My folks wouldn’t let me do it on my beloved ‘Dirt Tracker’, I failed for constantly doing wheelies on my ‘droppy’ and not really paying attention!

Still bitter now.

In the early 80’s on his BMX, my brother did an endo for his emergency stop. Apparently he failed for being out of control!!

Yes 3 times for showing off messing around wheelieing and going around the cones to quickly amongst other things as daft. I didn’t care. It wasn’t like you couldn’t ride if you failed. All done on my 80’s Raleigh burner.

Yes but I can’t remember why. Nothing cool like the above

Yep, I tried to be good, but my old mate Poppa Wheelie got the better of me and I sailed over the line on the back wheel of my raleigh burner and straight into a fail. My mate reminds me about it whenever I come off my MTB a mere 27 years later.

I regret nothing.

I didn’t know you could fail?

Me and my mates did get in trouble for leavit 20ft+ skid marks all over the rugby pitch.

Yeah, failed for not getting on the bike properly or safely. Didn’t bother me, nor stop me from riding to the bmx track.

I didn’t get as far as taking it, the policeman grabbed both brakes and walked casually along with no sign of any brake resistance, made me walk the bike home, never felt so despondent in my life. Nailed it second time though

I seem to remember failing. It was either the cones or lack of arm signals. I remember I rode ALL the way home with no hands after…must have been 1977 or 78.Happy Days

I wasn’t allowed to take as I had no brakes on my BMX at the time!!

@wiggles – I was surprised myself, but PC Malcom Thomas failed me and Wes for “playing silly buggers” no chance to retake it either – so by his rules I’m technically still not able to ride on the road, I mean I’ve got a Motobike license like, but pushbikes are out.

It might be why I’ve never fancied a road bike.

I was just thinking about it today 😆 I failed for getting my left and right mixed up on a turn, I remember being quite fed up about it as I virtually lived on my bike back then.
Bah

Nope i destroyed it. Could’ve been something to do with my awesomez mk1 Chopper. Seem to recall a mate took his on a tricycle lolz

Yup, totally failed. Stoppies not part of the curriculum apparently.

Reporting you all to the police. You can’t ride in this country with out a ‘Cycling Proficiency license’ Blooming foreigners coming over here and not paying road tax and eating all our swans

Grrrrrr!

I never got it offered to me.

These days it’s Bikeability and split into levels 1,2 & 3 with level 1 being playground control, level 2 basic quiet road riding passing parked cars, correct use of junctions etc.

Level 3 is big roundabouts, busy roads.

In primary schools, our company only does level 1 and 2 and they have to be really bad at riding or to be messing around not to pass level 1.

If it was pre 1985 I was expelled from everything…turned out awesome though so **** em.

Which level are manuals and tail whips?

I didn’t have a bike so I did it on foot.. 😀

Turned right when supposed to turn left. Still passed and that sense of direction is still with me.

no, nailed it on the grifter. triangle badge and that!

Got told off for taking the “cycle as slow as you can” literally…

Don’t think they’d introduced it when I was a kid 😳

Don’t think they’d introduced it when I was a kid

How old are you? I took & passed mine in 1957!

Yep. Back in about 1978.

I had to miss a couple of sessions due to family days out.

#### ’em.

In 1992 I failed for going round a roundabout the wrong way. My excuse was that I was preoccupied with trying to keep my feet on the pedals through the bottom of the stroke on my dads Falcon road bike.

Nope. Passed in 1964. I even got a “Knight of the Road” badge from the News of the World for being a compliant wimp. I still can’t do wheelies, theough 🙁

How do you become trained to deliver bikability is it an ASDAN course?

How old are you? I took & passed mine in 1957!

You missed the smiley!! Of course it was around when I was a kid (I’m in my 50s) but it was never offered at either of the two primary schools I attended.

Passed mine despite us kids taunting our instructor as she was an Elvis fan, and he died on one of the days we were doing it.

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Which level are manuals and tail whips?

Level ?.

I never got to take it either, I had a US-import Huffy (American dad) with a coaster brake an no front. ‘The Man’ didn’t like that, even though I could jump down the most steps at the primary school.

Nope, although i think a lot failed on the road signs bit, which is unsurprising,

a) we’d never been taught anything about them
b) we lived in rural wales, road signs were badly spelt in white emulsion on rotten ply. I doubt any of the kids had ever seen a no entry to cars sign!

Wasn`t allowed to take it. Not sure if it was the no mudguards or only one brake that got me excluded.. I did manage to buy an enamel badge several years later but only “the few” really knew the truth 😉
I spend my weekends checking for helmet straps an barplugs now…..

i failed in 87, can’t remember why, though probably something to do with me jumping around outside my house showing off or something (lived next to the school). rubbish really.

I borrowed my brothers bmx/earlyMTB – a strait forked, drum braked, cast alloy wheeled thing with 4 gears… except that he had broken one of the “spokes” on the wheel so it was failed. I then got my Raleigh Commando out. I have clear recall of being told off by my bitter and twisted old bag of a Primary teach for “freewheeling” as this meant I was clearly out of control. I very much doubt she had ever ridden a bike in her life. I passed anyway, just to spite her.

Yes. Failed first time. Now a BC Level 3 Mountain Bike Coach. Ha!

Low-sided on some gravel on mine doing the right-hand turn. So yes, I failed.

I wasn’t old enough. 🙁
I went along with my friend and older brother and the copper said me and my mate couldn’t do it as we weren’t old enough. I’ll take a guess and say I was 9 and you had to be 10. BUT we still did the course.

Passed, riding my Mom’s bike as my Emmelle MTB had been stolen a week before.