
test today(04/01/2001) so they had better pass. It wont be too hard to hide
one person with no licence but if all three of us fail????. Just In: Brian
failed and Kevin passed!!!!.
Nov??2000 Not Failing Our Tests
Kevin was the first to sit his motorbike
driving test. The set up for the test is that the driving instructor follows
you around a set circuit in a car and observes your driving. YOu drive around
the circuit a few times then the instructor stops you so you can do your
u-turn etc.. Kevin was given! his directions and headed off. He proceeded to
drive around what he understood to be the circuit. The only problem was that
the instructor was driving around a different route looking for Kevin.
Basically they drove around different circles for 3/4 of an hour before giving
up. Kevin says he was "given the wrong directions"????
I sat my test two weeks later. I had just
bought the bike so I did not have the change of ownership forms. Without these
I could not update the Tax. I got a letter from the gardai stating same. I
arrived at the test centre early checked the bike out and headed in. I sat the
oral part of the trest an passed that without any problems. I had only
been driving a motorbike for a week (I applied for the test before I even
started driving a bike and only bought a bike a week before the test) but I
was pretty confident I could pass it. Having passed the oral I was even more
confident. I sat on the bike ready to go when yer man asked me for the Tax
disc. I confidently gave him the letter from the cops. "This wont
do". I argued but I knew I was wasting my time he was one of these letter
of the law people. I could have cried, so close.
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