A Few Months Ago I Mentioned How The Government Forgot To Opt Out Of Metric Road Tests,

well it has come back to haunt the DSA (Driving Standards Agency) once again,

basically as I stated then because the UK Government failed to negotiate a local interpretation that would have allowed road test to take place on the roads at 30mph the people that govern the British Isles (The European Union) imposed the fact that some parts of the test must take place at 50kph, (50kph is 31.1mph), in effect all learner drivers would have to break the law to pass, so special test centers were built, off road at huge cost, a hazard avoidance manoeuvre of the new motorcycle test has now just been implemented, a new high grip road surface has been laid, the downside is that nobody at the DSA read the instructions, the new surface takes up to 18 months to obtain it's super grip surface, this resulted in four candidates who crashed on the day it was introduced, one suffered a badly broken arm, naturally the DSA, rather than admit it had dropped the ball responded by saying, the problem is due to some riders being poorly trained and denied the test itself was the issue,

so to prove a point there were 11 more accidents that happened in the next 24 days of the test, I think Barry Kenward, deputy chairman of the Driving Instructors' Democratic Union, a RoSPA driving examiner and former Class 1 police traffic officer, says it all, he claims the manoeuvre in wet conditions is inherently dangerous as riders don't have much distance to stop; after swerving, they have only 20 metres to come to a halt. "I wouldn't want to do this manoeuvre on my own motorcycle with 30 years' experience and all my training," he said.

read that again, he would not do it after 30 years of all of his training and experience, where are the Health and Safety people when you REALLY do need them?