When did you pass your test and how difficult was it?

[DILLIGAFF]

From memory, shortly after my 16th birthday in 1965 !!!!!! on my Lambretta Li 150 Mk. II no less.


I am convinced that 8 years of cycling to school gave me all the road sense and confidence I needed.


I think my test was in Teddington and the only thing I needed to remember was that it was rumoured, and prolly tue, that the examiner timed you on your circuit around the block so it was standard practice to sedately drive around the corner then sit there for a few minutes before confidently returning to Mr. Clipboard.


Thinking back it was ridiculously easy as none of my riding abilities were actually tested.


Still, in my defence, the only problems I remember were SMIDSY 1) the bloke over the road reversed out of his drive and ran over my parked bike................. SMIDSY 2) A bloke in a Jag pulled out in front of me in the pissing rain, I went over his roof, he didn't stop.