Has anyone here gotten their license via road test?

[HungPower]

Just wondering, is the road test for motorcycle basically the same as the basic rider course test? Figure 8's, quick stop, etc? Or do they have you do more stuff? Just curious

[Gadjet]

I got mine by doing a road test. Involved riding along in traffic ahead of the tester, who gave me directions through an FRS radio (I had an earpiece in). Went through a some normal riding in traffic, turns, signalling, stopping/parking, and a hill stop/start.

Almost none of the excersizes from the lot test were included.

[Yngvai X]

Well I will be taking mine soon. and here it sounds like they do the same thing in the BRC.

They have to pass everything without going over 10 points. or if you go over that then you fail. but they have to..

1. Accelerate up to 12-20 mph and stop within the 12-20 mph marks.
2. Go inside and outside of cones and then come back and do a U-turn without dropping the bike.
3. Accelerate from a certain point (were the instructer says) and theres a painted L looking on the ground were they have to turn in, without going outside of the L lines.

and theres a few other things that they did, but i dont remember all of it.. as my mind was set on talking to the guy with a hayabusa taking the test.

[Inquizator]

I witnessed a motorcycle test being taken last week when I went to get my motorcycle endorsement on my license. It was rediculous. The guy just had to do the "slow race" friction zone exercise for about 30 feet between two lines. Then did a huge sweeping turn around the parking lot, and lined himself up with another set of lines next to the previous two. Then he got going, shifted to second, and then came to a slow, smooth stop at a single line perpendicular to his direction of travel. He didn't even shift to first when he stopped... He then proceeded to go inside with the lady who observed him and he got his paperwork to go get his endorsement! I couldn't believe how easy that was. This was in Kansas City, Missouri by the way...

[HungPower]

Oh I c. I actually don't know anyone who has a Motorcycle license, so we were gonna put it into a van and drive it to the road test site lol. I mean it's not actually a trailer but I'm hoping that they'll allow it which I think they would. I've transported the motorcycle that way before =\

[CajunBass]

In Virginia you don't take a "road test" but they have a course that's pretty similar to the BRC. In some respects it's harder, or at least the instructor at the BRC told our class, "No one can pass the DMV test."

The course is layed out in the parking lot. There is a start point, with a straight run between lines, followed by a left hand turn inside the lines, then back up to the opposite side of the test area and stop with your wheel inside a painted box. Harder than you migh think. The tendency is to stop short of the box. Nope. It has to be IN the box.

You then turn around and run through the cones. The cones are 10 feet apart with a 2 foot offset. There are five of them. You come out of the cones and then go straight into the U turn in the box. I want to say it's 20 feet for 400 cc and under, and 22 feet for over 400 cc. (I may be wrong on those.)

Then there is a panic stop. You acclerate until you cross a line, then stop as fast as you can.

Then you have to do the same thing, except this time you have to maneuver around an obstacle and stop.

You can lose up to ten points and still pass.

It took me two tries to pass mine. The test site was "unique" to say the least. At both ends there was a brick wall staring at you if you happened to mess up really bad. On top of that the parking lot had a slope to it, so all the stuff I practiced, and had down pat went out the window. I was faster on the downhill portion, and slower on the uphill. The lady who gave me the test said, "We've been told this is the hardest place in the state to take this." I'll bet.

[storysunfolding]

In Virginia you don't take a "road test" but they have a course that's pretty similar to the BRC. In some respects it's harder, or at least the instructor at the BRC told our class, "No one can pass the DMV test."

Yeah... passed it first try, no points off. I think it's a bit harder than the BRC test, but at the same time, if you practiced it for 15 hours before you took the test like the brc I'm sure it wouldn't be all that hard. There's a link to the exercise herehttp://www.dmv.virginia.gov/webdoc/pdf/dmv34.pdf.

The distance for the uturn is 13 feet for under 500 and 15 feet for over 500cc. The hard part is that you have to stay between two lines to start the uturn and your front wheel can't touch the line on your right before it ends, or touch the line running perpendicular to your line of travel at the end.

There is no road riding portion, but in that sense it's like the BRC.
"Hey! You did great in a parking lot! Now go try things we told you about unsupervised in traffic! Good Luck!"

[Candy750]

NY - took hubby and a friend to DMV (I took BRC)

Hubby's was in torrential rain, and he had to turn onto a main street, go to stop sign, make a right, make a left...On a side street, he had the two lanes to do 2 left and 2 right circles, 2 figure 8's. Back up a steep hill, left turn with an incline and back. He passed.

Friend - only had to make circles and 8's in the DMV lot, out onto the street, two rights, turnaround, and back to parking lot.

Same DMV office!! Hubby's was alot more and it was POURING!

I was in the jeep withthe inspecctor. One beep left, two beeps right, three beeps they pull over.

YES - I had my license before these guys - they only got it 'caue they got tickets.

[Meanie]

Michigan's test is the same course as the MFS course. If you pass the Michigan MSF course, you automatically obtain your license. If you do not take the MSF course, you are required to take the written test and the course test in a parking lot.

I took the parking lot course test many years ago, before the MSF courses began.

[WyoSemRider]

In NJ the DMV test includes the offset cones (which I still can't do) but if we pass the MSF course, we get our drivers license endorsed, so I took the MSF course. However in NJ you can take the DMV test on a scooter so it's much easier than using even a small bike (if I'd have known this before I took the MSF course, that's the route I'd have taken, but I'm glad I took the MSF course because it helped lot).