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I was told that you don't actually learn to ride till after you pass the test, you learn to pass the test before that.



Ahhhhh! And here Gina, I believe we have the crux of this issue here.

I think they possibly started this whole "swerve test" because too many newbies had this very same mentality. Yep! Newbies thinking: "Well, let me just get past this whole testing thing, and THEN I'd learn how to really ride a motorcycle!"

Now GRANTED, this particular "swerve test" on WET asphalt, which of course would contribute to the possibility of hydroplaning, doesn't seem to be the "brightest course" which a licensing body would require a newbie to perform. HOWEVER, I feel that the more stringent the testing newbies receive in a controlled environment BEFORE they park their posteriors upon a motorcycle seat and then hit that started button, the better...for them AND for everybody else out there on the road.

Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)