Another car tax question........

I got 34/35 for the bike test - but I'm confused. The one I got wrong was what to do when broken down in a tunnel. I answered to stay with the vehicle and await the police, but the correct answer was to turn on hazard lights and get help. I've never owned a bike with hazard lights :(

"Dave Larrington" typed

As a psyclist, you ought to xabj as these are often part of cycle farcilities. Two can (toucan, geddit?) cross at the same time, psyclists and ped strains. There are no bleeps, nor flashing amber, iffn I unforget right.

These delightful inventopns are guaranteed to put aimless pedstrains into the path af careful psyclists lawfully hfvat the farcility.

With a puffin crossing the ped strain lights are on the same side of the street, not opposite or sumpfink.

Ar, those. They only one I ever use is the one at Tottingham Hale iffn I've been obliged to goto B&Q or Halfrauds, as the altourniquet is a half-mile detour around a one-way system full of chavs.

Jbexen of Stan, the lot of 'em.

The message from Danny contains these words:

I've owned (really) dozens of bikes, and none has had hazard lights. (Mine dew, only three have had winking indicators - Triumph Trophy, TSX, and BMW R80.)

That's what my CBT instructor told me umpteen fortnights ago. Mined ewe the place was closed down shortly after I did mine.

On or around Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:47:48 GMT, Guy King enlightened us thusly:

I found that. If your buttons and 3D objects are a pale colour, it don;t work. For some reason, the button text is white, rather than picking up the system colour for it.

change to a darker scheme, it works fine. I conclude it was written by someone who uses a dark windows colour set. Might get tuits to tell 'em this.

On or around Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:57:41 +0000, Danny enlightened us thusly:

I got that one wrong as well, and my bike also doesn't have hazards, partly cos it hasn't got indicators...

On or around Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:07:40 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades enlightened us thusly:

I think the arjfangled ones have 'em, prolly some sort of law about it.

In article , Peter Thomas writes

I think I once came across one that was pedestrians and horse riders.

Adrian

On or around Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:47:48 GMT, Guy King enlightened us thusly:

In internet exploder it has pretty dark blue buttons with white text. why it can't just pick up the button colours from the machine eludes me.

None of my modern bikes have had them - Honda Blackbird etc etc. (latest one is 3 years old).

Got 20/35 on the lorry test though, not bad since I've no idea about lorry laws.

Also doesn't work in Mozilla. I answered all the questions and then got them all wrong since it wouldn't save the answer for any question...did it twice to no avail then tried IE...

On or around Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:11:52 +0000, Danny enlightened us thusly:

On or around Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:13:06 +0000, Danny enlightened us thusly:

works in Mozilla here, apart from the button text issue already mentioned.

Yes Toucan crossing comes from two can cross and Puffin crossing comes from Pedestrian User Friendly crossing. I was told this by people who designed them.

It's all these Toucan crossings, and tram signs (we have none of them around here) that got me.

I passed on the Car 2, but just failed on Car1.

I haven't had my leg over a bike for ... ooh - lotsa fortnights, but might have a go on the bike theory test..

It has to be said that I only came off the bike a couple of times; once on a lot of loose gravel in front of a few people I was training in a "Star Rider" scheme. Embarrassing. Actually I didn't quite leave the bike then; just a fair bit of damage to the fairing of the K100RS.

In message , " snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.co.uk" writes

Oddly, there's what they proudly called an 'arj toucan crossing' in Well-in-Garding Cittie, which crosses a road bounded by abezny pavements only (no psychle trax or shared pavements). I wonder if they are quietly encouraging psychlisten to take over the pavement, as they seem to be qbvat anyroadup in most towns?

My experience of UK government websites is that if you're not using IE you might as well f*ck off into the outer darkness.

On or around Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:48:14 +0000 (GMT), snipped-for-privacy@zhochaka.demon.co.uk ("David G. Bell") enlightened us thusly:

what beats me is how IE gets away with being such a pile of jnax.