Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Public Road Riding

1. Wooden plank - drive yr bike over the plank without falling off and time on plank > 6 sec
2. Figure of 8 - do a figure of 8 (you know wat's that right???!!!) around a set of 4 cones until tester is satisfied. If you hit the curb or cone, you are OUT!
3. Ribbed bridge(basically a Wooden plank with raised bumps at regular intervals) - same as Wooden plank but ya gotta stand up.
4. Slalom - weave your way through 8 cones at gear 2
5. crank course - throttle up b4 you enter and turn sharply twice to complete it under 6 sec ( the first time i did it i misjudged and flew up the kerb haha)

Emergency Brake TEST

From stop, throttle up to gear 4 and 40 km/h. Upon whistle, close throttle, engage front and rear brake.

Dismount and carry out push-start phase. Hold clutch and run with bike. After picking up speed, release clutch and continue forward movement. engine will start by itself.(COOL! :) )

Circuit TEST

ok this part is usually really easy but today all the rover and jeep drivers are out in full force so there are like 38 jeeps + 10 rovers + 30 bikes in the damn circuit. One can easily fall asleep waiting at the traffic junction. Damn, it seems easy in theory but when you are on the road, everything changes. everytime you come to a junction or intersection, you have to quickly remember the give way rules (1. vehicles going straight go first 2. vehicles from major to minor road go next 3. vehicles going left go first b4 those going right)

PUBLIC ROAD RIDING

WAH SHIOK AH! finally on the real roads. we are just moving in the bedok area but it is a whole world of difference from the stupid SAF driving circuit. Inside it is all nicely bounded and with rigid rules, out there vehicles move fast. really fast. CASE-IN-POINT : i was travelling at 50 km/h (fucking fast for the lousy SAF bike, damn thing was already vibrating and i was scared it was gonna fall apart) and zoom out from my right blind spot, this ccb car cuts into my lane. I was so shocked, i didn't even horn!(this thought will haunt me forever! the next farker who crosses the continuous white line is gonna have his eardrums burst. ya bette watch out.) As an afterthought, the idiot switched on his signal lights when he had cut in halfway. Singaporean drivers are ASSHOLES!!!! especially on the road leading to the expressway, the muthafuckers were out in full force. There was a part where our convoy of 6 gotta switch lanes or else we are headed along the PIE towards jurong but of course every vehicle in the adjacent lane is in such a hurry that we also missed the cut-off. I was the 2nd last bike and i had to force my way in to prevent a early booking out and a subsequent confinement. Can you imagine, having to squeeze into a tiny gap between a car(in front) and some fucked-up van behind while going at abt 50-60 km/h! Haha everytime when i do hand signals, my middle finger invariably pops up. 9/10 times the driver behind is a farker anyway no harm done.