jasterm wrote:PASS! Wow. What a feeling. I rode by a cop this morning and actually waved.

So I can confirm that the tester told me if in the process of doing the circles and 8's and a car rolls by, you can stop and place your foot on the ground without penalty. You pick up from where you left off. One thing that was not clarified to me however, was that in the process of doing your circles and 8's, the maneuvers are to be done continuously. For some reason, I read some of the posts as; do three circles, pull over to the curb and stop. do another three circles, pull over to the curb and stop. Do your 8's. This however, is not the case. Not a big deal, but for clarification purposes, these maneuvers are to be done one after another w/out stopping.

While I was doing my 8's, a car actually turned onto the street. I saw it coming and just held motion w/out putting my foot down. (Didn't want to take any chances). The road test portion was fine. I was careful not to cut my left turns, so made my turns intentionally wider to make it a point. However, I got docked to the other way a few points for going too wide. I suppose you should be wary of both extremes and make your turns "just right".

Also, the MSS instructor that I hired to be my chase car for the exam mentioned that speeds should be kept around 20 mph for the test. I thought that was great information to know. At one point in the road test, I caught a yellow light that was so perfectly timed it made me hesitate. I made the nervous decision to abruptly stop, even though I had already crossed the white line and had to back peddle a bit. I figured it would be safer than accelerating across the intersection to "beat the light". When I asked the instructor about it after recieving my temp license, he said I did fine.

tkchunc wrote:So how do you make a circle on the left side, and then magically do a circle to the left without stopping and putting your foot down? that seems to require some sort of 360 turn, or a hybrid 8-figure?

I don't understand the transition from circle, to circle, to 8-figure.

Stan wrote:Make your figure 8s as large as possible. People tend to start out to small and make them tighter and tighter which could become a problem.