exam's tommorow. european one, driving in traffic + 8 exercises in a lot! kinda nervous, i'm not doing them flawlessly, especially the 3m slalom and low-speed tight turn. but fuck it.

can't wait to ride a sv650. i'd get something more powerful but i have zero motorcycle experience. best choice, and they're cheap as fuck.

godspeed anon. I believe in you.

I think pretty much everybody struggles with the slalom. Only maybe 2 out of 12 people nailed it during my test, I barely clipped a cone myself and that was the second try, after practicing at home for a month (set up my own cones and everything) because I failed the test the first time.

>>28505755 (OP)
Great choice, that's probably the best bike ever made

>can't do the basics
>gets a huge heavy bike to do slow maneuvers on a test
KEK

>>28505755 (OP)
>bike exam tomorrow
kys tonight

>>28506530
is this a joke or? sv650 is a light bike.. that's the joke or....? it's A category so it's literally impossible to do it with a weaker and more agile bike. anyways, i don't even have a sv650 yet. the school rented me the bike i was learning with, which was a mt07. fgt

good luck, anon
you might be nervous but remember to stay loose and the bike will want to stay upright
remember to use the "friction zone" (ride/slip the clutch)

also dont worry about not getting a bigger bike. i have a 650 and don't want to upgrade. i just don't do enough highway riding to justify it. rather, i ride my smaller bikes more often because it is more fun to push the bike super hard through every gear and not end up going twice the speed limit. 650 is plenty.

>>28505755 (OP)
took my (euro) exam last year and was in a similar position as yourself. i almost dropped the bike at my last figure eight and during the road test, when stopping, I almost fell in the parking lot with the instructor as pillion.
be calm, don't worry much over small (or large!) mistakes, recover, continue as nothing happened and you'll pass!

I failed the euro closed circuit exam 6 times, mainly because I get to nervous, I had no problems with the traffic one tho.

>>28511058
I used a bit of propanolol to get my hand to relax, worked wonders

>>28511053
wait euros have the instructors ride pillon?

>>28513900
at least in my country yeah, you take the road exam with the instructor pillion and the police examiner follows you in a car. mine was some 100kg beast versus my 70kg wet.

>>28514763
That sounds really stupid, I had my instructor and the examiner behind me in a car keeping contact with an intercom. For the practices, it was just my instructor behind me in a car, in some places the instructor is also on a bike.

>>28509042
>still can't do the basics
fgt lol