DodgeRover wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 12:53 pm
Warren t claim wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 11:53 pm
I bet this isn't restricted anymore.
It may well be restricted again for the first few weeks after he gets on the road, I managed to get in trouble on my 30mph on a good day 50cc let alone 50+mph.
We went out on push bikes earlier in the week for me to give him a lesson about road positioning and knowing what is happening around you, observations and life savers etc. I was not a popular dad.
Honestly, instructors really don't want biker dads teaching their lads pre CBT. I remember teaching a lad classroom theory about turns and he started questioning me on procedures. His dad, someone who did a DAS course sometime in the mid 90s, drummed into him O.I.L.S, Observation, indication, lifesaver, and steer. The lad didn't believe me when I said that nowadays we teach O.S.M.P.S.L. Observation, maneuver, position, speed and lifesaver.
Another time I was driving behind a dad and lad, dad on an 1100 Zephyr and lad on a CBR125, around a reasonably tricky roundabout. Dad seemed to be giving his lad some (hopefully) post CBT instruction using the "just do whatever I do" tried and tested* method of instruction. Both of them were lucky not to get wiped out by an NHS logistics wagon and drag. Dad was even making dickhead errors like coming to a stop and putting his right foot down rather than putting his left foot down and using the right foot to cover the rear brake. I know this seems to be standard practice with plod bikers but the DSA doesn't like it. A couple of miles later I witnessed dad showing off his balance by not putting a foot down at a junction. Normally this isn't a problem but this wasn't a give way, it was a stop sign and therefore an automatic serious/dangerous fail.
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