Quote Originally Posted by gkamer View Post
Thankfully I did not have to test on a side car, only on a Spyder. There was a young lady who had an HD trike. She stalled it out a few time during the course,.

They had told us that if you stalled out more then twice during the skill test you would have to retake the whole course over. Myself and a few others suggested to her she might want to do the skill test on a Spyder just to be sure she passed the course and she could fine tune her clutch/throttle coordination later.

She took the advice and passed the course
In the trike course I took here in Arizona in Nov there was a guy in his mid 60's 6'6" and 380 lbs that had never ridden a motorcycle. The first day at noon he had a dealer deliver a beautiful 2019 HD trike. He rode in that afternoon in the practice session and was killing the motor often on starts and having trouble shifting to second gear. The second afternoon during practice he decided to just start off in second gear.

At 4PM instructor announced that he was now an agent of the AZ DMV and would be scoring four test maneuvers for each of us and could no longer coach us. This guy did the salomon course, the braking test and the obstacle avoidance swerve. The four test was a decreasing radius corner. The guy kill the trike motor at his start and roll 20-30 feet into the test approach. Instead of looping back and starting over, he started out again and was suppose to get up to 22 mph and then brake before enter the corner to a speed that he could complete it without more braking.

Well he was going to fast at went through the cones on the high side of the corner and then was on and off the throttle repeatedly and headed to the concrete block wall(which had old tires stacked along it). He crashed into the wall at 20-25 MPH Trikes rear went way in the air and he was a few feet above the seat. He and the trike came back down on three wheels. Damage to the front fender and fairing was visible.

The instructor took us all inside and issued us are cards and was going to allow this guy to try again. So we do not know if he passed or not. There was another guy there that had his own HD trike and I told him he should stay and give this guy a ride home, as he had planned on riding it 15-20 miles across the East Valley home if he passed. He had no business being out on a city street with it!!!

This was one of the Can Am sponsored classes. I rode a brand new RTL Chrome with 5.2 miles on it when I got on it the first afternoon. I had bought our new to us 2018 RTL a week before and had been riding it around to RV Resort to become familiar with it. And did fine in the course. Last time i was on a bike was in the mid 80's when we had a 650SR Kawasaki.