MSF skills test
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:34 am
What are the exercises on the MSF skills test? If the offset weave is on there, I'm screwed.
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MSF skills test
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:41 am
If there's a big pothole or piece of debris in the road it sounds like you're screwed too then.
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:07 pm
well actually, a countersteering swerve isn't the issue ...but point taken.
Re: MSF skills test
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 1:03 pm
If I remember right the msf.org site has the manual in pdf format that has the exercises in it.UberC wrote:What are the exercises on the MSF skills test? If the offset weave is on there, I'm screwed.
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 1:23 pm
My course had 4 tests.
1) Double U turns inside a box....basically a figure 8.
2) A swerve with a correct stop.
3) A quick stop.
4) A deceleration, followed by a correct turn, inside a curved line. Followed by a correct stop.
No weaving.
1) Double U turns inside a box....basically a figure 8.
2) A swerve with a correct stop.
3) A quick stop.
4) A deceleration, followed by a correct turn, inside a curved line. Followed by a correct stop.
No weaving.
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:51 pm
Err - an offset weave is just continuous countersteering swerves. If you can done one why can't you do the other?UberC wrote:well actually, a countersteering swerve isn't the issue ...but point taken.
It's not on the MSF but if you're not comfortable doing an offset weave you're not ready for riding on the streets. Get thee to a parking lot and practice!
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:56 pm
Oh yeah I definitely know I'm not ready for the street. but the offset weave is different because it's such low speed that your actually steering like a bicycle making balance an issue for me. At least that's what it was like in my class.Nalian wrote:Err - an offset weave is just continuous countersteering swerves. If you can done one why can't you do the other?UberC wrote:well actually, a countersteering swerve isn't the issue ...but point taken.
It's not on the MSF but if you're not comfortable doing an offset weave you're not ready for riding on the streets. Get thee to a parking lot and practice!
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:03 am
Well I passed, in case anyone cares.
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:13 am
Umm. There's no "deceleration" in exercise 4 of the MSF evaluation. The cornering excercise is actually a 90 degree right turn, followed by a 135 degree right turn. BRAKING before entering the turn is required and ACCELERATION out of the turn as well. Among other things, you've got to stay within the marked boundaries.acritzer wrote:My course had 4 tests.
1) Double U turns inside a box....basically a figure 8.
2) A swerve with a correct stop.
3) A quick stop.
4) A deceleration, followed by a correct turn, inside a curved line. Followed by a correct stop.
No weaving.
P
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:59 am
Is BRAKING an MSF approved word to describe deceleration then?Lion_Lady wrote:Umm. There's no "deceleration" in exercise 4 of the MSF evaluation. The cornering excercise is actually a 90 degree right turn, followed by a 135 degree right turn. BRAKING before entering the turn is required and ACCELERATION out of the turn as well. Among other things, you've got to stay within the marked boundaries.acritzer wrote:My course had 4 tests.
1) Double U turns inside a box....basically a figure 8.
2) A swerve with a correct stop.
3) A quick stop.
4) A deceleration, followed by a correct turn, inside a curved line. Followed by a correct stop.
No weaving.
P
