Ade B
MB Enthusiast
First time car and bike.
Can't remember how old - 17 and a bit for the car, 30 something for bike.
Ade
Can't remember how old - 17 and a bit for the car, 30 something for bike.
Ade
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I passed first time and had no lessons.
I tought myself to drive in a Robin Reliant (which you can drive by yourself on L plates)
I'm sure a quick check would reveal the answer but I think you can drive a 3-wheeler at 16 years old!Is this still true?
I love the idea of a load of 17 year old kids graduating from mopeds to Robins..
I passed first time and had no lessons.
I tought myself to drive in a Robin Reliant (which you can drive by yourself on L plates)
1st time aged 17 at Didsbury test centre even though I forgot to use the handbrake on the three point turn.
I'd probably done enough to pass by performing a perfect unexpected emergency stop and later calmly pulling over to let a fire engine through.
At the end of the test the examiner held up the highway code and wasn't even looking at the pages containing the road signs he was asking me to identify.
When out on my first lesson, my instructor Ron Thurston said he would stick a pin in the back of my hand if I insisted on leaving it on the gear stick. And he did just that. Once was enough.
In those days , you had to wait a month for another appointment and I passed on my second attempt .
I do think that removing the requirement to wait a month , thereby ensuring that a candidate who failed the first test had to undertake further tuition/gain more experience , was a bad decision : nowadays , a candidate who fails a test in the morning , secures a further test later the same day and passes is not neccessarily a better driver than they were in the morning - not a good move IMHO .
1st time aged 17 at Didsbury test centre even though I forgot to use the handbrake on the three point turn.
ADI 1st time 2009
Jim.
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