I saw some guys with an 1100 in full dress trying to negotiate that
impossibly small-circled figure eight!
You had to do it all without putting a foot down once. or you didn't pass.
BTW, there is a way to modulate the clutch and throttle and tip the bike
inside, while counterweighting your upper body outside to balance for that
tiny circle.  Takes lots of practice..........

Mike B.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lane" <westy_cruisin@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: teenagers and vanagons

>I took the test in Cal in 1993 and flunked on my Katana 600 !!!! The circle
>was soooo small....I mean, there is no way I would have tried to negotiate
>a circle like that in real life, certainly not without fear of failure of
>some sort. The circle is not a true test of ability since the differences
>as noted in bikes is so wide. If I had a scooter or smaller bike I could
>have passed the test without a problem, which of course validates the point
>made here. I said screw it after the thrid try and rode without the
>endorsement. An additional addendum to this...I came from Florida and was
>grandfathered in there, so no endorsement needed, CA would not accept
>it..dratz.
>
> John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > In Japan, when you get a license to
> ride a motorcycle, you're only allowed
>> to ride one at-or-below the cc's of the one you took the test
>> with.........
>
> Here in California they have 2 classes of motorcycle license, M2 for
> "149cc and less" and M1 for "all motorcycles". This apparently was
> changed from the old "one M class" way because the "riding test"
> involves riding 100 feet between two painted lines into a circle of
> two such lines, around the circle 3 times (staying between the lines),
> then back to the starting point between two lines leading from the
> circle-- all of this without touching the ground with your foot or
> going outside the lines. It seems that before the rule change, people
> would do what my father and I did: leave the VFR750, Harley, or
> GoldWing at home and take the test on a little 70cc trail bike! We
> both could've passed on the VFR, but the CT-70 was so much easier, so
> why take the risk of an stupid whoopsie...
>
>
>
> It's me
>  Where I am, there I be.
>
>
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